Today, in this blog post, I’m sharing with you 25 inspirational quotes for discouraged writers. If you have experienced writer’s block or are having trouble starting or completing your manuscript, these quotations are exactly what you need to help you get back on track with your writing.
I hope that these quotes will motivate you to be more creative and to achieve your writing goals.
- “Don’t forget – no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.” – Charles de Lint
- “A writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, or because everything she does is golden. A writer is a writer because, even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway.” – Junot Diaz, Professor of Writing, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2008.
- “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” – Zig Ziglar
- “First drafts don’t have to be perfect. They just have to be written.” – Heidi Thomas
- “The worst thing you write is better than the best thing you didn’t write”. – Author unknown
- “Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.” – William Wordsworth
- “Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.” – Anne Lamott
- “You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.” – Jack London
- “Write until it becomes as natural as breathing. Write until not writing makes you anxious.” – Author unknown
- “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Agatha Christie
11. “You must learn to hush the demons that whisper, “No one wants to read this. This has already been said. Your voice doesn’t matter.” In the rare moments when the voices finally hush, you might hear the angels sing.” – Margaret Feinberg
12. “You fail only if you stop writing.” – Ray Bradbury
13. “Allow yourself to be a beginner. No one starts off being excellent.” – Wendy Flynn
14. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
15. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” – Maya Angelou
16. “The secret of it all is to write … without waiting for a fit time or place.” – Walt Whitman
17. “To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream, not only plan but also believe.” – Anatole France
18. “Avoiding failure is to avoid progress.” – Author unknown
19. “Don’t worry. You’ll figure it out – you always do. Just keep writing.” – Author unknown
20. “It’s not what you are that holds you back, it’s what you think you are not.” – Denis Waitley
21. “All writing problems are psychological problems. Blocks usually stem from the fear of being judged. If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.” – Erica Jong
22. “And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” – Sylvia Plath
23. “A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.” – Richard Bach
24. “Whatever your mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” – Napoleon Hill
25. “There are no limits to what you can accomplish, except the limits you place on your own thinking.” – Brian Tracy
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