Inspirational Quotes

Let your story breathe and be what it really is.

~ A.d. Posey

Take your ego out of your story.

~ A.d. Posey

I write because I know I am only one to control the world I created in my books.

~ Anamika Mishra

...so I think writers are made and not born. But what you choose to write is buried so deeply inside it's like lodestones inside you and sooner or later you come near something that you're supposed to be doing with your life and it's like a magnet. It attracts.

~ Stephen King

I write because in my books, I can experience those (mad and crazy) things that I won't be able to do in my real life

~ Anamika Mishra

Writers live twice.

~ —Natalie Goldberg

We, writers & poets, have a big problem. We swim too deep inside life, also in shallow waters, and then we end touching the sand!

~ Rossana Condoleo

A writer is simply one who writes words, Even if just 1 person reads it your work, or a 100, or 1million or 100,000 You are a writer.

~ Uma Nnenna

We all have a place within us, that would like to rewrite the way our life was written out for us....That's why people want to become authors.„

~ Tracie Molton

Not everyone will like what you write but there's a certain group who'll love what you write. Keep WRITING for them.

~ David Chuka

Writers are a product of where we come from but by looking at alternatives to the culture in which we live, we can find ways to change and hopefully improve it.

~ Sara Sheridan

Nothing leaves a scar upon an Authors heart more than a book they've written with purpose going unread.

~ Mark W. Boyer

Everybody is born with a little bit of writer in them. We all come with the desire to work hard to see our creations come to life on the page. But it is those who choose to do something about this passion that has been ignited inside of them that are true writers.

~ Brian A. Mcbride

I know it's difficult in the beginning. But, listen. If you have the impulse to write, do yourself a favor, do the world a favor, and write.

~ Christy Hall

Give all that you can. No more. No less. Every. Single. Day.

~ Christy Hall

The expectation that TV women need to be more likeable than men is bullshit and in need of a change.

~ Mindy Kaling

A writer writes. There are no exceptions to this reality. No excuses. Stop wasting time talking about your stories and get them on paper.

~ Christy Hall

As you near a finish line, do not slow down. Instead, run faster. Give all you have left until it is done. It is then that you may collapse.

~ Christy Hall

Let life be the foundation. Be brave. Wander deep inside yourself to the little room no one knows about. Fling the door wide open and write.

~ Christy Hall

If insanity is defined as doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results - then success is insanity squared!(2012 SCBWI New Member Conference; Richmond, VA)

~ Brian Rock

When authors write from personal experiences,straight from the heart,it touches the readers. Their work speaks out to all who read it,and most of the time,people can relate to what was written. I have always believed that books can change people's lives. Especially ones where the author is sincere,and writes deep,thoughtful,touching things from their hearts.-Nina Jean Slack

~ Nina Jean Slack

I believe that half the trouble in the world comes from people asking 'What have I achieved?' rather than 'What have I enjoyed?' I've been writing about a subject I love as long as I can remember--horses and the people associated with them, anyplace, anywhere, anytime. I couldn't be happier knowing that young people are reading my books. But even more important to me is that I've enjoyed so much the writing of them.

~ Walter Farley

My job as a poet, is not to succumb to despair but to find in words, an antidote for the emptiness of existence.

~ Michelle Geaney

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right-about-face which turns us from failure towards success.

~ Dorothea Brande

Writer's block is caused by forcing your will on the Divine.

~ Chriscinthia Blount

I always secretly looked forward to nothing going as planned. That way, I wasn't limited by my imagination. That way, anything can, and always did, happen.

~ Crimethinc.

What I discovered I liked best about striking out on my bicycle was that the farther I got from home, the more interesting and unusual my thoughts became.

~ Richard Russo

Maybe there is another who sees life not as a flickering candle but as a torch that can illuminate an undiscovered world.

~ Jimmy Buffett

There will always be those who feel more comfortable not venturing from the warmth of the hearth, but there are those who prefer to look out the window and wonder what is beyond the horizon.

~ Jimmy Buffett

Give to the world the best you have and the best will come back to you.

~ Myrna Ericksen

... and her name was Freedom.

~ Pam Muñoz Ryan

In my fantasies, I was always caught up in heroic struggles, and I saw myself saving lives, sacrificing myself for others. I had far loftier ambitions than mere romance.

~ Irene Gut Opdyke

Every experience is enduring adventure.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Whoever risks, shall know how far they can reach.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The real adventure is the reality of Life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Enjoy the adventure of existence.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You are now 18standing on the precipice,trembling before your own greatness.This is your call to leap.There will always being those who say you are too young and delicate to make anything happen for yourself. They don’t see the part of you that smolders.Don’t let their doubting drown out the sound of your own heartbeat.You are the first drop of a hurricane.Your bravery builds beyond youYou are needed by all the little girls still living in secret, writing oceans made of monsters andthrowing like lightening.You don’t need to grow up to find greatness.You are stronger than the world has ever believed you to be.The world is waiting for you to set it on fireTrust in yourselfand burn.

~ Clementine Von Radics

The sea is dangerous and its storms terrible, but these obstacles have never been sufficient reason to remain ashore... Unlike the mediocre, intrepid spirits seek victory over those things that seem impossible... It is with an iron will that they embark on the most daring of all endeavors... to meet the shadowy future without fear and conquer the unknown.

~ Ferdinand Magellan

When you fear nothing, you have nothing to fear

~ S.f. Chandler

Life is a beautiful adventure.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita