30 Inspirational
Quotes on Writing
by A.E. Albert
It’s none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way.
– Ernest Hemingway
-Roald Dahl
"It is perfectly okay to write garbage—as long as you edit brilliantly."
-C. J. Cherryh
"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
"There's only one rule you need to remember: laugh at everything and forget everybody else! It sound egotistical, but it's actually the only cure for those suffering from self-pity."
- Anne Frank
-William Faulkner
"It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to fruition."
-Isaac Asimov
"If you can dream it, you can do it."
-Walt Disney
“Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.”
-Anne Lamott
"You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it."
"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things about all others: read a lot and write a lot…reading is the creative center of a writer’s life…you cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you."
-Stephen King
"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."
"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."
-Ernest Hemingway
“Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.”
“Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.”
-Meg Cabot"
“Writing is its
Own reward.”
-Henry Miller
The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see—every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties."
-Graham Greene
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
-Oscar Wilde
“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
-Stephen King
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
-Oscar Wilde
“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
-Stephen King
-Joyce Carol Oates
“You can’t wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club.”
-Jack London
“The secret of it all is to write in the gush, the throb, the flood of the moment–to put things down without deliberation–without worrying about their style–without waiting for a fit time or place. I always worked that way. I took the first scrap of paper, the first doorstep, the first desk, and wrote–wrote, wrote…By writing at the instant, the very heartbeat of life is caught.”
-Walt Whitman
"A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit."
“You can’t wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club.”
-Jack London
“The secret of it all is to write in the gush, the throb, the flood of the moment–to put things down without deliberation–without worrying about their style–without waiting for a fit time or place. I always worked that way. I took the first scrap of paper, the first doorstep, the first desk, and wrote–wrote, wrote…By writing at the instant, the very heartbeat of life is caught.”
-Walt Whitman
"A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit."
-Richard Bach
-Emily Dickinson
"If you have no critics you'll likely have no success."
-Malcolm X
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
"We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down."
"I am like a little pencil in God’s hand. He does the writing. The pencil has nothing to do with it."
-Mother Teresa
"Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do…Try to be better than yourself."
-John Steinbeck
"Write something that’s worth fighting over. Because that’s how you change things. That’s how you create art."
-Jeff Goins
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"If you have no critics you'll likely have no success."-Malcolm X
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
-Winston S. Churchill
"The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true."
"The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true."
-John Steinbeck
“As a child I scribbled; and my favorite pastime during the hours given me for recreation was to ‘write stories.’ Still, I had a dearer pleasure than this, which was the formation of castles in the air—the indulging in waking dreams—the following up trains of thought, which had for their subject the formation of a succession of imaginary incidents.”
“As a child I scribbled; and my favorite pastime during the hours given me for recreation was to ‘write stories.’ Still, I had a dearer pleasure than this, which was the formation of castles in the air—the indulging in waking dreams—the following up trains of thought, which had for their subject the formation of a succession of imaginary incidents.”
-Mary Shelley
"We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down."
-Kurt Vonnegut
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
-Albert Einstein
"The first draft of anything is shit."
-Ernest Hemingway
"The first draft of anything is shit."
-Ernest Hemingway
"I am like a little pencil in God’s hand. He does the writing. The pencil has nothing to do with it."
-Mother Teresa
"Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do…Try to be better than yourself."
-John Steinbeck
"Write something that’s worth fighting over. Because that’s how you change things. That’s how you create art."
-Jeff Goins
What are your favorite inspirational quotes? Let me know.
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You may be interested in the Following:
Self-Publishing: Setting Goals
Staying True to Your Vision When Writing a Book
Are Fellow Authors Colleagues or Competition?
My Mistake in Writing: I kept Thinking My Book Was Done
The Importance of Beta Readers
Writing: The Importance of Doing Your Own Research
How to Promote Yourself: Taking Baby Steps and Starting Out Small
Constructive Criticism: A Writer's Best FriendA Positive Attitude: A Writer's Armour
Joyce Carol Oates' quote is 100% true, but ironically it's what can keep me querying.. If I know, that The Representative's value doesn't have to be recognised by other human beings, the discrepancy of then seeing other art being recognised which I know does not exude The Representative's power is a reality that's simply too potent to ignore.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the quotes, Aimee.. here's some questions, that I've managed to come up with:
1) Squatter. Striker. Deserter.. Is name-calling humanity reaching its potential?
2) If both are valid (the facet reality, and the demise of it), when does losing one altogether become valid?
3) Anywhere is anything.. Isn't this the proof that the human race is meant to transcend?
4) If categorization (name-calling) is unavoidable, who decides who become the categorizers and who become the categorized?
5) If a global standstill has value, is this reality contradicted by the reality of quantity deducting its value?
6) Would you support it: a project, giving all of reality to all of humanity?