Quotes About Inspiration

But, in yourself, you said that you would write about these people ... and for once it would be written by some one who knew what he was writing of. But he would never do it, because each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work so that, finally, he did no work at all.

Tal vez, lejos de París, podría escribir sobre París tal como en París era capaz de escribir sobre Michigan.

Writing. It is like no other light. A very clear and hollow light.

write. There was going to be everything that a man needed to write except to be alone. Zelda

The very beginning was written and all he had to do was go on. That's all, he said. You see how simple what you cannot do is?

finding you were able to make something up; to create truly enough so that it made you happy to read it; and to do this every day you worked was something that gave a greater pleasure than any I had ever known.

I write about my now. It is the horses. You have a very interesting now. And you've made me presents of many places and people.

great, high, and unbelievably white in the sun, was the square top of Kilimanjaro.

Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well.

No. Hieronymus Bosch. Very old-timer. Very good. Pieter Brueghel worked on that too.

I had learned already never to empty the well of my writing, but always stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

Can you imagine anyone making wine because it tastes like strawberries?

Make me a Tom Collins with coconut water and bitters to take. Put it in one of the cork holders.

all good things come from what is inside you.

Write drunk; edit sober.

When I had written a novel before, the one that had been lost in the bag stolen at the Gare de Lyon, I still had the lyric facility of boyhood that was as perishable and as deceptive as youth was. I knew that it was probably a good thing that it was lost, but I knew too that I must write a novel.

Allow me to pay this small tribute to you who taught so much to those of us who wanted to be writers when we were young. I deplore the fact that you have not yet received a Nobel Prize, especially when it was given to so many who deserved it less, like me, who am only an adventurer.

there were always the books, so that you lived in the new world you had found...

Make it all up. But make it up so truly that later it will happen that way. Ernest Hemingway

A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and, having found what is true, to project it in such a way that it becomes a part of the experience of the person who reads it.

Trying to write something of permanent value is a full-time job.

Ernest Hemingway

I've never read anything, though, that could make you feel about the country the way we feel about it. . . I'd like to try to write something about the country and the animals and what it's like to some one who knows nothing about it.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.