Top 1200 Inspiration To Write Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I used to live with J.D. Souther, and I would watch him write. He's be sitting, he'd say something, and then he'd write it down. That's craft.

When I got my first publishing deal, I felt some responsibility to try to write with the people that they were asking me to write with.

If you only write when the muse strikes, you won't get anything done. You have to write consistently, when your schedule says you should. And that's hard.

Similarly, although we use prepositional phrases when we write, we apparently don't write more effectively when we can label our language in these ways.

Read heavily in the area where you want to write. Be aware of what's selling and what's doing well but don't try to write to market trends; they are fleeting.

You can write about anything, and if you write well enough, even the reader with no intrinsic interest in the subject will become involved.

Generally, what adults want to know is my background, why I write what I write, and very personal insights that some say are inspiring.

I usually write a lot. I don't make an album and don't write for two years and then end up with a blank paper starting over.

Celine Dion is my major inspiration.

It's Jamaican women and children who are my inspiration.

It's fun for me to try to write concise, compact things. It's a very good exercise for me. And I think it's important to try to do different things - change what I write about, and also the way I write. Otherwise, I'd just be repeating myself, which wouldn't be good for me or fair to my readers.

I just started to write because I was fed up of not seeing the stories that I wanted, so I was like “Stop moaning and write something.”

The secret is to write just anything, to dare to write just anything, because when you write just anything, you begin to say what is important.

My friends are a huge part of my inspiration.

Living is a constant source of inspiration.

I don't have to write jokes. I don't have to write insults. If you ask the man of the hour in the hot seat, my mere existence is clearly insult enough.

You've got to write badly. If you write badly at least you've got something to rewrite. If you're scared to write badly, then you've got nothing.

Inspiration always arrives unannounced.

When inspiration dies, imitation thrives.

I began to write, believing that all I had to do to change things would be to write the other side, to tell the stories that I heard from my grandmother.

Once I write something, I never try to write that same style again, because I get very schizophrenic musically.

When I finally started to heal, that was the inspiration.

I hate it, it is tedious... when I write for my act, it is very improvisational, I write bullet points, I cannot sit in front of a computer; that is not my style.

Writers don't write writing, they write reading. When I was a kid, I read four or five books a week. And that is how I became a writer.

I tend to write things and review it afterwards and realise what comes out. I very rarely ever write something and have to take it back.

I write for myself, and I write for my friends and people who I have a connection with. I try to give some dignity to peoples' lifestyles that tend to be ignored.

I have to re-write a lot. I couldn't tell you how many drafts I write, but I know I've done at least twenty rewrites on each book.

Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile.

If you want to be a Roman Catholic scholar and write, you've got to write in such a way that nobody understands what you're saying, and then you're thought to be profound.

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

It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down.

When you sit down to write, write. Don't do anything else except go to the bathroom, and only do that if it absolutely cannot be put off.

Because I work so much, people think that I have a team writing for me, but that's not why I chose to write music for films. I chose to write music because I like to write music. So every single note that comes out of my studio is written by me, and I wouldn't be able to do two movies at the same time.

I think people who create and write, it actually does flow-just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they write it down. It's simple.

When I write, I imagine scenes. I write things down. I take photographs. I do some casting. I rewrite. It's a permanent making or remaking.

An artist is usually the handyman in the service of inspiration.

I write all the time. I do artwork that's part of a diary, and I write short stories to go with them pretty much every day.

A lot of the people involved in the media are very serious, honest people, and they will tell you, and I think they are right, that they are not being forced to write anything... What they don't tell you, and are maybe unaware of, is that they are allowed to write freely because their beliefs conform to the... standard doctrinal system, and then, yes, they are allowed to write freely and are not coerced.

Babyface is definitely a big inspiration.

Although I write in English, and despite the fact that I'm from America, I consider myself an Armenian writer. The words I use are in English, the surroundings I write about are American, but the soul, which makes me write, is Armenian. This means I am an Armenian writer and deeply love the honor of being a part of the family of Armenian wrtiters.

I get inspiration from my everyday life.

When the inspiration comes, let everything else go!

Inspiration the seed. Design but the flower.

I write about what haunts me, and I write the books I myself am dying to read. I love it. I can't think of anything I'd rather do.

I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it's really helpful. But I always wanted to write novels.

If I waited to write only for a Persian lesbian, I'd still be waiting. But I can write for straight white men because those are the jobs.

I write to music, and Nina Simone is always on my playlist to write to. I mean, shes inspiring. She's truthful and real and raw.

I want to write for people that are trying to do some kind of quality music. What I mean by quality music is not so much the trend, what is hot right now. I don't write trendy, I write what feels good and something that feels good will never get old. Timeless music is what I try to shoot for.

Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.

To me, I don't care if I co-write or if I write alone. If it's a great song and it makes it to the record, then that's what is supposed to come, you know what I mean.

It isn't that inspiration doesn't exist, but it comes only with writing.

I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record. Originally I was not writing songs for myself. ....And I can say this, most of the people who have recorded my songs are songwriters themselves. ... Even if I don't release it myself, somebody else might hear it and want to record it. When you write a song, it gives it that potential. When you write a song, a song has longevity. ... So I wanted to sing inspirational music, and that's exactly how I approached it-only the words have been changed to declare my relationship with God. Songwriting is my gift from God.

Anything that feels like good characters, I am excited to do whether I write it or not. But if I don't find it in the world, I will write it myself.

The way that I write novels in particular is I don't usually outline; I just write. Part of the fun is discovering what's happening in the story as I'm going along.

Inspiration is nothing without work.

The most difficult novel I have had to write in terms of just getting it done was The Vampire Lestat. It took a year to write.

If I were to write my title like going through the airport and you have to put down what you do? I would literally write ‘creative genius’.

I want to be an inspiration to as many people as I can.

Oftentimes an originator of new language forms is called 'pretentious' by jealous talents. But it ain’t whatcha write, it’s the way atcha write it.

Quotes are nothing but inspiration for the uninspired