Writing is a skill or activity with the help of which a person can share his ideas, thoughts, and emotions using any text, symbol, or character. The skill of writing is to express oneself through written words. Here are some inspirational writing quotes that will help you if you are curious to know about writing.
Best motivational writing quotes
1. “Writing is a journey of discovery because until you start, you never know what will happen, and you can be surprised by what you do – expect the unexpected!” ― Mini Grey
2. “Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose… anything goes.” ― Cole Porter
3. “Writing the perfect paper is a lot like a military operation. It takes discipline, foresight, research, and strategy, and, if done right, ends in total victory.” ― Ryan Holiday
4. “When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.” ― Daphne du Maurier
5. “It’s not writing in the traditional sense, but I’ve always said that the writing process continues on the set and even into the editing room.” ― Robert B. Weide
6. “The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.” ― Arthur Miller
7. “Words have weight.” ― Stephen King
8. “Writing in a journal reminds you of your goals and of your learning in life. It offers a place where you can hold a deliberate, thoughtful conversation with yourself.” ― Robin S. Sharma
9. “Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.” ― Elie Wiesel
10. “The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading, in order to write: a man will turn over half a library to make one book.” ― Samuel Johnson
11. “Writing about music is like dancing about architecture – it’s really a stupid thing to want to do.” ― Elvis Costello
12. “Writing is both mask and unveiling.” ― E.B. White
Famous writing quotes
13. “Writing means sharing. It’s part of the human condition to want to share things – thoughts, ideas, opinions.” ― Paulo Coelho
14. “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.” ― Virginia Woolf
15. “Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.” ― Jules Renard
16. “When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest.” ― Stephen King
17. “Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.” ― Kurt Vonnegut
18. “Writing is like breathing, it’s possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.” ― Julia Cameron
19. “Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.” ― Toni Morrison
20. “A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it.” ― Roald Dahl
21. “Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.” ― Terry Pratchett
Inspiring writing quotes
22. “Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.” ― Louis L’Amour
23. “The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.” ― Anais Nin
24. “Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.” ― Howard Nemerov
25. “Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.” ― Meg Cabot
26. “Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases, that’s where it should stay.” ― Christopher Hitchens
27. “The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even printing.” ― Douglas Engelbart
28. “Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.” ― Brenda Ueland
29. “Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.” ― Tennessee Williams
30. “Writing is like talking to yourself, just in a way that makes it look like you’re not crazy!” ― Mary Kate
31. “Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.” ― Salman Rushdie
32. “A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.” ― Charles Péguy
33. “Poetry is, after all, only nonsense and justifies what would be considered impudence if written in prose.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Writing quotes for students
34. “The heart and soul of good writing is research; you should write not what you know but what you can find out about.” ― Robert J. Sawyer
35. “Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.” ― E. B. White
36. “All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.” ― Ernest Hemingway
37. “There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they’ll take you.” ― Beatrix Potter
38. “You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.” ― Jack London
39. “Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely essential.” ― Jessamyn West
40. “To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.” ― Aristotle
41. “Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.” ― Napoleon Hill
42. “The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you’re writing about. It doesn’t encumber you, it makes you free.” ― A. S. Byatt
43. “The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.” ― A. B. Yehoshua
44. “You learn to write by writing, and by reading and thinking about how writers have created their characters and invented their stories. If you are not a reader, don’t even think about being a writer.” ― Jean M. Auel
Creative writing quotes
45. “Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding it.” ― Lloyd Alexander
46. “Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college.” ― Kurt Vonnegut
47. “If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.” ― Martin Luther
48. “There is creative reading as well as creative writing.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
49. “To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the music the words make.” ― Truman Capote
50. “Without words, without writing, and without books, there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.” ― Hermann Hesse
51. “Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don’t forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth.” ― Paula Danziger
52. “Writing means not just staring ugliness in the face, but finding a way to embrace it.” ― Veronica Roth
53. “What is writing? Writing is telepathy.” ― Stephen King
54. “Creativity is the brain’s invisible muscle — that when used and exercised routinely — becomes better and stronger.” ― Ashley Ormon
55. “Content is nothing but showing your creativity through words.” ― Textuar
56. “All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation — it is the Self escaping into the open.” ― E.B. White
Short quotes about writing
57. “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” ― Maya Angelo
58. “Fiction is the truth inside the lie.” ― Stephen King
59. “Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.” ― E.L. Doctorow
60. “Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.” ― William Wordsworth
61. “A word after a word after a word is power.” ― Margaret Atwood
62. “Tears are words that need to be written.” ― Paulo Coelho
63. “You can make anything by writing.” ― C.S. Lewis
64. “The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.” ― Ernest Hemingway
65. “Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.” ― Mario Vargas-Llosa
66. “A good book isn’t written, it’s rewritten.” ― Phyllis A. Whitney
67. “Writing is the geometry of the soul.” ― Plato
68. “Good writing is like a windowpane.” ― George Orwell
69. “Write what you know.” ― Mark Twain
70. “The desire to write grows with writing.” ― Erasmus
71. “Writing is an antidote to loneliness.” ― Steven Berkoff
Writing quotes for writers
72. “If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.” ― Toni Morrison
73. “There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.” ― Frank Herbert
74. “There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.” ― W. Somerset Maugham
75. “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
76. “A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.” ― William Faulkner
77. “Whether you’re keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it’s the same thing. What’s important is that you’re having a relationship with your mind.” ― Natalie Goldberg
78. “There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.” ― W. Somerset Maugham
79. “Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.” ― A.A. Milne
80. “Writing is a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don’t want to make eye contact while doing it.” ― John Green
Love writing quotes
81. “Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11.” ― A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
82. “The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.” ― Gustave Flaubert
83. “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.” ― Joss Whedon
84. “If you do not breathe through writing if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.” ― Anais Nin
85. “I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.” ― James Michener
86. “When we are in love, we are convinced nobody else will do. But as time goes, others do, and often do, much much better.” ― Jamie Weise
87. “Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.” ― Khaled Hosseini
88. “I love being a writer. What I can’t stand is the paperwork.” ― Peter De Vries
89. “Writing is like making love. Don’t worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.” ― Isabel Allende
90. “When you’re writing what you love, it’s the most fun you can have with your clothes still on unless of course, you write naked.” ― Don Roff
Stephen King writing quotes
91. “If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.” ― Stephen King
92. “A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.” ― Stephen King
93. “Description begins in the writer’s imagination but should finish in the reader’s.” ― Stephen King
94. “A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.” ― Stephen King
95. “Books are a uniquely portable magic.” ― Stephen King
96. “If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.” ― Stephen King
97. “Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn’t carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.” ― Stephen King
98. “Fiction is the truth inside the lie.” ― Stephen King
99. “The road to hell is paved with adverbs.” ― Stephen King
100. “The scariest moment is always just before you start.” ― Stephen King
Passion for writing quotes
101. “The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.” ― Lee Iacocca
102. “A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.” ― Thomas Mann
103. “It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
104. “Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.” ― Gloria Steinem
105. “I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.” ― Toni Morrison
106. “The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
107. “The greatest writers have persistence.” ― Gina Nahai
108. “A good writer refuses to be socialized. He insists on his own version of things, his own consciousness. And by doing so he draws the reader’s eye from its usual groove into a new way of seeing things.” ― Bill Barich
109. “Writing is more than a gift. It is a struggle that blesses those who see it through to the end.” ― Nona King
110. “You will learn more about writing from one hour of reading than you will in six hours of writing.” ― John McAleer
Writing stories quotes
111. “Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.” ― Hermann Hesse
112. “Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.” ― Willa Cather
113. “A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.” ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón
114. “After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love, and I was sure this was a very good story although I would not know truly how good until I read it over the next day.” ― Ernest Hemingway
115. “The story is always better than your ability to write it.” ― Robin McKinley
116. “A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.” ― Diane Setterfield
117. “Every word a woman writes changes the story of the world, revises the official version.” ― Carolyn See
118. “Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all.” ― Shannon L. Alder
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