Sometimes we just need to know we’re not alone, we’re not (too) crazy, and that other writers have been here before us. Writing is hard and a little encouragement can go a long way!
Here are some inspirational, go-getting, and encouraging quotes for writers no matter where we are on the journey. Enjoy, and I hope they bring joy to your day! Special shout out to anyone doing NaNoWriMo this month- hang in there! I think you are amazing and brave and I believe in you!
Encouraging Quotes For Writers
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“One thing that helps is to give myself permission to write badly. I tell myself that I’m going to do my five or 10 pages no matter what, and that I can always tear them up the following morning if I want. I’ll have lost nothing—writing and tearing up five pages would leave me no further behind than if I took the day off.” -Lawrence Block
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“Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.” -Ray Bradbury
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“Keep a small can of WD-40 on your desk—away from any open flames—to remind yourself that if you don’t write daily, you will get rusty.” -George Singleton
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“When I say work I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs.” -Margaret Laurence
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“Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now.”-Annie Dillard
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“A book is simply the container of an idea—like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.”-Angela Carter
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“The truth is rarely pure and never simple..” -Oscar Wilde
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“It always seems impossible until it’s done”. -Nelson Mandela
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“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
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“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.” – Robert Frost
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“The scariest moment is always just before you start.” -Stephen King
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“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.” -Louis L’Amour
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“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” -Walt Disney
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“It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” -Vince Lombardi
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“People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” -Rob Siltanen
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“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” -Og Mandino
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“Knowing is not enough; We must apply. Wishing is not enough; We must do.” -Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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“Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” -Henry Ford
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“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” -Zig Ziglar
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“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.” -Kurt Vonnegu
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“Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.” -Franz Kafka
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“A word after a word after a word is power.” -Margaret Atwood
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“You must write every single day of your life… You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads… may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.” -Ray Bradbury
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“This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It’s that easy, and that hard.” -Neil Gaiman
- “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” -Winston Churchill
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“You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.” -Jack London
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“Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!” -Dr Seuss
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“Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.” -Newt Gingrich
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“Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.” -David Joseph Schwartz
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“I don’t stop when I’m tired. I only stop when I’m done.” -Marilyn Monroe
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“Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got to keep going.” -Chantal Sutherland
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Happy writing today everyone! What’s your favorite encouraging quote? 🙂
