Inspiration Quotes

If you like fantasy and you want to be the next Tolkien, don’t read big Tolkienesque fantasies — Tolkien didn’t read big Tolkienesque fantasies, he read books on Finnish philology. Go and read outside of your comfort zone, go and learn stuff.

~ Neil Gaiman

Writing a story, regardless of length, begins always with a single word.

~ Don Roff

Never let negativity derail your journey as a writer. Use the energy for your own betterment.

~ Guadalupe Neri

Lately the muse has been treating me like Ike treated Tina.

~ Quentin R. Bufogle

About writing:The trick is to make sure you love what you've produced--to Believe..in order to convince.

~ Christina Westover

If there's a will, there's a way!I feel larger than LIFE--and look up to the stars who shine down on me and have become my own personal cheerleaders....as my fingers tap on my computer late into the night..

~ Donna Scrima-Black

The internet is killing the art of writing. The big publish button begs you to publish even before you go back and make one single edit, and as if this was not enough, you have instant readers who praise your writing skills!-

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Let your story grow. Let it surprise you, and it will certainly surprise your readers.

~ M. Kirin

Grub Street turns out good things almost as often as Parnassus. For if a writer is hard up enough, if he’s far down enough (down where I have been and am rising from, I am really saying), he can’t afford self-doubt and he can’t let other people’s opinions, even a father’s, keep him from writing.

~ Wallace Stegner

If we can write or sing or create in some way, even when we are dealing with difficulties or pain, then it becomes something bigger than ourselves — and often beautiful.

~ Brenda Peterson

Please don't entertain for a moment the utterly mistaken idea that there is no drudgery in writing. There is a great deal of drudgery in even the most inspired, the most noble, the most distinguished writing. Read what the great ones have said about their jobs; how they never sit down to their work without a sigh of distress and never get up from it witout a sigh of relief. Do you imagine that your Muse is forever flamelike -- breathing the inspired word, the wonderful situation, the superb solution into your attentive ear? ... Believe me, my poor boy, if you wait for inspiration in our set-up, you'll wait for ever.

~ Ngaio Marsh

Do one thing every day that scares you.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.

~ Neil Gaiman

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.

~ Maya Angelou

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

~ Lou Holtz

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

~ Vincent Van Gogh

You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

~ Thomas Jefferson

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

~ Zora Neale Hurston

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

~ Marcus Aurelius

Tomorrow will be better.”“But what if it’s not?” I asked.“Then you say it again tomorrow. Because it might be. You never know, right? At some point, tomorrow will be better.

~ Morgan Matson

It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.

~ Babe Ruth

The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it.

~ Jordan Belfort

Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.

~ Susan Sontag

Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.

~ Hunter S. Thompson

Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.

~ David Richo

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

~ Lou Holtz

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature -- the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.

~ Rachel Carson

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.

~ Hermann Hesse

Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.

~ Mary Kay Ash

There is no dishonor in losing the race. There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid to lose.

~ Garth Stein

All the effort in the world won't matter if you're not inspired.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

~ Lou Holtz

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from - it’s where you take them to. #53 - Winter, January 22, 2004 ]

~ Jim Jarmusch

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

~ Martin Luther

If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.

~ Hunter S. Thompson

Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don't just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won't happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here.

~ Donald J. Trump