Quotes About Inspiration

Don't worry, honey, Suzanne's mother says to Suzanne. One day you'll set the world on fire.

MFA program at the University of Michigan when we met.

If you can't be a good example, settle for being a horrible warning

Jennifer Crusie

the only way to live life was to look for the best in every day and make sure I had a part in creating some of it.

This life of mine has been a little tough to negotiate the past two years. Not that everyone's isn't, after all, it wouldn't be called 'life' if a litte difficulty weren't automatically interferred. 'Super duper journey of progress and inspiration' maybe, but not 'life'.

Tell the story that's been growing in your heart, the characters you can't keep out of your head, the tale that speaks to you, that pops into your head during your daily commute, that wakes you up in the morning.

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Inadequacy and impostor syndrome are painful. They're also great motivators.

I'm probably mangling this quote from Oscar Wilde, who said he saved his truest genius for his life—that his life was his real work of art. That was Drue. She had a genius for living.

For months I'd been writing, holed up in my bedroom, or doing the clichéd thing of bringing my laptop to a neighborhood coffee shop, where I was surrounded by my more attractive peers, the ones who carried on long, loud telephone conversations in which they used the words my agent as often as possible, and did everything but prop tip cups and WRITER AT WORK signs

Jennifer Weiner

If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are halfway through.

When women lift each other up, when we reach out our hands to each other, when we honor the ones who came before us and hold the door open for the ones who will follow, there is nothing we can't do.

In a dream you saw a way to survive and you were full of joy.

The job of the writer isn't to answer questions. The job of the writer is to ask the questions for which there are no answers.

Most people who avoid quitting their jobs entertain the thought that the job will improve with time or with an increased income. This is a tempting hallucination that occurs when a job is boring or uninspiring, instead of being pure hell. Pure hell forces action, but anything less than this can be endured with enough rationalization.

Jeri Smith-Ready

I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination

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It is a most remarkable thing. I sat down with the full intention of writing something clever and original; but for the life of me I can't think of anything clever and original--at least, not at this moment.

If I get a new idea today—or any day—I won't run from it. I won't trash it. If it's something I really want to do—I'll do it.

No one on earth is so boring and insignificant that he or she is not worth writing or reading about...One thing's for sure—no one but you can be the hero of your story.

The stuff that comes easy takes the most rewriting. And the stuff that comes hard reads the easiest (Writing for the Soul, p. 194).