Quotes About Motivation

Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.

You can't go with the intention of writing something inspirational. You just have to go with the right heart.

The hardest thing about writing, for me, is facing the blank page.

You want to be a writer? Start writing. You want to be a filmmaker? Start shooting stuff on your phone right now.

Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action.

Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.

When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.

One of the most rewarding moments of my career is when I'm speaking to a child who tells me they have the same speech impediment that I had to overcome and that they're going to keep writing or sharing their voice after hearing my story.

You fail only if you stop writing.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

It's what the Pixies always said about music - they were writing songs and just trying not to be boring. That was their main motivation and it worked for them. I remember reading that and thinking that was the way to do it.

Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.

I read everything I could find in English - Twain, Henry James, Hemingway, really everything. And then after a while I started writing shorter pieces in English, and one of them got published in a literary magazine and that's how it got started. After that, graduate school didn't seem very important.

Writing never comes easy. The difference between Page 2 and Page Nothing is the difference between life and death.

For me, most of the anxiety and difficulty of writing takes place in the act of not writing. It's the procrastination, the thinking about writing that's difficult.

Whenever I'm writing a script, I'm scoring myself by playing the right kind of music.

The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me.

But even writing the column for the 'Telegraph,' that idea of working to deadlines, which as an actor that's not something you have to do in the same way. It's excited me into wanting to do a bit more.

I wanted to be a Teacher with a big T: teach the whole planet. It led me into writing and speaking to large groups.

I always want to be doing something - going somewhere, doing a project, teaching a class, writing an article. I try to use up my day. You have a limited time on this planet - try to use as much of it as you can for productive purposes.

It never is the who, is it? It's always the why. -Elphaba

Atheists' anger doesn't prove that we're selfish, or joyless, or miserable. It shows that we have compassion, and a sense of justice. We're angry because we see terrible harm all around us, and we feel desperately motivated to stop it.

S]tudies show that one of the best ways to lift your mood is to engineer an easy success, such as tackling a long-delayed chore.

It's so easy to wish that we'd made an effort in the past, so that we'd happily be enjoying the benefit now, but when now is the time when that effort must be made, as it always is, that prospect is much less inviting.