Writing Quotes - What to Write Quotes - Inspiration and Creativity, Creative Process

Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it.

Jesse Stuart



If I'm trying to sleep, the ideas won't stop. If I'm trying to write, there appears a barren nothingness.
Carrie Latet


You can't wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club.
Jack London


Now and again thousands of memories converge, harmonize, arrange themselves around a central idea in a coherent form, and I write a story.

Katherine Anne Porter




If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write.
William Somerset Maugham




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




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


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Writing Quotes - Perfection & Don't Be a Perfectionist Quotes

I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have.
Leonardo da Vinci




As with all other aspects of the narrative art, you will improve with practice, but practice will never make you perfect. Why should it? What fun would that be?
Stephen King




I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.
Gustave Flaubert


It's tougher than Himalayan yak jerky on january. But, as any creative person will tell you, there are days when there's absolutely nothing sweeter than creating something from nothing.
Richard Krzemien

Writing Quotes - Learning How To Write and Learning from Other Writers

In brief, I spend half my time trying to learn the secrets of other writers - to apply them to the expression of my own thoughts.
Shirley Ann Grau



By writing much, one learns to write well.
Robert Southey



You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it.
Ursula K. LeGuin



A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident.
W. Somerset Maugham


You learn by writing short stories. Keep writing short stories. The money's in novels, but writing short stories keeps your writing lean and pointed.
Larry Niven


The only way to learn to write is to write.
Peggy Teeters



It's none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way.

Ernest Hemingway




We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
Ernest Hemingway




Don't fear making a mistake; fear failing to learn and move forward.
Pilip Humbert


You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.
Gene Wolfe


As a writer I'm merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez


If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write.
Somerset Maugham