Uplifting And Rousing Quotes to Strengthen Your Writing Life

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Uplifting And Rousing Quotes to Strengthen Your Writing Life

One of the best things about studying the routines, habits, and tricks of great writers is coming across what they have to say about the craft. It’s all the better because they usually find a way to reflect that’s as memorable and clever as the other writing they produced. 

So here are some of the world’s great writers on the difficulties, joys, frustrations, and thrill of writing:

1. Writing isn’t about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it’s about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well. It’s about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy. ~  Stephen King
2. I just sit at my typewriter and curse a bit. ~ P.G. Wodehouse
3. The best time for planning a book is while you’re doing the dishes. ~ Agatha Christie
4. I don't need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me. ~ Ray Bradbury
5. There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you. ~ Beatrix Potter
6. You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write. ~ Annie Proulx
7. Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. ~  James Joyce
8. Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself. ~ Truman Capote
9. There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. ~ Maya Angelou
10. Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way. ~ Ray Bradbury
11. You can fix anything but a blank page. ~ Nora Roberts
12. Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn’t matter. I’m not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn’t make us better, then what on earth is it for. ~ Alice Walker
13. Put down everything that comes into your head and then you’re a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff’s worth, without pity, and destroy most of it. ~ Colette
14. You know, it’s hard work to write a book. I can’t tell you how many times I really get going on an idea, then my quill breaks. Or I spill ink all over my writing tunic. ~ Ellen DeGeneres
15. Easy reading is damn hard writing. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
16. Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. ~ George Orwell
17. Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money. ~ Virginia Woolf
18. I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide. ~ Harper Lee
19. I tell my students there is such a thing as ‘writer’s block,’ and they should respect it. You shouldn’t write through it. It’s blocked because it ought to be blocked, because you haven’t got it right now. ~  Toni Morrison
20. Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. ~ Anton Chekhov