Inspirational Quotes from Writers
1. “And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” — Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
3. “Writing isn’t about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it’s about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well. It’s about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.” — Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
4. “What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you.” — Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing
7. “You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone’s soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows that they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift.” — Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
8. “We turn to stories and pictures and music because they show us who and what and why we are, and what our relationship is to life and death, what is essential, and what, despite the arbitrariness of falling beams, will not burn.” — Madeleine L’Engle, A Circle of Quiet
11. “First, you write for yourself. always, to make sense of experience and the world around you. It’s one of the ways I stay sane. Our stories, our books, our films are how we cope with the random trauma-inducing chaos of life as it plays.” — Bruce Springsteen, Born to Run
How to Use These Inspirational Writing Quotes
There is a plethora of great quotes here by authors who need inspiration just like we do. Whether you’re learning how to become an author or whether you’ve self-published 30 books already, having your favorite writing quotes around will only help your practice.
#1 – Keep a journal of writing quotes
Buy a journal or a simple notebook for writing quotes. Each day, write down several quotes from this list. Start your writing sessions by repeating several of your favorite quotes. You can choose several a day. Make this a daily practice. Get into the habit of carrying the journal with you. In addition to the best writing quotes, you can use the journal for making notes on your book.
#2 – Share these quotes with authors
#3 – Post the quotes around your writing space
37 Quotes About Writing
1. No greater agony…
2. Every secret of a writer’s soul…
3. Show me the glint of light…
4. Surprise…
5. The first draft…
6. One of the exquisite pleasures of writing…
“I would write a book, or a short story, at least three times — once to understand it, the second time to improve the prose, and a third to compel it to say what it still must say. Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to reform it. Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.”
— Bernard Malamud
7. The difference between…
8. The whooshing sound…
9. Write as clearly as I can…
10. Words can be like x-rays…
11. A lesson in creative writing…
12. Find the right words…
13. When I sit down to write…
“When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, ‘I am going to produce a work of art.’ I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing.”
— George Orwell
14. Only a great man can write it…
15. Leave out the parts…
16. My courage is reborn…
17. A person is a fool to become a writer…
“A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it.” (Click to Tweet)
— Roald Dahl
18. No one knows…
19. To discover…
20. Wants to be written…
21. Writing is easy…
22. Never have to change…
23. No shortcuts…
24. Irritated by my own writing…
“I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.”
— Gustave Flaubert
25. Mighty book, mighty theme…
26. Good writing…
27. Writing advice…
28. The Muse…
“Cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.”
— William S. Burroughs
29. Using two words…
30. Greatest part of a writer…
31. Great writer…
“Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old-fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he’ll eventually make some kind of career for himself as writer.”
— Ray Bradbury
32. Do not hoard…
33. You can make anything…
34. Have something to say…
35. Failed writers…
36. Wake up…
37. Adverbs…
24 Writing Quotes of Encouragement
1. Waited for perfection…
2. The good writers…
3. Start writing…
4. A writer needs three things…
“A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.”
— William Faulkner
5. Didn’t quit…
6. One true sentence…
7. Part of the learning process…
“You have to resign yourself to wasting lots of trees before you write anything really good. That’s just how it is. It’s like learning an instrument. You’ve got to be prepared for hitting wrong notes occasionally, or quite a lot. That’s just part of the learning process.” (Click to Tweet)
— J.K. Rowling
8. Road to achievement…
9. Writing is more difficult…
10. Tell it as best you can…
11. What you have to say…
12. Pouring yourself into your work…
13. Like driving a car at night…
14. Be brave…
15. Start somewhere…
16. Rejection slips…
17. Ideas are like rabbits…
18. Ideas are like rabbits…
19. Meant to read it…
20. They know it…
“People say, ‘What advice do you have for people who want to be writers?’ I say, they don’t really need advice, they know they want to be writers, and they’re gonna do it. Those people who know that they really want to do this and are cut out for it, they know it.”
— R.L. Stine
21. Writing prompts…
22. None of their business…
23. Keep it simple…
24. Surviving the rollercoaster…
Source:
https://www.audible.com/blog/quotes-writing
https://selfpublishing.com/writing-quotes/
https://smartblogger.com/writing-quotes/