Inspiration Quote by Lucky Stevens

“People think writers are always feeling inspired. That's only about 5% of it. 95% is the daily discipline to just sit and write.”

— Bruce Van Horn

“The idea itself is the ten percent inspiration; the hammering it into a viable, successful, memorable story is the ninety percent perspiration that follows.”

— Chris Claremont

“Being a writer is 1% inspiration, 50% perspiration and 49% explaining you're not a millionaire like J.K.Rowling.”

— Gabrielle Tozer

Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination.

— Louise Brooks

Writing is one per cent inspiration and 99 per cent prevarication.

— Richard Herring

“I've probably put my 10,000 hours into writing, but I believe writing well is also greatly influenced by certain intangibles like mood and inspiration.”

— Bill Loguidice

People often say that writing is ten percent inspiration and ninety percent perspiration. This is nonsense, of course. It's pretty much one hundred percent…

— Caprice Crane

Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.

— Roald Dahl

“Writing is 90% struggle. The other 10% is up to you.”

— Iain Cameron Williams

For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.

— Zooey Deschanel

“Isn’t that why all writers write? To inspire their readers?”

— Adam Langer

Writing is 1% inspiration, 99% not getting distracted by the internet.

— Anonymous