Are You Experiencing Writer’s Block Or Lacking Motivation To Write?
Inspirational Writing Quotes
Are your fingers hovering over your keyboard hesitating to move?
I admit that every time I sit down at my laptop to write, I worry that I will have nothing to say.
Some days are better than others. There are times I go to bed at night excited about an idea that I plan to write about the next day.
Other times, I will write about something that I had no intention of exploring. I love when that happens. It is like receiving a surprise gift.
I do have a list of possible writing ideas, but I don’t always refer to it. I sometimes worry what is going to happen when I have used all of these ideas. However, because many times I get ideas from something I have read about or seen on the news, I am not super worried.
If you find yourself experiencing writer’s block, I hope the following quotes will help motivate you to overcome this hurdle.
My favorite inspirational writing quote is the following:
“I’m writing a first draft and reminding myself that I’m simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.”
— Shannon Hale
“You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.”
— Jodi Picoult
“What lasts in the reader’s mind is not the phrase but the effect the phrase created: laughter, tears, pain, joy. If the phrase is not affecting the reader, what’s it doing there? Make it do its job or cut it without mercy or remorse.”
— Isaac Asimov
“What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.”
— Samuel Johnson
“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.”
— Richard Bach
“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”
— Anne Frank
“If I waited for perfection… I would never write a word.”
— Margaret Atwood
“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.”
— Terry Pratchett
“Write. Rewrite. When not writing or rewriting, read. I know of no shortcuts.”
— Larry L. King
“Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
“If you wait for inspiration to write, you’re not a writer, you’re a waiter.”
— Dan Poynter
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
— Maya Angelou
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
— Ernest Hemingway
“The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.”
— Tom Stoppard
“I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say.”
— Flannery O’Connor
“If you are having trouble getting started, look out the window. The whole world is a story, and every moment is a miracle.”
— Bruce Taylor
“Bad writing precedes good writing, This is an infallible rule, so don’t waste time trying to avoid bad writing. (That just slows down the process.) Anything committed to paper can be changed. The idea is to start, and then go from there.”
— Janet Hulstrand
“Very few writers really know what they are doing until they’ve done it.”
— Anne Lamott
“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
— William Wordsworth
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