Quotes On Writing
It’s a new year and, therefore, we want to help kick it off right with a collection of our favorite inspirational quotes on writing! We always start a new year with resolutions, but often it’s hard to stick with our goals. Certainly, that’s where we can come in 🙂
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Above all, we hope these 50 Inspirational Quotes on Writing will keep you motivated and energized throughout 2021.
Inspirational Quotes on Writing: Imagination
1. “The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.” – Toni Morrison
- How You Write a Book, According to Neil Gaiman. From Carole Wolfe, author of My Best Mistake.
- In this simple, easy-to-read resource, I’ve compiled a list of inspiring, motivational quotes about writing and life that have been shared with the world by famous authors, public figures, and great literary minds, both past and present: 28 Inspirational Writing Quotes; 37 Quotes About Writing; 24 Writing Quotes of Encouragement.
- 50+ Inspiring Quotes About Writing and Writers by Joe Bunting 6 comments The best way to become a better writer is to write and then to publish your writing, whether you publish it on a blog, in a book, or with a close friend.
- The sooner you understand the power of writing and storytelling and building these skills, the better you will be. Check out these great quotes for kids about writing and storytelling and then take action with our resources below. Quotes for Kids About Writing “I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”.
2. “Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.” – William Wordsworth
3. “The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
4. “I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see, and what it means. What I want and what I fear.” – Joan Didion
5. “They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream by night.” – Edgar Allan Poe
6. “The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.” – Gustav Flaubert
7. “I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and look at it, until it shines.” – Emily Dickinson
8. “That’s what you’re looking for as a writer when you’re working. You’re looking for your own freedom.” – Philip Roth
9. “Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.” – George Bernard Shaw
10. “Creativity is a combination of discipline and childlike spirit.” – Robert Greene
11. “Writing is the painting of the voice.” – Voltaire
12. “It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.” – Paulo Coelho
13. “I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere and it can do anything.” – Alice Walker
Inspirational Quotes on Writing: Motivation
14. “Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself… it’s a self-exploratory operation that is endless.” – Harper Lee
15. “If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.” – Henry David Thoreau
16. “There are significant moments in everyone’s day that can make literature. That’s what you ought to write about.” – Raymond Carver
17. “Keep asking questions because people will always want to know the answer. Open with a question and don’t answer it until the end.” – Lee Child
18. “But when people say, did you always want to be a writer? I have to say no! I always was a write.” – Ursula K. Le Guin
19. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” – Maya Angelou
20. “If I waited for perfection, I would never write a word.” – Margaret Atwood
21. “You should write stories because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page.” – Annie Proulx
22. “I write only because there is a voice within me that will not be stilled.” – Sylvia Plath
23. “If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart.” – Terry Brooks
24. “If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn’t expecting it.” – H.G. Wells
25. “Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.” – Tom Stoppard
26. “The secret of it all is to write… without waiting for a fit time or place.” – Walt Whitman
27. “No one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.” – Charles de Lint
28. “Successful writing is one part inspiration and two parts sheer stubbornness.” – Gillian Flynn
29. “I write books because I have always been fascinated by stories and language, and because I love thinking about what makes people tick.” – Lois Lowry
30. “As a writer, you should not judge. You should understand.” – Ernest Hemingway
31. “If you don’t see the book you want on the shelf, write it.” – Beverly Cleary
32. “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
33. “Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Make some light.” – Kate DiCamillo
Inspirational Quotes on Writing: Process
34. “A writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway.” – Junot Diaz
35. “The first draft is you just telling yourself the story.” – Terry Pratchett
36. “Write a page a day. Only 300 words and in a year you have written a novel.” – Stephen King
37. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Agatha Christie
38. “The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to make things up.” – Donna Tart
39. “Writing is an act of faith, not a grammar trick.” – E.B. White
40. “Good stories are not written. They are rewritten.” – Phyllis Whitney
41. “The first draft is a skeleton. Just bare bones. The rest of the story comes later with revising.” – Judy Bloom
42. “When you are describing a shape, or sound, or tint, don’t state the matter plainly, but put it in a hint. And learn to look at all things with a sort of mental squint.” – Lewis Carroll
43. “You may not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.” – Jodi Picoult
44. “Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Quotes About Writing Process
45. “The secret to editing your work is simple: You need to become its reader instead of its writer.” – Zadie Smith
46. “I’m writing a first draft and reminding myself that I’m simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.” – Shannon Hale
Quotes On Writing
47. “Don’t labor over a little cameo work in which every word is to be perfect. Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind.” – Joyce Carol Oates
48. “If you fall in love with the vision and not your words, the rewriting will become easier.” – Nora DeLoach
49. “Be willing and unafraid to write badly, because often the bad stuff clears the way for good, or forms a base on which to build something better.” – Jennifer Egan
50. “Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.” – Ray Bradbury
To sum up, write it all down this year. After that, visit BNPress.com to become a published author! Importantly, we have plenty of tools to help new authors. From trusted partners to assist with editing, formatting, or design, to marketing and promotions. Each step of the way, we will be there to help.
Write On!