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Do you need inspiration, a laugh, or advice? These 25 quotes for authors might be just the pick-me-up you need!
Inspirational Quotes for Authors
1 . “If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.”
—Toni Morrison
2. “I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”
—Anne Frank
3. “Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it’s the answer to everything . . . It’s the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower out of life, even if it’s a cactus.”
—Enid Bagnold
4. “If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality.”
—Roopleen
5. “If you have other things in your life—family, friends, good productive day work—these can interact with your writing and the sum will be all the richer.”
—David Brin
6. “Writing is its own reward.”
—Henry Miller
7. “If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor.”
—Edgar Rice Burroughs
Funny Quotes for Authors
8. “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
9. “If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.”
—Isaac Asimov
10. “I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.”
—Douglas Adams
11. “Half my life is an act of revision.”
—John Irving
12. “It’s none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way.”
—Ernest Hemingway
13. “It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.”
—Robert Benchley
14. “I was sorry to hear my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I am not feeling very well myself.”
—Mark Twain
15. “When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am a grown up they call me a writer.”
—Isaac Bashevis Singer
Advice about Writing
16. “Write. Rewrite. When not writing or rewriting, read. I know of no shortcuts.”
—Larry L. King
17. “The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.”
—Samuel Johnson
18. “No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.”
—E. B. White
19. “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
20. “No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
—Robert Frost
21. “All the information you need can be given in dialogue.”
—Elmore Leonard
22. “I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.”
—Harper Lee
23. “You do not have to explain every single drop of water contained in a rain barrel. You have to explain one drop—H2O. The reader will get it.”
—George Singleton
24. “Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.”
—Barbara Kingsolver
25. “Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it’s the only way you can do anything really good.”
—William Faulkner
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