Despised Quote by Lois McMaster Bujold

The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I…

— Eric Brown

I don't believe in inspiration. I write when I can't avoid writing anymore.

— Aleksandar Hemon

Never stop writing because you have run out of ideas. Fill the lacunae of inspiration by tidily copying out what is already written.

— Walter Benjamin

Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.

— Roald Dahl

Inspiration comes from the act of writing.

— Steve Doll

It isn't that inspiration doesn't exist, but it comes only with writing.

— John Braine

I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o'clock every day.

— William Faulkner

I notice inspiration when it comes by. I don't sit down at my desk and try to write.

— Gary Panter

I feel like part of getting better at writing is knowing where to find that inspiration. Right after something happens to me, the first…

— Troye Sivan

My writing is inspired by just about everything, yet I am unaware of so much of the process.

— Hubert Selby, Jr

I can't explain inspiration. A writer is either compelled to write or not. And if I waited for inspiration I wouldn't really be a…

— Toni Morrison

Whatever inspiration comes to me; I always try to write about.

— Skip Marley