235 Quotes About Writing-inspiration

A good writer reveals beauty in the mundane and truth in tragedy. Words are a tool; a currency of the mind, and the best writers weave passages into our hearts that our bones remember.

Writing comes from deep within, seeping out of the soul onto the white of paper. It carries with it the lifeblood of the artist, exposing their secrets to the world.

My theory is you shouldn't apologize for believing in an idea-channeling muse. You should just be sure to feed her.

The satisfaction I feel from finishing another story is tantamount to, say, crossing the finish line for the career marathoner.

a sentence a day keeps the doldrums at bay

I would be perfectly willing if a publisher came up to me and said, "I need a novel about underwater Nazi cheerleaders and it has to be 309 pages long and I need fourteen chapters and a prologue.

I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.

Every moment offers a great opportunity to write.

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.