Sometimes, we need a little boost to feed our artistic flame with new, mighty inspiration.
Often we don’t need advice, we just need something to inspire us…
Like these 19 quotes from the Titans of creative writing…
1: “Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.” – William Wordsworth
2: “You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.” – Jack London
3: “Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.” – Louis L’Amour
4: “The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.” – Terry Pratchett
5: “And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” – Sylvia Plath
6: “A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.” – Thomas Mann
7: “If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.” – Toni Morrison
8: “The scariest moment is always just before you start.” – Stephen King
9: “Substitute ‘damn’ every time you’re inclined to write ‘very;’ your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.” – Mark Twain
10: “Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.” – Anton Chekhov
11: “You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.” – Ray Bradbury
12: “One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.” – Jack Kerouac
13: “Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.” – E. L. Doctorow
14: “The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ‘Tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.” – Mark Twain
15: “Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it’s the only way you can do anything really good.” – William Faulkner
16: “A word after a word after a word is power.” – Margaret Atwood
17: “I’m writing a first draft and reminding myself that I’m simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.” – Shannon Hale
18: “The road to hell is paved with adverbs.” – Stephen King
19: “So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.” – Dr. Seuss