Writing Quotes - What to Write Quotes - Inspiration and Creativity, Creative Process

Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it.

Jesse Stuart



If I'm trying to sleep, the ideas won't stop. If I'm trying to write, there appears a barren nothingness.
Carrie Latet


You can't wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club.
Jack London


Now and again thousands of memories converge, harmonize, arrange themselves around a central idea in a coherent form, and I write a story.

Katherine Anne Porter




If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write.
William Somerset Maugham




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




Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.
Barbara Kingsolver


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