“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”

“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”

“Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club.”

“If you only write when you’re inspired you may be a fairly decent poet, but you’ll never be a novelist because you’re going to have to make your word count today and those words aren’t going to wait for you whether you’re inspired or not.You have to write when you’re not inspired. And you have to write the scenes that don’t inspire you. And the weird thing is that six months later, a year later, you’ll look back at them and you can’t remember which scenes you wrote when you were inspired and which scenes you just wrote because they had to be written next.The process of writing can be magical. …Mostly it’s a process of putting one word after another.”

“You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”

“If you can't be inspired, be the inspiration.”