23 Motivational Quotes for Authors by Authors

Motivational Quotesfor Authors by Authors23

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”

Ernest Hemingway

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”

Benjamin Franklin

“The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.”

Gustave Flaubert

“Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”

E. L. Doctorow

“Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very'; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”

Mark Twain

“All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.”

J. K. Rowling

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”

Ray Bradbury

“Easy reading is damn hard writing.”

Nathaniel Hawthorne

“To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.”

Truman Capote

“Listen to many, speak to a few.”

William Shakespeare

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

Maya Angelou

“Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities”

Dr. Seuss

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing.”

Seth Godin

“If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.”

Shereen El Feki

“You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.”

Stephen King

“You fail only if you stop writing.”

Ray Bradbury

“My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.”

Anais Nin

“Good writing is like a windowpane.”

George Orwell

“Most of us have two lives: the life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.”

Steven Pressfield

“There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.”

Haruki Murakami

"A writer's job is to give us moments that last a lifetime."

Robert McKee

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