We’re hoping these quotes will help remind you that you’re not alone as a writer and maybe teach you a few things, too. Some of the quotes are inspirational, others humorous. A few are even profound. Enjoy!
- “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typwriter and bleed.” –Ernest Hemingway
- “A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.” –Maya Angelou
- “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.” –Madeleine L’Engle
- “If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.” –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
- “If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.” –Toni Morrison
- “Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding it.” –Lloyd Alexander
- “No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.” –Robert Frost
- “If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.” –Isaac Asimov
- “Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it’s always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.” –Neil Gaiman
- “Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.” –John Steinbeck
- “Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.” –F. Scott Fitzgerald
- “You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.” –Jack London
- “All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.” –E.B. White
- “The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.” –Thomas Jefferson
- “Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow.” –Margaret Atwood
- “Grand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.” –J.D. Salinger
- “You can fix anything but a blank page.” –Nora Roberts
- “When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.” –Kurt Vonnegut
- “I never exactly made a book. It’s rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say. ” –C.S. Lewis
