Inspiring Writing Quotes

26 quotes by 24 authors

• The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels. — Simone de Beauvoir
• Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon. — Maya Angelou
• I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering. — Robert Frost
• I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of… — Ernest Hemingway
• When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. — Ernest Hemingway
• Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire. — Napoleon Hill
• 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… — Samuel Johnson
• Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader. — Joseph Joubert
• I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
• Writers don't retire. I will always be a writer. — Andy Rooney
• Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone. — Susan Sontag
• The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even… — John Steinbeck
• Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches. — Andy Warhol
• The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to… — William Faulkner
• I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. — Samuel Johnson
• If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you into conformity with… — Jack Kerouac
• If you show someone something you've written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, ‘When you’re ready’. — David Mitchell
• You can't outwit fate by standing on the sidelines placing little sidebets about the outcome of life. either you wade in and risk everything you… — Judith McNaught
• You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect… — Richard P. Feynman
• Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause… — J.R.R. Tolkien

Who Wrote These Inspiring Writing Quotes

24 authors contributed a total of 26 Inspiring Writing Quotes as follows:

• 2 Inspiring Writing Quotes by Ernest Hemingway
• 2 Inspiring Writing Quotes by Samuel Johnson
• 1 Inspiring Writing Quote by Maya Angelou
• 1 Inspiring Writing Quote by Robert Frost
• 1 Inspiring Writing Quote by Napoleon Hill
• 1 Inspiring Writing Quote by Joseph Joubert
• 1 Inspiring Writing Quote by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
• 1 Inspiring Writing Quote by Andy Rooney
• 1 Inspiring Writing Quote by Susan Sontag
• 1 Inspiring Writing Quote by John Steinbeck
• 1 Inspiring Writing Quote by Andy Warhol
• 1 Inspiring Writing Quote by William Faulkner
• 1 Inspiring Writing Quote by Jack Kerouac
• 1 Inspiring Writing Quote by David Mitchell
• 1 Inspiring Writing Quote by Judith McNaught
• 1 Inspiring Writing Quote by Richard P. Feynman
• 1 Inspiring Writing Quote by J.R.R. Tolkien
• 1 Inspiring Writing Quote by Dr. Seuss
• 1 Inspiring Writing Quote by Anne Rice
• 1 Inspiring Writing Quote by Deepak Chopra
• 1 Inspiring Writing Quote by Peter V. Brett
• 1 Inspiring Writing Quote by Lady Gaga
• 1 Inspiring Writing Quote by Bart D. Ehrman
• 1 Inspiring Writing Quote by Simone de Beauvoir