A Quote by Dan Poynter

If you wait for inspiration to write you're not a writer, you're a waiter.

Dan Poynter

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Dan Poynter
American - Author
September 17, 1938 - November 3, 2015

If you wait for inspiration, you're not a writer, but a waiter.

Louis L'Amour

I'm not the kind of writer that goes, 'I'm gonna write a song about sunshine,' or, 'I've just heard a phrase, so I'm gonna write that,' and then I write a song. I'll wait for inspiration to hit, and you can't depend on it.

Benji Hughes

I can't explain inspiration. A writer is either compelled to write or not. And if I waited for inspiration I wouldn't really be a writer.

Toni Morrison

When you find a waiter who is a waiter and not an actor, writer, musician or poet, you've found a jewel.

Andre Soltner

I don't believe in writer's block or waiting for inspiration. If you're a writer, you sit down and write.

Elmore Leonard

I don't write on demand - I wait for inspiration to come.

Jill Scott

I just write when the bell rings. I don't have time to wait for inspiration.

Henry Mancini

I don't wait for inspiration. I get up and write every day.

Cathy Marie Buchanan

Wait, wait, wait, wait. Don't try to write through it, to force it. Many do, but that won't work. Just wait, it will come.

Toni Morrison

Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.

Leonard Bernstein

As every writer knows... there is something mysterious about the writer's ability, on any given day, to write. When the juices are flowing, or the writer is 'hot', an invisible wall seems to fall away, and the writer moves easily and surely from one kind of reality to another... Every writer has experienced at least moments of this strange, magical state. Reading student fiction one can spot at once where the power turns on and where it turns off, where the writer writes from 'inspiration' or deep, flowing vision, and where he had to struggle along on mere intellect.

John Gardner

...she (the artist, the writer) doesn't wait for inspiration, she acts in the anticipation of its apparition.

Steven Pressfield

Keep at something even when you don't feel inspired. Don't wait for inspiration! I write a lot of songs that are terrible, in the hopes that one song that has something special comes out of it. Just stay at something, and write every day if you're writing lyrics.

Yukimi Nagano

For me, songwriting is something I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day.

Sean Lennon

For me, songwriting is something that I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day.

Sean Lennon

If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and write. If you stop, start again. Save everything that you write. If you feel blocked, write through it until you feel your creative juices flowing again. Write. Writing is what makes a writer, nothing more and nothing less.

Anne Rice

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