Keep Writing Quotes

147 quotes by 62 authors

Whatever's happening today, remember it is only ONE SCENE in a long movie. Don't treat it like it's the whole story. Keep writing the story. — Henry Cloud
Do not beat up on yourself. Do not criticize your writing as lousy, inadequate, stupid, or any of the evil epithets that you are used… — Gail Carson Levine
Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap. Getting from page four to page five is… — Alan Dean Foster
My name became a brand, and I'd love to say that was the plan from the start. But the only plan was to keep writing… — John Grisham
I hope to keep writing journalism as long as I write fiction; it's afforded me such amazing adventures and opportunities. It does take a lot… — Jennifer Egan
People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly, if I wanted to, I could keep writing… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
People will tell you that writing is too difficult, that it's impossible to get your work published, that you might as well hang yourself. Meanwhile,… — John Gardner
But maybe the Charm Bracelets understood more about life than I did. From an early age they knew what little value the world placed in… — Jeffrey Eugenides
She can't keep writing about what a tragic little hero I am, it'll get boring. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
i still have no way to survive but to keep writing one line, one more line, one more line... — Yukio Mishima
In my view, a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise,… — Junot Diaz
I don't know what's wrong with me. It's like all I can do is keep writing this gibberish to keep from breaking apart. — Stephen Chbosky
I don't have the strength to keep writing this. To go on living with this feeling is painful beyond description. Isn't there someone kind enough… — RyÅ«nosuke Akutagawa
Don't lament so much about how your career is going to turn out. You don't have a career. You have a life. Do the work.… — Cheryl Strayed
You learn by writing short stories. Keep writing short stories. The money's in novels, but writing short stories keeps your writing lean and pointed. — Larry Niven
For anyone who is: just keep writing. Keep reading. If you are meant to be a writer, a storyteller, it'll work itself out. You just… — Robin McKinley
The most important advice I can offer is that writing is a craft that you can learn by practicing. If you keep writing, you will… — Lauren Tarshis
I keep writing because it is deeply pleasurable to me. — Cathy Marie Buchanan
Just keep writing, and try to finish that novel. Remember, all authors started exactly where you are right now; the only difference between a published… — Julie Kagawa
Well, I just wanted to be a person. I just wanted them to keep writing me as humanistic as possible. — Fisher Stevens

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