Quotes About Inspiration

A well-disposed research librarian is a writer's best friend, as essential as ink.

Writers are just people who have a whole lot on the inside that they need to get to the outside, with pen and paper their preferred method of transport. Same with dancers, artists, and singers — all the same urges with differing transportation.

When I stop the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.

Writing is easy. You just sit down and focus — but not too hard.

An author plants the alphabet — and harvests flowers, nourishment, and weeds.

Writer's block is a disease for which there is no cure, only respite.

Pen and ink is wit's plough.

"Mr. Harte, what books shall I read to acquire a perfect style?" "Oh, lord!" he groaned, swinging around in his chair, "for pity's sake, don't read anything! Just write! Write! Write!"

Writing isn't hard; no harder than ditch-digging.

Some writers have beautiful poetry inside that explodes from the pen into prose. Others hold their inner prose until it implodes to poetry.

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.

No sooner do I get interested than bang! goes my sleep, and I have to stop a week or ten days, during which my ideas get all cold again.

Reading in bed is a gateway drug to writing in bed.

I was learning then that the terrible thing about being a writer is that you don't decide to be one, you discover that you are one.

Being an author is having angels whisper in your ear — and devils, too.

The pen is a tree whose fruit is expression.

My only cure for writer's block is insomnia.

If I'm trying to sleep, the ideas won't stop. If I'm trying to write, there appears a barren nothingness.

Writing helps keep me sane — or at least a pen's length from insane.

The best writers always make poetry, whether it comes out prose or verse.

He transforms every bottle of ink into a scrolling trail of metaphors.

The universe will do the writing for you, if you just listen closely enough.

Love letters and poems aren't the least bit difficult to write, if you write directly from your heart into the ink and don't channel through your brain first.

Writing — a race to the typewriter keys before that brilliant idea flees