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I might see something on TV and get inspired to write about it. I can't sit down and plan to write. It has to come to me in my head like someone telling me the words.

— Aaron Neville

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Write down everything you can think of, no matter how stupid it seems. I always write down my thoughts throughout the day. Sometimes good things come out of it, and I'll find an idea to develop into a song, so my best advice is to try and draw inspiration from everyday things.

— Daya

The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down.

— Eric Brown

If one day a TV series comes into my head, and that is what I want to write, I'll write it. It just depends what story is in my brain at the time.

— Evangeline Lilly

I think I'm drawn to writing about something which feels intense and important.

— Rose Tremain

I never sit down to write. When I'm moved, I do it. I just wait for it to come. You just hear it. I can't really describe writing. It's in my head.

— Lenny Kravitz

If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.

— Wanda Jackson

I write, having seen what's happening already in my head. I see it as a movie, and I'm just writing down what's happening in front of me.

— Victoria Aveyard

✗Opposing Perspectives

I don't wait for inspiration. I get up and write every day.

— Cathy Marie Buchanan

I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday.

— Naguib Mahfouz

When I sit down to write, I don't think about writing about an idea or a given message. I just try to write a story which is hard enough.

— Jhumpa Lahiri