Top 1200 Inspiration To Write Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

There is inspiration all around us.

Inspiration comes from all different places.

I'm not running out of inspiration.

Out of routine comes inspiration.

Inspiration follows aspiration.

A lot of people who don't write for kids think it's easy, because they think kids aren't as smart as they are, or that you have to dumb down what you would normally write for kids. But I think you have to work harder when you write for kids, to make sure every word is right, that it's there for the right reason.

Inspiration is intention obeyed.

Discipline is the servant of inspiration.

If you write a book set in the past about something that happened east of the Mississippi, it's a 'historical novel.' If you write about something that took place west of the Mississippi, it's a 'Western'- and somehow regarded as a lesser work. I write historical novels about the frontier.

Loving your subject, you will write about it with the spontaneity and enthusiasm that will transmit itself to your reader. Loving your reader, you will respect him and want to please him. You will not write down to him. You will take infinite pains with your work. You will write well. And if you write well, you will get published.

One day you'll be an inspiration at others.

It's inspiration that counts, not the drill.

Inspiration is the key to everything.

The way I write music for other artists is the same way I write music for myself. I'll pick up the guitar, and I'll write music, and if I don't use it, I have, like, 500 other songs. If I don't use it, I give it away.

I write an actual script rather quickly - a draft will take me two weeks - but I write a lot of drafts. My big thing is I don't re-read. When I write, I never re-read back. I'll send it, because if I re-read back, it will cripple me.

My daughter is my greatest inspiration.

Insomnia is my greatest inspiration.

You're going to write straight and simple and good now. That's the start.''What if I'm not straight and simple and good? Do you think I can write that way?''Write how you are but make it straight.

Of course, I may go into a strange bedroom every now and then that I don't want you to write about, but otherwise you can write everything.

Life itself is inspiration.

Inspiration is cross-pollinating.

Don't be afraid to write crap - it makes the best fertilizer. The more you write the better your chances of growing something wonderful.

Inspiration starts somewhere.

Art is craft, not inspiration.

Inspiration is the opportunity of genius.

I started to write because of my dream to become a filmmaker. I got to know about a film school in Paris and it was my goal to get there. To do that I knew I had to learn French. In order to practice I started to write journals in French. The effort I made to master what I regarded a bad thing - a language owned by the rich Moroccans - brought me the ability to write.

My inspiration is always nature.

My mother was my rock and my inspiration.

I'm always looking for inspiration.

Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself.

Travel is the ultimate inspiration.

Inspiration and genius -one and the same.

I find inspiration in everything.

I find my inspiration in myself.

Lead by inspiration, not intimidation.

In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays.

The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.

Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation

I write incessantly, I'm very productive, I write for a dozen publications and blogs and websites. A lot of very hardcore political stuff. I write a weekly feature. I express myself. But when time comes to make music [with the] same absolutely unleashing of total honesty zero inhibitions, it just flows like a stream of conscientiousness because I will not be silenced no matter what my point might be.

Inspiration gives no warnings.

Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.

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.'

I'm not smart enough to write about something that didn't actually happen to me. But I couldn't write a space movie if you put a gun to my head.

It is so cool to live with inspiration.

My greatest inspiration is memory.

One reads not for information, but inspiration.

Most obstacles are inspiration.

If I was gonna write a book that was true, and I was gonna write a book that was honest, then I was gonna have to write about myself in very, very negative ways.

I think that as a writer your responsibility is to search for and stir up the things that are in this world. There is violence in all of us, and beauty, and strength, and weakness. What's my job? To only write about the good and the beauty, or is it to write about all of it? That's my greater responsibility, to write about them as I see them and as they are.

Inspiration comes from the act of writing.

I often write about reconciling. Reconciling, or maybe half-reconciling between antagonists, between people who are deadly enemies. I write about reconciliation, but not as a miracle, as a slow, gradual process of mutual discovery - discovering one another. I write about sad, sober, sometimes heart-breaking compromises.

One must be one's own inspiration.

All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.

I believe inspiration is contagious.

The main thing you worry about is just coming up with songs at all. I don't sit down and write stuff like certain writers do. They think about what they are going to write first and then they write it. I just get what comes in at me. It's like I'm a musician and if I can keep my mitt on, I can catch the balls that come at me.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

Observation capitalizes inspiration.

Write every day. Don't kill yourself. I think a lot of people think, 'I have to write a chapter a day' and they can't. They fall behind and stop doing it. But if you just write even one hundred words a day, it's not that much. By the end of a month, you'll have three thousand words, which is one chapter.

My inspiration is love and history.

To me, writing is about how we see. The writers I want to read teach me how to see-see the world differently. In my writing there is no separation between how I observe the world and how I write the world. We write through our eyes. We write through our body. We write out of what we know.