Writing can be a hard and solitary activity at times. Quotes from famous authors can guide and encourage us along the writing journey as well as hopefully inspire our creativity.
Enjoy these quotes, and feel free to comment below with any of your favorites that I may have missed!
Writing Quotes
“Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself.”
Mark Twain
“Words are our most inexhaustible source of magic.”
J. K. Rowling
“The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.”
Ernest Gaines
“You fail only if you stop writing.”
Ray Bradbury.
“The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style.”
Stephen King
“The writer is by nature a dreamer— a conscious dreamer.”
Carson McCullers
“It’s not the fear of writing that blocks people, it’s the fear of not writing well; something quite different.”
Scott Berkun
“There is only one plot — things are not what they seem.”
Jim Thompson
“It is only by writing, not dreaming about it, that we develop our own style.”
P.D. James
“The only writer to whom you should compare yourself is the writer you were yesterday.”
David Schlosser
“Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it’s the only way you can do anything really good.”
William Faulkner
“Good writing is rewriting.”
Truman Capote
“Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but most of all, endurance.”
James Baldwin
“Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.”
Anne Lamott
“The most important thing in life is to stop saying ‘I wish’ and start saying ‘I will.’ Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.”
Charles Dickens
“You can make anything by writing.”
C.S. Lewis
“I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love.”
Anita Diamant
“Serious writers write, inspired or not. Over time they discover that routine is a better friend than inspiration.”
Ralph Keyes
“There is no such thing as fantasy unrelated to reality.”
Maurice Sendak
Happy writing today my friends! 🙂
