25 Quotes to Inspire Your Creative Writing
Looking for a little advice or motivation to inspire your creativity? Below, we have put together a list of 25 quotes from famous authors, mentors, and other wise individuals to help you on your writing journey.
1) “There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people’s books and write your own.” – Albert Einstein
2) “Good fiction’s job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.” – David Foster Wallace
3) “A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.” – Richard Bach
4) “The good ideas come first. The skill to communicate them brilliantly in a way that appeals to readers or to an audience takes years of practice.” – Robin Mizell
5) “The key to all story endings is to give the audience what it wants, but not in the way it expects.” – William Goldman
6) “Description begins in the writer’s imagination but should finish in the readers’s.” – Stephen King
7) “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; truth isn’t.” – Mark Twain
8) “Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.” – C.S. Lewis
9) “Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.” – Anne Lamont
10) “Don’t ‘be a writer.’ Be writing.” – William Faulkner
11) “A writer never finds the time to write. A writer makes it. If you don’t have the drive, the discipline, and the desire, then you can have all the talent in the world, and you aren’t going to finish a book.” – Nora Roberts
12) “A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper.” – E.B. White
13) “When all else fails, write what your heart tells you. You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” – Mark Twain
14) “You have to follow your own voice. You have to be yourself when you write. In effect, you have to announce, ‘This is me, this what I stand for, this is what you get when you read me. I’m doing the best I can – buy me or not – but this is who I am as a writer.” – David Morrell
15) “Ideas come from curiosity.” – Walt Disney
16) “To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.” – Anne Rice
17) “Sometimes the ideas just come to me. Other times I have to sweat and almost bleed to make ideas come. It’s a mysterious process, but I hope I never find out exactly how it works. I like a mystery, as you may have noticed.” – J.K. Rowling
18) “Voice is not just the result of a single sentence or paragraph or page. It’s not even the sum total of a whole story. It’s all your work laid out across the table like the bones and fossils of an unidentified carcass.” – Chuck Wendig
19) “Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself.” – Mark Twain
20) “Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.” – Louis L’Amour
21) “Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it’s the only way you can do anything really good.” – William Faulkner
22) Rejection slips, or form letters, however tactfully phrased, are lacerations of the soul, if not quite inventions of the devil – but there is no way around them.” – Isaac Asimov
23) “Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works.” – Virginia Woolf
24) “Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any.” – Orson Scott
25) “You can only write by putting words on a paper one at a time.” – Sandra Brown
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