Writing Inspiration Quotes

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

I could write about how I feel when I sing, write and create something from heartbreak, sorrow, sadness or just simply nothingness. How nothingness can become the most beautiful, unexplainable feeling that makes you forget about gravity for an hour.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

I was working in silence seeking no appreciation or respect from any one. And it is always the silence from which great literature is born.

~ Abhijit Naskar

You flourish one hushed breath at a time. Imagine all you can build word by single word.

~ Laurie Seidler

You are lucky to be one of those people who wishes to build sand castles with words, who is willing to create a place where your imagination can wander.

~ Anne Lamott

Life is a book. There are many pages to be written.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

And because the world is too big and time is too short and you only have one life to live, read!

~ A.a. Patawaran

The grace of writing is upon me.I love writing. I write daily.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Oil may run out, liquidity may dry up, but as long as ink flows freely, the next chapter of Life will continue to be written.

~ Alex Morritt

We are inspired by divine power to write.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Dementia isn’t the only place that memories are found to be flawed—people find out they can’t rely on their memories every day. People blindsided in relationships. People who find out their truth is a lie. People pulled from trauma. People awakened, as in Anna and Eve. I wondered: If you can’t use memories to steer your life, what can you use? I didn’t know. It was why I had to write this book.

~ Sally Hepworth

One does not travel, any more than one falls in love, to collect material. It is simply part of one's life...

~ Evelyn Waugh

Writers don't forget the past, they turn it into raw material.

~ Joyce Rachelle

Not all writers are silently suffering inside. But it certainly helps.

~ Joyce Rachelle

Don't just write a strong female protagonist. Be one.

~ A.d. Posey

Passionate attraction to someone of the opposite sex will make a hero or a fool of a novelist each time.

~ Roman Payne

Basically, writers write because they have something to say...Everyone has a story in them, writers merely decide to share it with the world...

~ Virginia Alison

When we sit down to write, we psychically enter a sanctuary. This safe haven is our own personal space where we can say whatever is on our mind, where we can talk about what matters most to us, where we can imagine the kind of world that we would like to live.

~ Rob Bignell

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

~ Rob Bignell

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

~ Rob Bignell

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

~ Rob Bignell

Every word I write is a seed that I may nurture into a small, beautiful poem or a tall, soaring tree.

~ 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

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