A Quick Search for Inspiration

The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it. ~ Leo Rosten

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards. ~ Robert Heinlein

You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair... You can come to the act with your fists clenched and your eyes narrowed, ready to kick ass and take down names. You can come to it because you want a girl to marry you or because you want to change the world. Come to it any way but lightly. Let me say it again: you must not come lightly to the blank page. ~ Stephen King

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. ~ Anton Chekhov

Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead. ~ Gene Fowler

One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's pen. ~ Leo Tolstoy

Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such. ~ Samuel Butler

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. ~ Toni Morrison