Writing is often difficult work, truly a passionate labor that often bears no fruit for the author. For those times when you want to walk away from your craft, take a word of inspiration from those authors who have felt the same. And then, write on.
Quotes to inspire:
- If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. – Toni Morrison
- That which does not kill us makes us stronger. – Nietzsche
- Books are a uniquely portable magic. – Stephen King
- Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window. – William Faulkner
- There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. – Maya Angelou
- We live and breathe words. – Cassandra Clare
- You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children. – Madeleine L’Engle
- Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on. – Louis L’Amour
- To gain your own voice, you have to forget about having it heard. – Allen Ginsberg
- Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of 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
- It ain’t whatcha write, it’s the way atcha write it. – Jack Kerouac
- Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life. – Stephen King
- There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. – Ernest Hemingway
- Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life. – Hunter S. Thompson
- Good books don't give up all their secrets at once. – Stephen King
- Write. Rewrite. When not writing or rewriting, read. I know of no shortcuts. – Larry L. King
- The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. – George Bernard Shaw
- You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist. – Nietzsche
- If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. – Stephen King
