Browsing Topic Best Inspiring Writing Quotes

Ignore all hatred and criticism. Live for what you create, and die protecting it.

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

The only power that exists is inside ourselves.

Don’t pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.

Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.

I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.

Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.

Writers don’t retire. I will always be a writer.

Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

I try to leave out the parts readers skip.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other

You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

I write to be the characters that I am not.

Being a writer means taking the leap from listening to saying ‘Listen to me’.

Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.

I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I’m afraid of.

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.

The grandest seduction of all is the myth that DOING EVERYTHING BETTER gets us where we want to be. It gets us somewhere, certainly, but not anywhere worth being

The scariest moment is always just before you start.

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.

Read, read read. Read everything.

Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.

You fail only if you stop writing.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.