There comes a time when even the most talented writer needs words of guidance. Looking for help some consult the words of others. These quotes are categorized to help find exactly what will inspire.
Words of Advice
"You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you." -- Ray Bradbury
"And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The wost enemy to creativity is self-doubt." -- Sylvia Plath
"If there is a book that you really want to read, and it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it." -- Toni Morrison
"Can I be blunt on the subject? If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time - or the tools - to write. Simple as that." -- Stephen King
"Moving around is good for creativity: the next line of dialogue that you desperately need may well be waiting in the back of the refrigerator or half a mile along your favorite walk." -- Will Shetterly
"Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart." William Wordsworth
"Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me of the glint of light on broken glass." -- Anton Chekhov
Words to Motivate
"The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say." -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Forget all the rules. Forget about publishing. Write for yourself and celebrate writing." -- Melinda Haynes
"There is more pleasure to building castles in the air than on the ground." -- Edward Gibbon
"I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like a child stringing beads in kindergarten - happily, absorbed, and quietly putting one bead on after another." -- Brenda Ueland
"There are many reasons why novelists write - but they all have one thing in common: a need to create an alternate world." -- John Fowles
"It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. that is where the writer scores over his fellows; he catches the changes of his mind on the hop." -- Vita Sackville-West
To Write For Money
"Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent." -- Neil Gaiman
"It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by the time I was to famous." -- Robert Benchley
"Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money." -- Jules Renard
"Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man wanted to make a million dollars the best way would be to start his own religion." -- L. Ron Hubbard
"Most writers can write books faster than publishers can write checks." -- Richard Curtis
Final Thoughts on Writing
"An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate." -- Chateaubriand
"An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere." -- Gustave Flaubert
"Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most vaulable." -- Francis Bacon
"Easy reading is damn hard writing." -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Erin Yowell - I have always had a passion for writing and decided that a career in journalism would be the best fit. Obtaining a BA in Communication ...
