Quotes That Will Inspire YOU To Write

“When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, ‘I am going to produce a work of art.’ I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing.”
—George Orwell

“Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works.”
—Virginia Woolf

“It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.”
—Robert Benchley

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. ~Ernest Hemingway

The desire to write grows with writing. ~Desiderius Erasmus

Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. ~ Anton Chekhov

Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. 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

Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way. ~ Ray Bradbury

Show the readers everything, tell them nothing. ~ Ernest Hemingway

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