Writing Inspiration Quotes

“One does not travel, any more than one falls in love, to collect material. It is simply part of one's life...”
― Evelyn Waugh

“Writing heals my heart like no pill ever could.”
― Rob Bignell, Writing Affirmations: A Collection of Positive Messages to Inspire Writers

“When I told my teachers I wanted to be a writer, alot of them encouraged me to lower my expectations and to be more realistic. So I rode away on my magical, winged horse, spraying faerie dust behind me, and laughing manically as I went.”
― M.E. Vaughan

“Writing is exposing yourself to strangers”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“I know, not everyone will like what I write, but writing is not about trying to please everybody.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri

“Don't just write a strong female protagonist. Be one.”
― A.D. Posey

“Every story began with the same claim: "If you hear the first part, you'll want to hear the second. If you hear the story today, you'll come back tomorrow for another. If you hear the story tonight, you'll think about it as you sleep.”
― Donna Jo Napoli, Bound

“...you are a writer the moment you start writing, not when you've sold your first book.”
― Rob Bignell, Writing Affirmations: A Collection of Positive Messages to Inspire Writers

“Each time I write, I reaffirm my soul.”
― Rob Bignell, Writing Affirmations: A Collection of Positive Messages to Inspire Writers

“Replace your old books with the book you've always wanted to write.”
― Rob Bignell, Writing Affirmations: A Collection of Positive Messages to Inspire Writers

“Passionate attraction to someone of the opposite sex will make a hero or a fool of a novelist each time.”
― Roman Payne, The Love of Europa: Limited Time Edition

“Writing is lonely. Until that moment you write your first character and suddenly you have company.”
― Eliza Green

“One day I will write a book. An epitaph”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“Dementia isn’t the only place that memories are found to be flawed—people find out they can’t rely on their memories every day. People blindsided in relationships. People who find out their truth is a lie. People pulled from trauma. People awakened, as in Anna and Eve. I wondered: If you can’t use memories to steer your life, what can you use? I didn’t know. It was why I had to write this book.”
― Sally Hepworth

“True authors don't write for fame or to make a name or money, they write to make impact”
― Bernard Kelvin Clive

“Writers don't forget the past; they turn it into raw material.”
― Joyce Rachelle

“..here's the editor's prescription, writer: 1000 words daily until next checkup.”
― Rob Bignell, Writing Affirmations: A Collection of Positive Messages to Inspire Writers

“The books we read in childhood don't exist anymore; they sailed off with the wind, leaving bare skeletons behind. Whoever still has in him the memory and marrow of childhood should rewrite these books as he experienced them.”
― Bruno Schulz

“Writing is a competition between the writer and the page. When the page wins, you fail as a writer.”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“Writers get ideas all day every day. The FedEx guy delivers a package from Sears and the writer is thinking how it could actually be a ticking time bomb.”
― Dan Alatorre

“Writing comes from deep within, seeping out of the soul onto the white of paper. It carries with it the lifeblood of the artist, exposing their secrets to the world.”
― Amber E. Box

“I am sorry, I am not a writer. I simply put my thoughts on paper. Those helped by them call them a book and me a writer. Those who are not helped call it rubbish and me a fool. Both have reason.”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“A love of writing is far greater than any word count.”
― Molly Looby

“Dream, Write, Create , And Get Lost With The Words In Your Head”
― JaNae McKay

“Words writers choose are a glimmering reflection into our souls.”
― Lee Bice-Matheson-Matheson

“We are inspired by divine power to write.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Basically, writers write because they have something to say...Everyone has a story in them, writers merely decide to share it with the world...”
― Virginia Alison

“Every book has its ancestors”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“You hold in your heart everything you need to know to write anything your story needs written.”
― Dan Alatorre

“Write the best thing you can, whatever it is. It is deeply moving to read a letter from Spain or somewhere that says they read my book and fell in love with my daughter. Or that a book I wrote changed their life. It is amazing to be on the receiving end of that. Don't deny yourself that.”
― Dan Alatorre