A collection of timeless quotes about writing to inspire and unlock the power of words and thoughts:
Logic will get you from A to B.
Imagination will take you everywhere.
(Albert Einstein)
If you want to be a writer, write.
Write and write and write.
If you stop, start again.
(Anne Rice)
The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
(André Gide)
The worst thing you do write is better than the best thing you don’t write.
(April Young Fritz)
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
(Benjamin Franklin)
Regardless of the popular literary trend of the times, write the thing that lies close to your heart.
(Bess Streeter Aldrich)
You can make anything by writing.
(C.S. Lewis)
When writing a novel, a writer should create living people; people, not characters. A character is a caricature.
(Ernest Hemingway)
A writer never has a vacation. For a writer, life consists of either writing or thinking about writing.
(Eugene Ionesco)
A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
(Friedrich Nietzsche)
Never put off writing until you are better at it.
(Gary Henderson)
Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.
(Gloria Steinem)
Write like you’re in love.
Edit like you’re in charge.
(James Scott Bell)
Writing is my time machine, takes me to the precise time and place I belong.
(Jeb Dickerson)
Writers are always selling someone out.
(Joan Didion)
Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Nothing will stop you being creative so effectively as the fear of making a mistake.
(John Cleese)
There are many reasons why novelists write but they all have one thing in common a need to create an alternative world.
(John Fowles)
Become emotionally involved.
If you don’t care about your characters, your readers won’t either.
(Judy Blume)
Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.
(Jules Renard)
Every sentence must do one of two things–reveal character or advance the action.
(Kurt Vonnegut)
Write. Rewrite. When not writing or rewriting, read. I know of no shortcuts.
(Larry L. King.)
Revision means throwing out the boring crap and making what’s left sound natural.
(Laurie Halse Anderson)
Write from the heart. A book without a pulse is like a person without a spirit.
(Linda Radke)
If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.
(Martin Luther)
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)
Good fiction creates its own reality.
(Nora Roberts)
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
(Rudyard Kipling)
Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.
(Sholem Asch)
It is impossible to discourage the real writers — they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
(Sinclair Lewis)
Good books don’t give up all their secrets at once.
(Stephen King)
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.
(Stephen King)
The scariest moment is always just before you start.
(Stephen King)
With writing, the way you feel changes everything.
(Stephenie Meyer)
The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
(Sylvia Plath)
If there’s a book you really want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
(Toni Morrison)
Kate Halena 