Writer Encouragement Quotes

#1. Heaven no longer exists, nor does the earth.

Kohta Hirano

#2. Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one should ever feel like attempting a kind of artistic endeavor is beyond your scope just because of age or inexperience.

Tea Obreht

#3. This sort of encouragement is vital for any writer. And lastly the publication of Touching the Flame, which was on hold for two years and went through a few publishers before finding a stable home.

Paul Kane

#4. I know nothing of writing books properly. I write in the same manner I live life: one feeling at a time. If this makes me a bad writer, then I might hope to author several bad books.

Cara Rosalie Olsen

#5. When you're that tall, people talk about it all the time.

Kristen Johnston

#6. To anyone who knows a writer, never underestimate the power of your encouragement.

Matthew Reilly

#7. What we need to do is to eliminate the negative and accentuate the positive. In doing this, we gradually acquire the habit of affirmative thinking.

Ernest Holmes

#8. Never let the brain idle. 'An idle mind is the devil's workshop.' And the devil's name is Alzheimer's.

George Carlin

#9. Because sometimes love just needs a witness ... Somebody to testify. Sometimes love just needed somebody to step forward and say, Here I am, Spirit. Send me.

Pearl Cleage

#10. Resiliency is the key to love.

Ronald Rolheiser

#11. I still can't believe I danced with Gene Kelly. How lucky am I that I've been in movies where I've danced with two of the greatest dancers of all time - with Gene Kelly and John Travolta.

Olivia Newton-John

#12. Exercise, from a public health perspective, is an unmitigated failure. The world's longest-lived people live in environments that nudge them into more movement. They don't use power tools, they do their own yard work, they grow a garden.

Dan Buettner

#13. Honorary degrees and lifetime achievement awards are very encouraging. I know that it might sound strange that a writer who has published many books still needs encouragement, but this is true.

Joyce Carol Oates

#14. Glory is a poison, good to be taken in small doses.

Honore De Balzac

#15. God uses no one until He first puts them through the storm. The greater your mission, the greater your storm.

John Hagee

#16. Look back, but never look down.

Fennel Hudson

#17. I'm not ashamed; I work hard to look how I do.

Pooch Hall

#18. Publish a book before you're too old to read it without glasses.

Fennel Hudson

#19. Amazing, I thought nobody could tell that man what to do.
-Foalan to Bridei
Talking about Broichan

Juliet Marillier

#20. I was sad, but I told them: "I am tired.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#21. I never read one hateful thing said about me by some 12 year old. So I got to live an actual life. And I've kept that mentality. Just because there's a hurricane going on around you doesn't mean you have to open the window and look at it.

Taylor Swift

#22. Writing does not exist unless there is someone to read it, and each reader will take something different from a novel, from a chapter, from a line.

Claire Fuller