235 Quotes About Writing-inspiration

Just Keep Writing! Who cares if it's a Saturday, or if you left your laptop at home, or if you're around people? Just write one word, one line, jot down one idea. No matter how little you write, it’s movement in the right direction. Forward. Toward completion.

Books are a gateway to the extraordinary, a portal for the unfettered imagination and limitless creativity.

You hold in your heart everything you need to know to write anything your story needs written.

Write the best thing you can, whatever it is. It is deeply moving to read a letter from Spain or somewhere that says they read my book and fell in love with my daughter. Or that a book I wrote changed their life. It is amazing to be on the receiving end of that. Don't deny yourself that.

Escribiría sobre gente y lugares que yo conociera, y haría que mis personajes hablaran un lenguaje cotidiano. Y dejaría que el sol se levantara y se pusiera de la forma normal y tranquila que hace normalmente, sin hacer muchas alharacas al respecto. Si tuviera que introducir un villano en mi historia, le daría una oportunidad (...) Supongo que hay algunos hombres malvados en el mundo, pero hay que andar un buen rato para encontrarlos.

Writing is an art. A document is your canvas, words are your paint, and a keyboard is your paintbrush.

A pen is never worthless. In the right hand, it holds a whole world and all the treasures you could ever want. Now write your story. All of it.

Writers tell you what to think. Great writers make you think.

My first draft is usually how I meant it, but my second and third drafts is how I want to be understood.