Writing Stimulation Quotes

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

Like everything, what compels one to put pen to paper is a great question.

I have music on when I write. I don't like the isolation otherwise and find the silence deadening.

Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories I hear, misheard words or lyrics, dreams... Motivation? The memory of the rush I get from a really good writing session - even on a bad day, I know I'll find that again if I keep going.

If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.

I have to have music on when writing, or else the silence swallows me whole.

There's music every day. I don't think I could write without it. Not that I listen while I'm writing. It's more hearing a piece of music that I want to somehow convert into prose, as a creative inspiration.

I think anybody alert to the inspiration to write has to be kind of sensitized to the unexpected.

I love it when I start a book that is so good that all I want to do is get back to my own writing, in a competitive way.

Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.