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Any woman with kinky textured hair - can wear it, love it and manage it. She only needs the right tools, inspiration and motivation. — Monica Millner
everything that is scattered
comes together in words
everything that is lost
comes back in poetry. — Sanober Khan
Writers and artists know that ethereal moment, when just one, fleeting something
a chill, an echo, the click of a lamp, a question - -ignites the flame of an entire work that blazes suddenly into consciousness. — Nadine C. Keels
Professors will lecture with more inspiration if they occasionally alternate the classroom with the beach: authors will write better when, as Macaulay used to do, they write for two hours, then pitch quoits, and then go back to their writing. But certainly more than the mere mechanical alternation is involved. — Rollo May
So I took up those poems with which they seemed to have taken most trouble and asked them what they meant, in order that I might at the same time learn something from them. I am ashamed to tell you the truth, gentlemen, but I must. Almost all the bystanders might have explained the poems better than their authors could. I soon realized that poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say. — Plato
We as authors sign a pact with our readers; they'll go on reading because they trust us to play fair with them and deliver what we've promised. — Pamela Glass Kelly
THE HONEYEATER story was mesmerizing: the story took hold of me and I felt compelled to write it. I was also inspired by a few female authors (among them, Doris Lessing and Isabel Allende) I've admired over the years
women who preceded me and who gave me the courage to even begin. — Yolanda A. Reid
Life is beauty simply breathing. — A.D. Posey
some poems froth
and foam and rise...
out of my morning cup of
mist-sweetened coffee. — Sanober Khan
Write and your experiences with others. Never underestimate your writings. It can bring hope and inspiration to many people. — Lailah Gifty Akita
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
Among the multitude of scholars and authors, we feel no hallowing presence; we are sensible of a knack and skill rather than of inspiration; they have a light, and know not whence it comes, and call it their own; their talent is some exaggerated faculty, some overgrown member, so that their strength is a disease. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
How do I get inspired? Life. — Alex G. Zarate
Sand lines my soul which is filled with the breath of the ocean. — A.D. Posey
Writing is an art, and true art comes from inspiration, which makes me wonder what kind of fucked-up lives some of my favorite authors have led. Surely — Stevie J. Cole
A pen name is a nickname. — A.D. Posey
You -have- to love your monster. — Philippa Dowding
We write to strengthen our soul and the spirit of other souls. — Lailah Gifty Akita
Write something worth reading and your voice will be heard. — Teresa Mummert
In his earliest youth, he had drawn inspiration from really bad authors, as you may have seen from his style; as he grew older, he lost his taste for them, but the excellent authors just didn't fill him with the same enthusiasm — Gustave Flaubert
I am often asked by editors, fans, friends about what I read or which authors influence my writing.
My answer seems surprising to them, for people expect names and quotes from me, while I give them the source of "feelings".
I believe that becoming a writer is not about finding similarities, nor following the same trends, with different accessories. I often un-follow subscriptions and newsfeeds when I want to write about something.
When I write I follow, read and am inspired by Life, People and Passion. I guess my "current" is personal and universal.
(Soar) — Soar
Remember: Bad timing equals great plot twists. — A.L. Mabry
The inspiration of a single book has made preachers, poets, philosophers, authors, and statesmen. On the other hand, the demoralization of a single book has sometimes made infidels, profligates, and criminals. — Orison Swett Marden
Authors can alter your life. — Bernard Kelvin Clive
Love is alive when there's music in your heart. — A.D. Posey
Inspiring others is the pathway to your own discoveries — Robin Craig Clark
He without inspiration and motivation exists no more in a world full of innovations and inventions! — Darnaya Darice
The books we read in childhood don't exist anymore; they sailed off with the wind, leaving bare skeletons behind. Whoever still has in him the memory and marrow of childhood should rewrite these books as he experienced them. — Bruno Schulz
A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before. — Brandi L. Bates
Inspiration: The process by which God worked through the human authors of the Bible to communicate His revelation. The term derives from the Greek theopneustos, meaning "God-breathed" (2 Tim. 3:16), and refers to God as the ultimate source of the Scriptures. — Anonymous
[The inspiration that comes to authors of fiction] is not an act of intelligence. — Mary Lee Settle
how these words, wait to die
in the arms of all the poetry..
yet to be written. — Sanober Khan
Peace is when we look upon the world together. — A.D. Posey
You heard me cry long before I knew my voice. — A.D. Posey
Knowing that others want to read my writing is the greatest inspiration to write. — David Rose
Value yourself and those who are in your company will reflect the same image. — Steven Cuoco
What is hell to a writer? Hell is being too busy to find the time to write or being unable to find the inspiration. Hell is suddenly finding the words but being away from your notebook or typewriter. Hell is when the verses slip away through your fingers and they never return again. — R.M. Engelhardt
Is every writer's keyboard a spill magnet? — A.D. Posey
I've always said "Writer's Block" is a myth. There is no such thing as writer's block, only writers trying to force something that isn't ready yet. Sometimes I don't write for weeks. And then all of the sudden I'll get a rush of inspiration and you can't drag me away from my notebook. But I don't stress out if I don't hit some arbitrary word count each day or if I go a few days without writing something. — Julie Ann Dawson
We are all the authors of our own fates; but we have gotten so lost in the technicalities of forming letters and stringing words together that we've forgotten what it really means to write. — Cristen Rodgers
The process of creation can be unpredictable and, in some way, similar to love: the brightest waves of inspiration may sometimes occur in wrong timing, wrong places, or even with wrong people. — Sahara Sanders
I am quite scandalous, you see. I come packaged with unpredictable moments, brutal honesty, calamitous outbursts, the ghastly need for love, a fiendish lack of filter, the horrific need to question everything, nauseating affection, offensive kindness, indecent spirituality, obscene beauty, monstrous creativity, barbaric embellishments, contemptuous passion, sinful childhood traumas, unscrupulous hobbies, vexatious caring, abominable sensitivity, reprehensible humor, hideous sarcasm, displeasing feelings, unpalatable confidence, offensive compassion, villainous inspiration and a devilish wit. I am quite grotesque in my imperfectness and I am not ashamed to admit it. — Shannon L. Alder
How....will I ever truly depict you?
You're perfect, my writing isn't. — Sanober Khan
Writing is ... being able to take something whole and fiercely alive that exists inside you in some unknowable combination of thought, feeling, physicality, and spirit, and to then store it like a genie in tense, tiny black symbols on a calm white page. If the wrong reader comes across the words, they will remain just words. But for the right readers, your vision blooms off the page and is absorbed into their minds like smoke, where it will re-form, whole and alive, fully adapted to its new environment. — Mary Gaitskill
Some authors have what amounts to a metaphysical approach. They admit to inspiration. Sudden and unaccountable urgencies to writecatapult them out of sleep and bed. For myself, I have never awakened to jot down an idea that was acceptable the following morning. — Fannie Hurst
I'm often asked which author I am most inspired by, but I'm inspired by all authors. It takes a great deal of courage to pour your onto paper and watch silently as the world judges it loudly. — Charity Parkerson
True authors don't write for fame or to make a name or money, they write to make impact — Bernard Kelvin Clive