Top 100 Writer Inspirational Quotes
#2. Stories allow the writer and the reader to live in the same world
Irene Fantopoulos
#3. A writer needs to write and a reader wants to read so this creates a symbiotic relationship, at least most of the time.
Terrance Zepke
#4. If I could do it all again, I would start three hundred years ago, and write twice as fast.
Peter James West
#5. I believe in magic. As a writer, I create them on blank paper.
Sonnia Kemmer
#6. when in the face of writer's block, find another way to counter attack".
Shaheer Henderson
#7. A writer's breakthrough is a breakdown with a smile.
A.D. Posey
#9. The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies on the same turd.
Charles Bukowski
#10. Even on the silent days, believe your ship will come.
Shana Chartier
#11. You are a dancer in this great stage we call life. Your imagination is the writer and thoughts are the director of the dance drama. So unleash your thoughts to dramatize your dance.
Debasish Mridha
#13. The good days are when you perform; the slow days are when you learn to perform better. The only bad days as a writer are the ones when you are too cowardly or too lazy to sit down at the keyboard and give it everything you have.
Chris Cleave
#14. I'm a writer. Life is supposed to pass me by, while I watch it.
Nick Hornby
#15. Writer's block is as a depression in the earth. Like a river that flows into this depression for a time of rest and tranquility, eventually filling to continue its journey from the lower end of its shore line, so too shall your creative juices flow again.
Everett R. Lake
#17. The writer has no responsibility other than to jack off in bed alone and write a good page.
Charles Bukowski
#18. I have the heart of an artist and the soul of a writer.
A.D. Posey
#19. A writer writes. There are no exceptions to this reality. No excuses. Stop wasting time talking about your stories and get them on paper.
Christy Hall
#20. I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer.
Philip Pullman
#21. Once you are at the point where you can call yourself a writer, there's no turning back.
A.D. Posey
#23. If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.
Joyce Carol Oates
#24. Improvisation is the essence of good talk. Heaven defend us from the talker who doles out things prepared for us; but let heaven not less defend us from the beautiful spontaneous writer who puts his trust in the inspiration of the moment.
Max Beerbohm
#25. The writer's life is frightful. I have experienced deep dispair, mental ill and attempt of suicide.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#26. Keep writing and let the world roll on by.
Take the madness of reality and shape it into something worth sharing.
Peter James West
#27. A real and admirable writer is the one who can write good books but can take criticisms better.
Nicholaa Spencer
#28. A writer is simply one who writes words, Even if just 1 person reads it your work, or a 100, or 1million or 100,000 You are a writer.
Uma Nnenna
#29. I dont write books so that you can be fascinated with me. I write them so you can be fascinated with YOU!
Steve Maraboli
#30. The conflict each day is whether to immerse in books or writing. I can't do one without the other, but I can't do both at the same time. It is the writer's paradox.
Patricia Hickman
#31. Truth is the first thing that present-day literature lacks. The writer has drowned himself in lies, he is too accustomed to speak prudently, with a careful look over his shoulder.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#32. If I would have known I was going to leave my job that day to become a writer, I probably would have planned differently... It didn't come by way of illness per se, accident, or dismissal, but by way of sheer self-mutiny. The self I was born to be, decided to hijack the one I had created.
Dawn Kohler
#33. Writers get to construct a magical world that readers can visit in thought and extend their stay with imagination.
Sandra Alex
#34. Only a writer holds conversations between people that don't exist. We don't talk to ourselves. We talk to people we created from nothing.
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#35. If you want to be a writer, write a little bit every day. Pay attention to the world around you. Stories are hiding, waiting everywhere. You just have to open your eyes and your heart.
Kate DiCamillo
#36. Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton.
Don Roff
#37. To tell a love story true, a romance writer must bare hearts, souls and bodies.
Chris Lange
#38. I would probably work with Drake as he is massively inspirational to me as a writer as well as an artist. If not him, then Susan Boyle!
Conor Maynard
#39. Having an attack of self-doubt about your writing ability?
Step #1 - Tell yourself - 'I'm the best damn writer there is, and the world deserves to hear my voice.'
Step #2 - Repeat Step #1 until you believe it.
Jonathan Maas
#40. I think every writer has a little freak in 'em.
A.D. Posey
#41. Words to a writer is like notes to a musician, both know when they are off key.
June Davidson
#42. I will always love being a writer. There is nothing greater than that.
Millicent Ashby
#43. Wrestle with your thoughts until you get them on the page. Nobody can read them until you've written them down.
Peter James West
#44. Everyone writes with hand, but very few can write with heart
Munia Khan
#45. A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.
William Faulkner
#46. When you are writing a novel, you as the author will wear many hats. You are the writer, reader, and most importantly you are the character. If you can do those things your book will become reality to readers.
LaQuita Cameron
#47. A writer can never know ultimate success, for his true success comes through still being read centuries after his death.
Anthony North
#48. If I can't be remembered as one of the greatest authors, why not be remembered as the sexiest writer...
Hans Lindor
#50. When we remove the snowdrift piled up over Chekhov in recent years, we uncover a man profoundly agitated by social problems; a writer whose social ideals are the same as those we live by; a philosophy of the divinity of man, of fervent faith in man - the faith that moves mountains.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#51. Writer's block' is just a fancy way of saying 'I don't feel like doing any work today.
Meagan Spooner
#52. If you wait for inspiration to write you're not a writer, you're a waiter.
Dan Poynter
#53. You are not the writer. You are the story being told from The Writer.
Richard Wisniewski
#54. I'm just a girl, with a pen and a dream
Nikki Rowe
#55. Originality is little more
than the fine blending of influences.
Teju Cole
#57. If I could split myself into five people, I would still be behind on my writing schedule. I see now why James Patterson cloned himself so many times.
Peter James West
#58. It's wonderful to know that the power to define who I am rests solely with me. If I decide I am an artist, or a poet, a teacher or a writer then I AM.
Renae A. Sauter
#59. If you are a real writer, then just surrender to the writer's life, all of it, even the bad stuff. When you do that, the beauty appears: the peace, the meaning, the joy, the fulfillment, the sense that you are doing what you were born to do and what could be better, in the end, than that?
Lauren B. Davis
#60. When a writer is able to experience the whole range of human emotions, from deep depressions to glorious highs, it creates a whole inventory of feelings and musings from which they can choose and infuse into their words and characters.
David Perry
#61. A writer should not review a book. A reviewer should not write.
Bhaskar Sharma
#62. Whenever any of these new writers come up who are brilliant, I always realize that you have more talent and more skill than any of them;---but circumstances have prevented you from realizing upon the fact for a long time. [About F. Scott Fitzgerald]
Maxwell Perkins
#63. Everybody is born with a little bit of writer in them. We all come with the desire to work hard to see our creations come to life on the page. But it is those who choose to do something about this passion that has been ignited inside of them that are true writers.
Brian A. McBride
#64. Life is not only about acquiring knowledge, it is about applying knowledge.
Amit Kalantri
#65. I know writers have to be crazy. But more than that that, they have to get made and stay mad. If things don't make a writer mad, he'll end up writing Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottantail.
Leon Uris
#66. I love words. I crave descriptions that overwhelm my imagination with vivid detail. I dwell on phrases that make my heart thrum. I cherish expressions that pierce my emotions and force the tears to spill over. In essence, I long for a writer's soul sealed in ink on the page.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#67. The only reason you can't write is because you don't.
A.A. Patawaran
#68. I often fear to talk so occasionally I express my opinions and my love in writing.
Debasish Mridha
#69. You're a crime fiction writer if...The injustices of this world boil your blood. You become a fucking supernova. So you write.
Verge Le Noir
#70. Words can't describe... shouldn't be in a writer's vocabulary.
Mary M. Forbes
#71. I am a writer because I write, an author because I create, a poet because the words are in my soul.
Wesley D. Gray
#72. When I write fiction, I struggle to decide the fate of two people created by my mind and spend countless hours to give them a happy ending. God, the Almighty has created infinite human beings till date and runs all our lives with such ease. He is the BEST WRITER of all.
Shahla Khan
#73. 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
#74. Don't worry about the consequences, just be a writer!
Samuel Colbran
#78. The writer of Proverbs observed that sharp people sharpen one another, just as iron sharpens iron. If you want to be a sharp thinker, be around sharp people.
John C. Maxwell
#79. Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.
Henry David Thoreau
#80. When I told my teachers I wanted to be a writer, alot of them encouraged me to lower my expectations and to be more realistic. So I rode away on my magical, winged horse, spraying faerie dust behind me, and laughing manically as I went.
M.E. Vaughan
#81. You learn to write by writing, and by reading and thinking about how writers have created their characters and invented their stories. If you are not a reader, don't even think about being a writer.
Jean M. Auel
#82. A writer fills the paper with the pictures of perception, experience, and feeling of real and imaginative lives.
Debasish Mridha
#83. My day will come, but until then, I patiently continue moving forward.
-Never allow yourself to become stagnant-
Andrea L'Artiste
#85. It does not take a million complicated words to call yourself a writer,
it only takes a simple few when they have been placed in the right order.
-Reed Abbitt Moore-
Reed Abbitt Moore
#86. If God didn't want me to cross boundaries, then he wouldn't have made me a writer.
Shannon L. Alder
#87. Thoughts don't have time and space, one need to hold them. The one who succeeds at them becomes a writer.
Santosh Avvannavar
#88. Today is the day that you create worlds, you change lives, you make a something, a someone, out of nothing.
Today is the day you become a writer.
Alessandra Torre
#89. Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand that it is immodest and greedy to want more.
Gore Vidal
#90. As for work, without it, without painstaking work, any writer or artist definitely remains a dilettante; there's no point in waiting for so-called blissful moments, for inspiration; if it comes, so much the better
but you keep working anyway.
Ivan Turgenev
#91. Only something extremely dire and disabling will ever stop a real writer from writing. Retirement is never an option.
Warren Adler
#92. The truth is that I can't remember a moment when I didn't want to be a writer. From childhood, I loved books, I loved stories and I loved writing my own
John Boyne
#93. Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old-fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as writer.
[1967 interview]
Ray Bradbury
#94. For what's a writer without longing?
Eric Arvin
#95. A good writer is one that can see the goodness in others and helps them to be better.
Debasish Mridha
#96. I've been known to write 10 pages a day for 10 days running before I take a breath. I am not a disciplined writer. I'm one of those people who laughingly call themselves inspirational writers, which basically means someone who has no control over their own creative process.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#97. Who thought up the dumb idea to arrange the memoir section in the bookstore by subject?
Slash Coleman
#98. From the writer of "Age of Armageddon: The Spirit of Krynn"
Once one feels justified, one is often bereft of conscience.
Ryan Tyler Palmer
#99. The writer and his reader are both complicit in the act of storytelling. The writer must first leave a part of his soul on the page,like a contagion, which the reader then catches.
Cynthia Ogren
#100. The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall of a cell.
David Nicholls
