Keep Writing Quotes

#1. I have learned one lesson as a writer ... keep writing and never throw any notes away. Written parts that can't be used today ... may be used for other books tomorrow.

Timothy Pina

#2. To find the courage to keep writing after constant failure is awesomeness. Winning is eminent.

Sereda Aleta Dailey

#3. Shame can kill the imagination. It's hard to keep writing in the face of cultural derision.

Eloisa James

#4. I will always be an actress. I couldn't see myself without acting. But I'd love to direct and keep writing. I don't think one has to be in place of the other.

Kate Del Castillo

#5. I use writing as a counselling session - recently I've written a song for Paloma Faith, so after being a singer, I'm happy to keep writing for other people.

Ella Eyre

#6. Well, I just wanted to be a person. I just wanted them to keep writing me as humanistic as possible.

Fisher Stevens

#7. We'll keep writing and if it hits our standards we'll go with it. We're not here to destroy anything. It's as precious to us as it is for someone who's followed us for years.

Ian Brown

#8. We will read books together inside the blanket and stay warm. And keep writing poetry in our respective journals. Time will fly but we will still remain inside the blanket forever.

Avijeet Das

#9. Strangely, I always have a lot of cut scenes. I keep writing shorter and shorter scripts, thinking that this time, I'll get all my scenes in.

David Twohy

#10. So, the combination of looking at lots of different people and how they react to each other and how they relate to each other and waiting for that inspiration is the thing that allows me to keep writing.

Joan Armatrading

#11. It's okay to be crazy as long as you keep writing and are happy.

Lori Lesko

#12. I feel like you just need to keep writing until the writing itself just begins to take shape.

Ed Westwick

#13. Every writer prefers good reviews over bad ones, and every writer wants to have lots of readers. But if it doesn't happen, that's fine too. Perhaps I won't throw a party then; I'll simply go home and keep writing.

J.K. Rowling

#14. Just write, get better, keep writing, keep getting better. It's the only thing you can control.

Roger Ebert

#15. Writers don't sleep. Writers keep writing in their heads while they're dreaming.

Ksenia Anske

#16. I don't believe in "writers block." Lower your standards and keep writing. You can always go back later and make it better. Unless your name is Harlan Ellison, in which case your sentences come out perfectly parsed each time.

Marvin J. Wolf

#17. I keep writing and rewriting, drawing and redrawing, and rethinking and revising and reediting. It became my grieving ceremony.

Sherman Alexie

#18. I can't help but notice that you keep writing love poetry to my wife. Well, you see, I married her, which makes her my wife. You know what you might want to try? Writing some poems about the sunset. The sunset isn't fucking married.

A. J. Jacobs

#19. When you're a songwriter and you click with someone, you tend to want to keep writing with that person.

Billy Sherwood

#20. Keep writing for writing is sustenance for the soul.

Christopher Broom

#21. It's like all I can do is keep writing this gibberish to keep from falling apart.

Stephen Chbosky

#22. Rather than thinking in terms of a specific genre or specific kind of thing, I hope I can just stay relatively small and keep making my movies. If I can keep writing them and making them, I'll be happy.

Rian Johnson

#23. Writing is a gift. To be good at your gift you need to keep writing.

Lisa Powell

#24. She can't keep writing about what a tragic little hero I am, it'll get boring.

J.K. Rowling

#25. Maybe authors shouldn't write more than one or two books. Maybe you just keep writing the same book over and over anyway.

Adam Langer

#26. The only advice anybody can give is, if you wanna be a writer, keep writing. And read all you can, read everything.

Stan Lee

#27. Keep Writing, Keep Living, Keep Loving

Frank Ocean

#28. There's this element of surprise when you're writing songs, like it's something outside of you that you get to be part of. And it's just exciting. And that's why I keep writing - because I like that feeling.

Nathaniel Rateliff

#29. And the writers keep writing and the artists keep painting but it doesn't mean too much.

Charles Bukowski

#30. Don't listen to people who tell you that very few people get published and you won't be one of them. Don't listen to your friend who says you are better that Tolkien and don't have to try any more. Keep writing, keep faith in the idea that you have unique stories to tell, and tell them.

Robin Hobb

#31. Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home.

Philip Levine

#32. I think I know what my bandmates like or are interested in or would be interested in doing. I take ideas and I develop them, get rid of some ideas, keep writing, and then new things come up.

John Dieterich

#33. Even if I never sold another book, I'd keep writing, because the stories are here, in my head. Stories that just need to be told. I love watching a plot unfold, and feeling the surprise when the unexpected happens.

Tess Gerritsen

#34. We want to fight."
"And I want J.K. Rowling to keep writing in the Potterverse, but I know that's never going to happen," I said blithely.

Laura Kreitzer

#35. Not everyone will like what you write but there's a certain group who'll love what you write. Keep WRITING for them.

David Chuka

#36. As long as one person reads the bullshit I put on paper, and likes it, i'll keep writing.

Benjamin Bayani

#37. Keep writing. Keep doing it and doing it. Even in the moments when it's so hurtful to think about writing.

Heather Armstrong

#38. There are all these things I want to do when I don't have to finish a book. But I have to keep writing because I keep having children.

Robert K. Massie

#39. Authors ... keep writing those great books for children and teens. It's a proven fact that those children & teens who read are less depressed than those who don't.

Timothy Pina

#40. 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

#41. 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 to strangle me in my sleep?

Ryunosuke Akutagawa

#42. Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing. They are the ones who discover what is most important and strangest and most pleasurable in themselves, and keep believing in the value of their work, despite the difficulties.

Bonnie Friedman

#43. Because remember, that's what writers do: they write, and they keep writing. Then they write some more. Even when the terrain is tough and the words seem elusive, they don't stop. They don't turn around. They don't give up.

Erica Crouch

#44. sometimes the very best thing to do, I find, is to turn off the news and keep writing our own stories and lullabies.

Shauna Niequist

#45. I don't have any desire to retire in the sense of not doing anything. As long as the Lord gives me strength I want to keep writing and keep preaching.

Max Lucado

#46. If I can keep writing just one good page a day, I will have 15 published novels in my expected lifetime. Tick, tick, tick...

Barry James Hickey

#47. I keep going;I keep writing because I know something good will happen, and I want to see it when it happens.

Millicent Ashby

#48. Sometimes when I'm stuck, I really do need that cup of tea, or that chocolate, or a break, or a walk, but in most cases what I actually need to do is make myself keep writing until it flows again.

Liane Moriarty

#49. To unlock the writer's block is to keep writing until you can unknot the "not". If you cannot, then put a can in the plot and unwrap it a lot!

Ana Claudia Antunes

#50. In the face of entropy and nothingness, you kind of have to pretend it's not
there if you want to keep writing good code.

Karl Lehenbauer

#51. I'd say, don't listen to what anyone says: you're good. Go put your anorak on. Get your thick bottle-top specs. Draw your little cartoons and your comics and keep writing to the BBC.

Peter Capaldi

#52. Keep writing. The only failure is in not trying at all.

Erzabet Bishop

#53. You find your preferred resolutions and harmonic intervals and what-have-yous, and then you either keep writing the same thing until everybody is as bored with your songs as you are, or you try with all your might to get out of those patterns. This is what a lot of the work is all about.

Bent Saether

#54. Whereas I, even now, persist in believing that these black marks on white paper bear the greatest significance, that if I keep writing I might be able to catch the rainbow of consciousness in a jar.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#55. It's amazing what I could've written in my life if I had realized that I should keep writing and not masturbating.

Lewis Black

#56. Don't let others discourage you from writing. Your peers will never see your point of view and they don't have to its your story, your journey; but keep writing and become good enough so that they will notice you as the very thing they tried to steer you from. Being a writer.

K.T. Hunter

#57. After I won the Pulitzer, there was this sense of, 'OK, that's enough for you. Now go away.' What I wanted was to keep writing, keep working. But no one would produce anything of mine they didn't think would be as big as 'night, Mother.'

Marsha Norman

#58. The only real advice you can give anyone is to keep writing.

David Sedaris

#59. Collections aren't really planned. I just keep writing short pieces until I have enough for a collection.

Lydia Davis

#60. Keep writing, because you won't know who you really are until you see it staring back at you from the page.

Ksenia Anske

#61. The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images.

Galen Rowell

#62. 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

#63. So, tell me what my fists keep writing, my fingers, they open up like gates when I write ...

Anis Mojgani

#64. 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

#65. Just Keep Writing! Who cares if it's a Saturday, or if you left your laptop at home, or if you're around people? Just write one word, one line, jot down one idea. No matter how little you write, it's movement in the right direction. Forward. Toward completion.

Tammy Ferebee

#66. Keep writing. It doesn't have to be anything fancy. Put some words on paper. You never know what will happen.

L.T. Brooks

#67. If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.

Dana Brunetti

#68. The M.F.A. is a degree in servitude. It is a way to keep writing safe - to keep reading safe from writing.

Joshua Cohen

#69. The biggest sacrifice to me is to not be in an atmosphere where I can keep writing and moving forward.

Trey Anastasio

#70. 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. Keep the faith. Be true blue. You are a writer because you write. Keep writing and quit your bitching. Your book has a birthday. You don't know what it is yet.

Cheryl Strayed

#71. Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope to, some day, find something to say.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#72. So, it's a continual process of trial and error and then I find things and I throw it out and start again, but I keep writing it over again.

Edward Hirsch

#73. If I make you read, then I'll keep quiet. If I make you think, then I'll keep reading. If I make you smile, then I'll keep writing.

Thomas Lopinski

#74. I
Keep writing.
Not because I want to.
It's a respiratory illness.

Jonathan Heatt

#75. 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 author and a non-published one is that the published author never stopped writing.

Julie Kagawa

#76. 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 more important than spending three weeks getting page four perfect.

Alan Dean Foster

#77. If you want to be a writer, you have to keep writing, all the time, and when you're not writing, be thinking about and planning writing.

May J. Panayi

#78. I still have no way to survive but to keep writing one line, one more line, one more line ...

Yukio Mishima

#79. 10 Steps to Becoming a Better Writer
Write.
Write more.
Write even more.
Write even more than that.
Write when you don't want to.
Write when you do.
Write when you have something to say.
Write when you don't.
Write every day.
Keep writing.

Brian Clark

#80. I don't have any structured grand plan; I just intend to keep writing about the things that interest me-some of which change, some of which don't.

Greg Egan

#81. I just want to keep writing characters who are interesting and complicated people and interesting roles for women, in TV or film or in theater. I think that's like my 'Blues Brothers' mission.

Elizabeth Meriwether

#82. Because there's just so much in a day now, I keep writing in much more abstract terms, like I don't try to write about what happened anymore. It would be impossible.

Feist

#83. So research is a terribly imperfect science, and you learn an awful lot more after you've published a book, because people keep writing to you and saying, 'Oh, gosh, I was related to such and such a character and I have a letter in my possession.'

Simon Winchester

#84. It's easy to get discouraged; just keep writing because you love to do it, and you'll keep improving.

Suzanne Weyn

#85. I keep writing because it is deeply pleasurable to me.

Cathy Marie Buchanan

#86. 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, they'll keep writing and you'll have hanged yourself.

John Gardner

#87. Every morning when I awake I ask myself whether I should write or blow up a dam. I tell myself I should keep writing, though I'm not sure that's right

Derrick Jensen

#88. Write and keep writing, not because people will like it, but because someone may get a kick out of thrashing your book.

Magus Tor

#89. If I had to give up everything else and keep just one aspect of the job, I'd have to keep writing because I love it. Yes, I enjoy performing, too. But I couldn't give up writing material.

Colin Quinn

#90. 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 keep feeding it your energy, and giving it that crucial chance to work itself out. By reading and writing.

Robin McKinley

#91. I intend to keep writing Christmas songs. There's still a lot more about Christmas that can be captured and feel like old-time Christmas. A lot of the traditions haven't been explained in song.

Clint Black

#92. I don't write for an audience. I write for myself. And if I imagine an audience at all, it's the characters, but I know that I would keep writing even if no one ever published me again, even if no one ever read me again.

Ursula Hegi

#93. I do not remember where I read that there are two kinds of poets: the good poets, who at a certain point destroy their bad poems and go off to run guns in Africa, and the bad poets, who publish theirs and keep writing more until they die.

Umberto Eco

#94. I'll keep writing 'Dune' books as long as my mother's spirit continues to support the project.

Brian Herbert

#95. I'm happy to work until I'm 70 if I'm able to. Actually, I'm happy to keep writing as long as people keep buying my books.

Nick Earls

#96. I write what I want to write. Period. I don't write novels-for-hire using media tie-in characters, I don't write suspense novels or thrillers. I write horror. And if no one wants to buy my books, I'll just keep writing them until they do sell
and get a job at Taco Bell in the meantime.

Bentley Little

#97. Yes, there are countless authors out there, but none of them are you. You need to keep writing.

Kira Hawke

#98. You have to keep writing. It's almost like practice, almost like tennis, that actually after a few days of not writing, first of all it makes you slightly depressed and uneasy, but it also affects the style when you start up again. You need to get the show on the road.

Colm Toibin

#99. Until then I'll keep writing things down, both the things I make up and the things that have happened. It is the way I've learned to see my life.

Ann Patchett

#100. I feel a passion for what we're trying to do.I mean, why does somebody who's old who's a writer keep writing? Because that's who they are.

Charles Koch