Writers Inspiration Quotes

If you are afraid of the critics you will never write a word

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

You never know what you will write until you write it

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Write it as you see in your own perspective, you may be right or wrong but then what, that's how you see it

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

How do you feel when you read stuff written by dead authors? A visit by a ghost?

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

You cannot write if you are not angry

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

You cannot write if you are not on fire

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Writing is sharing. You share what you have. Great writers have more to share

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

People speak even after their death. Only do speak those who have recorded their speech in writing before they die, the rest go silent forever

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

The power of a writer is that he is a god of sorts. He can create his own worlds and populate them with his own people, all by the powers of his imagination. It's the closest a man can come close to the gods. No wonder the most successful writers are considered immortals

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Self-censorship is more efficient than any police. You write and say not what you really think, but what you believe is acceptable. By that process we lose those revolutionary ideas that could change society for the better

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Many writers write because they’ve been there, seen that, did it and burnt their fingers

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

A writer reports on the universe. When he presents his credentials, the gates of heaven and hell are equally opened to him. He can hear the devil’s defense and god’s accusations. The guards at the king’s heart let him in. The writer can be anything and any one he wants. When he writes he is a god, he creates.

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

If I can write, who possibly can’t. Even drawing a line in the sand is writing

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

The power of the writer is to capture the thoughts live and present them as they appeared in his mind

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

A writer is never alone, he is always in conversation with himself

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Writing is self-pleasure

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Writing is all about self-expression, we want to speak up, to get it off our chest. Whether we make an impact or not that is not for us to decide

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

If I had time, money and knowledge I could write about everything; but no problem, Google is already doing it

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Writing is magic happening on paper

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Every book is worth reading. If it cannot make you wiser it will make you a critic

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Today almost everybody is a writer, the enormous publish button on blogs and websites begs you everywhere to click on it! And bam you are a writer. To hell with agents and publishing houses and rejection letters. Immortality for you is on the click of a mouth! We are advancing at the speed of light! You can become an author at 140 characters. To hell with long winding sentences and long hours of scratching the head, the immortals of today instantly get a like and they instantly enter the pantheon! They seat side by side Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, St Paul, Buddha, Martin Luther, Rousseau, Bangambiki…

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

When I write sometimes I strike gold, sometimes I labor in vain and keep producing rubbish

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Don't believe in everything that is written. Not everything that is written is true

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

The greatest moments of creativity come in absolute solitude, when one’s mind is free from distraction and able to probe the depths of the impossible.

~ Fennel Hudson

Whenever I encounter writer’s block, I stop writing … with my hands; and I then start writing with my legs.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It’s easy to write a sentence, paragraph, or book. What’s difficult is writing the best sentence, paragraph, or book, you can write.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

My wishes before I die, to fulfill my mission on earth; The writing of my life stories to inspired present and future generations.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Being the Novelist-in-Residence at a riad hotel in the kasbah of an Arabic North African city is a lot like trying to write one’s memoirs on shreds of napkins in a nuthouse.

~ Roman Payne

Writing heals the quandaries of life.

~ Susan J. Mcintire

To all you writers, artists, musicians, creative types who want to give up: It's okay to walk away for a bit. Get your second wind. But your writing, art, music will be there, lurking over your shoulder, and it will call to you, and you will answer. And come back even stronger.

~ Kathleen M. Rodgers

..here's the editor's prescription, writer: 1000 words daily until next checkup.

~ Rob Bignell

When I reach for my pen, nothing is out of reach.

~ Rob Bignell

Replace your old books with the book you've always wanted to write.

~ Rob Bignell

My ideas are a shapeless mass that my writing molds into beauty.

~ Rob Bignell

Every word I write is another stroke that takes me to the shore of a completed book.

~ Rob Bignell

Replace your old books with the books you’ve always wanted to write.

~ Rob Bignell

Your first written sentence is the foundation of all of your dreams.

~ Rob Bignell

Folding the laundry, completing another project at work, or watching television for the next hour doesn’t build your writing muscles. It only leaves them flabby.

~ Rob Bignell

By writing, we partake in something greater than ourselves. Pick up pen and paper or take a seat at your computer today and create something of beauty.

~ Rob Bignell

...writing allows us to reposition ourselves so we can see what is otherwise in our mental blind spots or those things about oneself and the world that we neither can see nor understand from the spot where we stand.

~ Rob Bignell