Quotes on Inspiration To Write

People on the outside think there's something magical about writing, that you go up in the attic at midnight and cast the bones and come down in the morning with a story, but it isn't like that. You sit in back of the typewriter and you work, and that's all there is to it.

Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.

The scariest moment is always just before you start.

Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.

Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good.

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.

This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.

The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow, I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.

Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.