“Inspiration fires you up; motivation keeps you burning.”
“I’ve learned that no matter how inspired, fired up and motivated you might be, the dark clouds will always set in”
“Motivation gets you going; Inspiration keeps you going.”
“Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.”
“Inspiration is external and motivation is internal. It is up to me to provide the switch and you to flip it on!”
“But once an idea for a novel seizes a writer...well, it’s like an inner fire that at first warms you and makes you feel good but then begins to eat you alive, burn you up from within. You can’t just walk away from the fire; it keeps burning. The only way to put it out is to write the book.”