Quotes About Inspiration

The only way to write is to write. Writers write. And when they've written, they write some more.

The verses of Byron, Keats or Poe are real whether they are in bootleg form or not. You can still read them for the same effect.

It is written.

That 'gleeful darting of the house martins' stuff sounds suspiciously like the work of Jade-under-Lime's resident verse mercenary, Gerald Henna-Rose.

saw a vision of the world and all the options there could be!

Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.

fiction always surpasses reality but reality is always richer than fiction.

comportamiento de un héroe hay casi siempre algo ciego, irracional, instintivo, algo que está en su naturaleza y a lo que no puede escapar. Además, se puede ser una persona decente durante toda una vida, pero no se puede ser sublime sin interrupción, y por eso el héroe sólo lo es excepcionalmente, en un momento o, a lo sumo, en una temporada de locura o inspiración.

Since nothing annoys a writer who doesn't write as much as being asked what he's writing

O sea que se puede ser un buen escritor siendo un grandísimo hijo de puta. Qué...

porque los libros siempre acaban cobrando vida propia, y porque uno no escribe acerca de lo que quiere, sino de lo que puede...un escritor no escribe nunca acerca de lo que conoce, sino precisamente de lo que ignora.

Para escribir novelas no hace falta imaginación—dijo Bolaño—. Sólo memoria. Las novelas se escriben combinando recuerdos.

Yo enamoré a mi mujer haciéndole creer que era escritor y al final tuve que hacerme escritor para que se quedase conmigo.

los libros siempre acaban cobrando vida propia, y porque uno no escribe acerca de lo que quiere, sino de lo que puede;

What happened is the least of it. It's a novel, and once you've finished a novel, what happened in it is of little importance and soon forgotten. What matters are the possibilities and ideas that the novel's imaginary plot communicates to us and infuses us with, a plot that we recall far more vividly than real events and to which we pay far more attention.

Without that passion and urge, there is a gradual oozing out of hope and vitality, a settling down on lower levels of existence, a slow merging into non-existence. We become prisoners of the past and some part of its immobility sticks to us.

People are silently begging to be led.

As Isabel Allende said, "You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend or not." Step

To address right-brained people, you use pictures, appeals to the imagination, color, rhythm, and space.

Brain righties love open space.

Without passion, there is little enthusiasm. Without enthusiasm, profits are few and far between.

When you want to change someone's mood, tell a story.

Finalmente, llénala de deseo de actuar. Muestra a la bombilla que el cambio es pan comido e inspírala con una visión de claridad. Esto requiere emociones más fuertes que conviertan una decisión en un compromiso.

Suffering is supposed to be the raw stuff of art.