Best writing & inspiration Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Write what you know. Write what you want to know more about. Write what you're afraid to write about.”

Knows Want Writing Inspiration What You Want

“The craft of writing is all the stuff that you can learn through school; go to workshops and read books. Learn characterization, plot and dialogue and pacing and word choice and point of view. Then there's also the art of it which is sort of the unknown, the inspiration, the stuff that is noncerebral.”

Writing Art Book Inspiration School Choices Stuff Views Point Of View Dialogue Crafts Plot Workshops Characterization Pacing Word Choice

Author:Garth Stein

“Without a doubt my mother was an inspiration for my writing. This is true in many ways, but mostly because she is a wonderful storyteller, without even knowing it.”

Way Writing Inspiration Mother Knowing Doubt Wonderful Storyteller

Author:Elizabeth Strout

“So-called "inspiration" is no more than an extreme example of a process which constantly goes on in the minds of all of us.”

Writing Mind Inspiration Process Example Goes On Extremes

Book:Churchill's Black Dog, Kafka's Mice, and Other Phenomena of the Human Mind

Source: Churchill's Black Dog, Kafka's Mice, and Other Phenomena of the Human Mind

“Writing music is not so much inspiration as hard work.”

Writing Hard Inspiration Hard Work Music Is Writing Music Gershwin

Author:George Gershwin

“To me, obstacles in life build character. You have to be able to overcome adversity in order to succeed and appreciate the simple things life has to offer...that's where most of my inspiration for writing and singing comes from.”

Writing Character Inspiration Able Order Simple Offers Succeed Singing Appreciate Overcoming Adversity Obstacles Overcoming Adversity Simple Things Order To Succeed Obstacle In Life

Author:Elliott Yamin

“The writing part of my life never changes, because that's just when the inspiration comes.”

Writing Inspiration Never Change

Author:Randy Owen

“Well mostly in song writing my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours, days and weeks with a guitar and piano until something good comes.”

Writing Wells Hard Inspiration Song Hours Week Hard Work Guitar Piano

Author:Bjorn Ulvaeus

“It is in the midst of the city that one writes the most inspiring pages about the country.”

Writing Country Inspiration Cities Pages Midst Most Inspiring

Author:Jules Renard

“It is the first line that gives the inspiration and then it's like riding a bull. Either you just stick with it, or you don't.”

Giving Writing Firsts Inspiration Lines Sticks Riding Bulls

Author:Bob Dylan

“Professors will lecture with more inspiration if they occasionally alternate the classroom with the beach: authors will write better when, as Macaulay used to do, they write for two hours, then pitch quoits, and then go back to their writing. But certainly more than the mere mechanical alternation is involved.”

Ifs Writing Two Inspiration Used Hours Involved Mere Planning Beach Professors Classroom Lectures

Book:The Courage to Create

Source: The Courage to Create

“Writing a novel is like building a wall brick by brick; only amateurs believe in inspiration.”

Writing Believe Inspiration Novel Building Wall Construction Bricks

Author:Frank Yerby

“Writing is done by someone. It is not, like some mythical goddess, a skill that springs forth, full grown from the genes of inspiration.”

Writing Done Inspiration Skills Spring Genes Goddess

Author:Leonard Bishop

“Music's always part of my writing. I think all art is interconnected. You can't create or experience one without its influences bleeding into another. In my writing, music's mostly something that feeds my inspiration and mood while I'm writing, but it's also taught me how to score scenes and even novels. The rise and fall of the storyline echoes the flow of a good piece of music.”

Thinking Writing Art Inspiration Fall Novel Pieces Influence Taught Scene Art Is Flow Mood Score Echoes Bleeding Interconnected Writing Music Rise And Fall Storyline

Author:Charles de Lint

“I'm trying to write for people my age. And my inspiration over the years has changed dramatically.”

People Writing Trying Years Inspiration Age Changed

Author:John Mellencamp

“I've described my usual writing process as scrambling from peak to peak on inspiration through foggy valleys of despised logic. Inspiration is better when you can get it.”

Writing Inspiration Process Logic Valleys Usual Writing Process Despised

Book:Young Miles

Source: Young Miles

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