Truth Writing Inspiration Quotes & Sayings

It didn't matter what we did or where we did it as long as we were together. We knew we'd found what most people either pursue in years of futile search or dismiss as a fantasy at the outset: the missing half of ourselves. The real thing. — John Perry Barlow

If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist. — Neil Gaiman

Crying cleanses the soul. — A.D. Posey

Does Carthage even have forests? Did Virgil know for sure or was it just convenient for his story? Virgil was a professional liar. This would not be the only place where he pruned the truth until it was as artificial as an espaliered pear tree against a wall, forced into an expedient shape and bearing the demanded fruit. — Kij Johnson

People don't remember lessons. They remember stories. — Kamand Kojouri

To reach the pinnacle of your writings potential; productivity becomes obsolete. — Marston James

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

Seldom indeed does human virtue rise From trunk to branch. — Dante Alighieri

Writing is a struggle against the silence where words can have a powerful impact in just a split second and change your life forever ... — Lisa Jones

Correspondence, which bears much the same relation to personal intercourse that the books of dried plats I sometimes see do to the living and fresh flowers in the lanes and meadows. — Elizabeth Gaskell

Her words dance on the page. — A.D. Posey

Will had discovered, even before coming to the City, that his muse was, like all muses, an incredibly finicky and temperamental mistress. He'd had several good short stories over the years, a few of them bordering on brilliant, and some of them had even been published; but these gifts from his imaginary goddess of inspiration were, in truth, frustratingly infrequent. She would hang around and whisper in his ears for hours, or days, or weeks, and then suddenly go off on an extended vacation without informing Will of her whereabouts or when she planned to return. — Chris Lester

Writing has been sewn into my soul and I'm afraid my thoughts have no choice but to be the truth to the story and my hand the connection between the pen and paper. With every word written, my heart finds its beat and inspiration fuels the desire to fulfill this need. — Amber M. Royse

Your life is a story. Write the one you want to read. — A.D. Posey

The best stories are like the best burgers: big, juicy, and messy. — A.D. Posey

The publicity and hoopla was never important to me. — Jesse Stone

Do you want to make a change?...Do you want this change? Then let's move at God's pace. — Jaachynma N.E. Agu

It is not merely enough to love literature if one wishes to spend one's life as a writer. It is a dangerous undertaking on the most primitive level. For, it seems to me, the act of writing with serious intent involves enormous personal risk. It entails the ongoing courage for self-discovery. It means one will walk forever on the tightrope, with each new step presenting the possiblity of learning a truth about oneself that is too terrible to bear. — Harlan Ellison

I was in Asia and people asked me about being considered sex symbol. I don't know if that's good or not, because where I come from, sex isn't something you're allowed to talk about. — Bai Ling

A good writer reveals beauty in the mundane and truth in tragedy. Words are a tool; a currency of the mind, and the best writers weave passages into our hearts that our bones remember. — Maria Reeves

Tonight I Can Write — Pablo Neruda

A ring don't make a bride, that's all. — Catherynne M Valente

The truth is there isn't anything to me at all. All I know is that I can't sleep well, I can't dream well and I'm quite in love with you. That's all there is to me. My greatest feature is my admiration for you. I know it's not healthy. Like my insomnia. Like my dreamless nights. You make living alright. My nightmares come when I think of a night without Valeria. That's when I realise you're dead. That's when I remember you've been gone for years. That's when I remember I'm awake. And I wait for this dream called Life to leave me to my peace once and for all and forever. — F.K. Preston

Be a burst of joy. — A.D. Posey

Loss; is the returning of what never actually belonged to us in the first place. — Yasmin Mogahed

That kiss was amazing; it had all the passion and longing we had been holding onto for so long. That is when the dam finally broke for me and I started crying. I knew right then that Hunter was the only one I wanted. He was my happily ever after. — Megan Smith

In the long-run, the best proof of a good character is good actions. — John Stuart Mill

We're not mad at God, just like atheists don't hate Santa or Unicorns, they're just not there! — Hemant Mehta

I want to lay under the blanket of sky and laugh while the stars wink and we write our story. — A.D. Posey

The Democrats just want to ram it down my ear with a victory — George H. W. Bush

Whenever he started a book with two solitary travellers riding along the brink of a desperate ravine he knew he was safe. The — W. Somerset Maugham

Intuition is truth. — A.D. Posey

Over all this lay Hoppie's dictum: First with the head and then with the heart. Winning was something you worked at intellectually, emotion clouds the mind and is its natural enemy. This made for a loneliness which often let me aching to share an emotion but equally afraid that if I did so I would reveal a weakness which could later be used against me. — Bryce Courtenay

Isola doesn't approve of small talk and believes in breaking the ice by stomping on it. — Mary Ann Shaffer

You're creating a different world and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into that world, whether it be actually something that you recognize from your own life or not. — Christian Bale

To all those whom seek the iron words of the community: if your book is good, it will stand on its own. Be it a short story, a novel, a novella, a chapter book, a poetry book, a chapbook, a manga or a graphic novel ... it will seek reviews by itself. You need to do nothing with it. Do nothing but write. Give up review seeking and focus on writing, for that is what becomes you in the end. — L'Poni Baldwin

I die a little everyday, in trying to revive what I lost yesterday! — Jasleen Kaur Gumber

You should choose organisations that are going to be flexible and supportive and recognise people are going through different stages in their careers and actually need different sorts of support. — Gail Kelly