Quotes To Inspire You To Write
Some days you might sit down to write and the words just don’t flow. Or maybe you feel like you probably should be writing, but simply don’t feel motivated, so you’ve found twenty other things to do first. Or perhaps you haven’t written a creative sentence since high school, but have a story burning on the inside of you. Whatever state you’re in, I always find that quotes help me remember why I love what I do and inspire me to carry on, whether I’m feeling full of creativity or lacking any and every creative spark.
‘Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.‘
– Louis L’Amour
‘Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.‘
– William Wordsworth
‘The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love and great courage.‘
– Carson McCullers
‘You can make anything by writing.’
– C.S. Lewis
‘Writer’s block – when your imaginary friends stop talking to you.‘
– Unknown
‘I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.’
– Douglas Adams
‘The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.’
– T.S. Eliot
‘As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.’
– Aimee Bender
‘To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.’
– Joseph Chilton Pearce
‘To write is to be vulnerable.’
– Cole Ryan
‘Don’t forget – 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
‘There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they’ll take you.’
– Beatrix Potter
‘There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately , no one knows what they are.’
– William Somerset Maugham
‘Let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences.’
– Sylvia Plath
‘If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.’
– Wally Lamb
‘A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer; it sings because it has a song.’
– Maya Angelou
‘Words are our most inexhaustible source of magic.’
– J.K. Rowling
