Writing Motivation Creation Quotes & Sayings

There are really only two ways to react to the extraordinary. The first is to ponder the grand purpose until all the fun is sucked away, the second is to enjoy it. — Victor LaValle

Life is a one-way journey towards the unknown and without a destination. — Debasish Mridha

it is not dancing toy animals that are an endless source of delight for infants, but rather having control. — Barry Schwartz

I can't speak for other writers, but I write to create something that is better than myself, I think that's the deepest motivation, and it is so because I'm full of self-loathing and shame. Writing doesn't make me a better person, nor a wiser and happier one, but the writing, the text, the novel, is a creation of something outside of the self, an object, kind of neutralized by the objectivity of literature and form; the temper, the voice, the style; all in it is carefully constructed and controlled. This is writing for me: a cold hand on a warm forehead. — Karl Ove Knausgard

The strength of survival in life lies in strong-minded soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Something was wrong with a world where people came and went so easily. — Anne Tyler

If we are not a little bit uncomfortable every day, we're not growing. All the good stuff is outside our comfort zone. — Jack Canfield

You never know whether you've already experienced your greatest moment or your worst — Dean Cavanagh

Keep your head up because one day one person will fight like hell for you, the same as you would for them, and it will be a deep love. So keep your head up. — Carlos Salinas

I question whether I want to be integrated into America as it stands now, with its complacency and materialism, its soullessness ... — Paule Marshall

He has discovered the truths that keep writers chained to their desks: the primacy of the inner life and the sheer exhilaration of creating a world from scratch. — Barbara Klein Moss

The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it. — Sylvia Plath

It was not often that Flay approved of happiness in others. He saw in happiness the seeds of independence, and in independence the seeds of revolt. But on an occasion such as this it was different, for the spirit of convention was being rigorously adhered to, and in between his ribs Mr. Flay experienced twinges of pleasure. — Mervyn Peake

Assemblyman Isaac Hunt, who later became a close friend, would never forget the first time he saw Roosevelt. "He came in as if he had been ejected by a catapult," Hunt recalled. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

I believe in you. That is enough. — Dan Alatorre

Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." "Miss — Harper Lee