Writing inspirations and quotes

1. Write about a time when the power went out? Did you use candles? Did you need them?

2. Where does a smile come from? Write about the person from your past or present who made or makes you smile the most.

3. What place do you think of when you think of total darkness? Write about that place.

4. "When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace." - Sri Chimnoy Ghose

5. "A choice, right now, between fear and love." - Bill Hicks

6. "The eyes of love, instead see all of us as one." - Bill Hicks

More quotes for writing

Quotes for writing...

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer." - Albert Camus

"In summer, the song sings itself." - William Carlos Williams

"A life without love is like a year without summer." - Swedish Proverb

Tom Waits Quotes

Quotes from a Tom Waits interview...

1. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

2. We are monkeys with money and guns.

3. Real beauty: oil stains left by cars in a parking lot.

4. False teeth in pawnshop windows

5. A homeless man with an operatic voice singing the word "bacteria" from an empty dumpster in Chinatown

6. It was a train station of music with all the sounds milling around...

7. "Fire is the sun unwinding itself from the wood." - Bucky Fuller

8. A man you'd want in the boat with you at the end of the world

9. Headlights hit by a shotgun

10. Bacon frying

11. Piano lessons coming from an apartment window

12. He is a giant among men