Which of the following writer quotations will inspire you the most?Read on and find the writer quotations that are meant to prompt you into your next short story, limerick, novel, haiku, or other type of writing. Click for Free Writer's Block Help E-Zine and Free E-Book The few comments or questions that follow each writer quotation will help you out a bit, but search a little deeper within yourself to find ways in which they truly relate to you and your love for writing. "Behind every word flows energy." -- Sonia Choquette What type of energy do you possess? What energizes you? Is it the same thing that makes you want to write? "Learn to wish that everything should come to pass exactly as it does." If you are grateful for what you have, and learn to live with the hand that life has dealt you, you will be much better off, and more able to write from the heart. "Music is the answer to the mystery of life; it is the most profound of all the arts; it expresses the deepest thoughts of life and being; a simple language which nonetheless cannot be translated." What is your answer to the mystery of life? Is life even a mystery to you? Why? "Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them." What do you notice? Are there things that you don't notice one day and notice the next? Why do you think that is? "Everywhere I go, I find a poet has been there before me." What do you find when you go somewhere? Is there something that has happened that inspires a story within you? What does Freud mean by "a poet" that has been there before him? What or whom could the poet be? "Only connect." -- E.M. Forster How do you connect with your writing? With your subject matter? With your thoughts and emotions? "Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." Keep trying. No matter how much you don't believe in yourself or your writing anymore, don't give up. You will only be cheating yourself. "I have often rewritten -- often several times -- every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers." -- Vladimir Nabokov Your pencils should outlast their erasers. If you erase, you might lose something that later on would have proved useful. If you must erase, draw a thin line through the words you don't like, or rip out the pages and put them aside. But don't permanently discard any material. "You write a book and it's like putting a message in a bottle and throwing it in the ocean. You don't know if it will ever reach any shores. And there, you see, sometimes it falls in the hands of the right person." Your writing may not be meant for everyone. However, there are many people out there who will love your writing and find it inspirational for them, just as these writer quotations or other writings you have read may be inspirational for you. "Only he who does nothing makes a mistake." -- French Proverb The only way to fail is to not even try. If you don't try, you're making the biggest mistake of them all, and you'll never know how well you could have written, or done anything else for that matter. "When I want to read a good book, I write one." -- Benjamin Disraeli There are so many good books out there, but when you know that you want to write, and you want to read something that is truly good and makes you feel you've accomplished something, write. You must be a fan of your own writing in order to engage others with your writing. "Creativity is a continual surprise." -- Ray Bradbury Let your thoughts, emotions, and creative inklings take you over. You truly will be surprised at what you can come up with if you take this writer quotation into account. "I enjoy writing when I am in the desert. There are no distractions such as telephones, theaters, operas, houses and gardens." -- Agatha Christie By all means, I believe you should go out into the world and write. Find what inspires you out there. However, if you are someone who requires peace and quiet, and that works well for you, go for it. The whole point is to find what works for you. "I have never believed that my limitations were in any sense punishments or accidents. If I had held such a view, I could never have expected the strength to overcome them." -- Helen Keller Anyone can accomplish their dreams if they put their mind to it. Don't give up. Failure is not an option. Press on and you'll be thankful that you did. "Nothing is accomplished without enthusiasm." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson I'll make this simple: be enthusiastic! Don't let anything get you down. If you can't think of the next word that will make your writing perfect, but you know how you want the rest of the writing to go, write the rest and come back to that word. It'll come to you. I promise. Just give it time. "How do I know what I think until I see what I say?" -- E.M. Forster Since this author has two writer quotations listed on this page, I'd say that he is pretty inspiring. Some people need to write things down. They are more visual. Whether you are one of these people or not, write down everything you're thinking about writing. Then read it over. In this way, you'll know what you think, as you'll literally "see" what you're saying. "One of the most difficult things is the first paragraph. I have spent many months on a first paragraph, and once I get it, the rest just comes out very easily." -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez This quote definitely applies to me. Don't despair if it applies to you, too. If you have ideas about where the rest of the story will go, write them down. The first paragraph will come to you eventually. Then you can alter the rest of what you've written to accommodate your beginning. "Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action." -- Brendan Francis If you are inspired, don't sit on your thoughts. Use writer quotations such as this to realize that you must put it into writing immediately. Otherwise you may be sorry when your mind wanders and you forget that amazing notion you had. "Beginning to write, you discover what you have to write about." If you don't begin something, how will you know where you want to go with it? Beginnings are important. Without them, how will you ever have a middle or an end? "I think I am a verb instead of a personal pronoun. A verb signifies to be, to do, to suffer. I signify all these." -- Ulysses S. Grant If you are a writer, you should consider yourself a verb. You are an action oriented person. You may also consider yourself an adjective. Hard-working, purposeful, and imaginative. You signify a myriad of words. Use these words to help you write. These writer quotations are effective at helping you to realize that creative writing quotes can definitely spur some writing ideas. Thought provoking quotes such as these writer quotations are necessary for writers to begin to understand those that came before them, as well as their contemporaries. If you don't understand the craft of writing, how it began, and how writers do what they do, you will remain lost in your own writing. It's not a form of cheating to study others. Their styles, their techniques, and what they say in their writer quotations are helpful and motivating for you to find your own style, technique, and wording to make your writing great. Peruse the writer quotations again at your own leisure. You may find that you missed something the first time that sparks a creative notion this time. Enjoy these notions. They feel pretty good, don't they?
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