Inspiring writing Quotes

The only power that exists is inside ourselves.

— Anne Rice

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

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Lady Gaga

To acquire true self power you have to feel beneath no one, be immune to criticism and be fearless.

— Deepak Chopra

The thing with Superman is that he's completely emotionally open to the reader. Meaning what he tells you is what he's feeling;…

— Scott Snyder

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

— Jhumpa Lahiri

Read, read read. Read everything.

— William Faulkner

If you show someone something you've written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, ‘When you’re…

— David Mitchell

“The grandest seduction of all is the myth that DOING EVERYTHING BETTER gets us where we want to be. It gets us…

— Shauna Niequist

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

— Andy Rooney

Let others determine your worth and you're already lost, because no one wants people worth more than themselves.

— Peter V. Brett

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

— Dr. Seuss

If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you…

— Jack Kerouac

You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be…

— Richard P. Feynman

You can't outwit fate by standing on the sidelines placing little sidebets about the outcome of life. either you wade in and…

— Judith McNaught

I write to be the characters that I am not.

— Joss Whedon

[P]eople need to use their intelligence to evaluate what they find to be true and untrue in the Bible. This is how…

— Bart D. Ehrman