Writing is an art that transcends time, a means of expression that captures the essence of human thought and emotion. Whether you are a seasoned author or just beginning your literary journey, finding inspiration is crucial to keep the creative juices flowing. In the quest for motivation, there's nothing quite like the wisdom of those who have walked the path of words before us. This carefully curated collection of 37 inspiring writing quotes is designed to ignite your passion, challenge your perspective, and remind you of the boundless possibilities that lie within the world of writing. Dive in, and allow these timeless words to fuel your writer's soul.
1. “I wasn't born to cook or clean,but to read and write,if you don't like me the way I am,then go fly a kite.” - Besa Kosova
2. “I am the perfect version of me.” - Besa Kosova
3. “To be a writer you have to write -- and no academic degree is going to do the writing for you. ” - Michelle Richmond
4. “For me, I think it was a little easier to write thinking that nobody was listening.” - Dan Kennedy
5. “I don't write like this in order to show how clever and well read I am--though I am rather clever and well read as a matter of fact.” - John Heath-Stubbs
6. “You write a hit play the same way you write a flop” - William Saroyan
7. “When I write, I make discoveries about my feelings.” - Gail Carson Levine
8. “To write better you must develop your taste for truth. You have to pay more attention to what you really think, feel, see and want.” - Jonathan Price
9. “Find your quiet center of life and write from that to the world.” - Sarah Orne Jewett
10. “I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.” - Simone de Beauvoir
11. “What you listen in heart, are echoes of the past.What you write today, will be echoed in the future.” - Toba Beta
12. “I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.” - S E Hinton
13. “When I write, I feel like an armless leg less man with a crayon in his mouth.” - Vonnegut
14. “You need to establish a degree of privacy and solitude in order to write” - Pamela Glass Kelly
15. “I have an impulse to write all over the orange walls- I need an alphabet of endings ripped out of books, of hands pulled off of clocks, of cold stones, of shoes filled with nothing but wind.” - Jandy Nelson
16. “Any magazine-cover hack can splash paint around wildly and call it a nightmare, or a witches sabbath or a portrait of the devil; but only a great painter can make such a thing really scare or ring true. That's because only a real artist knows the anatomy of the terrible, or the physiology of fear.” - H.P. Lovecraft
17. “The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.” - Arthur Miller
18. “I write so the endangered thoughts roaming naked and vulnerable through the misty jungles of my mind aren't slain by the guns of practical living.” - Kim Krizan
19. “They could not write their names, but I can write mine, and I will again, somewhere where it will last for a long, long time. I will find Ky, and then I will find that place.” - Ally Condie
20. “Who am I? I'm just a writer. I write things down. I walk through your dreams and invent the future. Sure, I sink the boat of love, but that comes later. And yes, I swallow glass, but that comes later.” - Richard Siken
21. “Write like a motherfucker.” - Cheryl Strayed
22. “Stop writing what you know and start writing what you want to know.” - Tiffany Reisz
23. “Sit and quiet yourself. Luxuriate in a certain memory and the details will come. Let the images flow. You'll be amazed at what will come out on paper. I'm still learning what it is about the past that I want to write. I don't worry about it. It will emerge. It will insist on being told.” - Frank McCourt
24. “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 is 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
25. “My characters are quite as real to me as so-called real people; which is one reason why I'm not subject to what is known as loneliness. I have plenty of company.” - William S. Burroughs
26. “At the heart of the impulse to tell stories is a mystery so profound.” - Dennis Covington
27. “You should really stay true to your own style. When I first started writing, everybody said to me, 'Your style just isn't right because you don't use the really flowery language that romances have.' My romances - compared to what's out there - are very strange, very odd, very different. And I think that's one of the reasons they're selling.” - Jude Deveraux
28. “On plenty of days the writer can write three or four pages, and on plenty of other days he concludes he must throw them away.” - Annie Dillard
29. “What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.” - Ernest Hemingway
30. “We, and I think I'm speaking for many writers, don't know what it is that sometimes comes to make our books alive. All we can do is write dutifully and day after day, every day, giving our work the very best of what we are capable. I don't that we can consciously put the magic in; it doesn't work that way. When the magic comes, it's a gift.” - Madeleine L'Engle
31. “You can never know enough about your characters” - W. Somerset Maugham
32. “Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.” - Laurence Sterne
33. “A novelist's characters must be with him as he lies down to sleep, and as he wakes from his dreams. He must learn to hate them and to love them.” - Anthony Trollopel
34. “There is no doubt that I have lots of words inside me; but at moments, like rush-hour traffic at the mouth of a tunnel, they jam.” - John Updike
35. “I try to write a certain amount each day, five days a week. A rule sometimes broken is better than no rule.” - Herman Wouk
36. “Don't say you're a writer if you're not writing. Even if you're writing, don't call yourself a writer. Say instead, 'I write.' It's the verb that's important, not the noun.” - Patti Digh
37. “The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable.” - Steven Pressfield
