“You don't need to wait for inspiration to write. It's easier to be inspired while writing that while not writing…”
Source: Fiction Writer's Workshop
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Josip Novakovich 1
Canadian writer 1956Related quotes
“I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.”
“I only write when I am inspired. Fortunately I am inspired at 9 o'clock every morning.”
“My objection to metre is that it enables people to write verse with no poetic inspiration.”
Lecture on Modern Poetry (1914)
As quoted in Woman As Writer (1978) by Jeannette L. Webber and Joan Grumman, p. 42
Context: The preoccupation of the novelist: how to capture the living moments, was answered by the diary. You write while you are alive. You do not preserve them in alcohol until the moment you are ready to write about them.
On using personal history in “Fruits of the Same Tree: An Interview with Stephanie Powell Watts” https://fictionwritersreview.com/interview/an-interview-with-stephanie-powell-watts/ in Fiction Writers Review (2012 Aug 6)
Young Miles (1997), "Author's Afterword"
Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words (1982), p. 145
Context: In the final analysis you find spiritual truth through your own higher nature. Your higher nature is a drop in the ocean of God - and has access to the ocean. Sometimes your higher nature is awakened through the inspiration of beautiful surroundings or beautiful music, bringing you insights of truth. Sometimes you see the truth written or hear the truth spoken, and your higher nature confirms it. Or you directly perceive the truth from the inside through an awakening of the higher nature, which is my way. All the inspired writing came from the inner source, and you too can receive from that source. Be still and know.