A ton of writer’s quotes to help you get through it all. Nothing fancy. Just encouragement. Enjoy!
Note: when the quote was too long for twitter, I offered a shortened version. Share the love!
[bctt tweet=”Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” ~Pablo Picasso” via=”no”]
[bctt tweet=”If you are willing to do something that might not work, you’re closer to being an artist. ~Seth Godin” via=”no”]
[bctt tweet=”You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. ~Maya Angelou” via=”no”]
[bctt tweet=”If I waited for perfection, I would never write a word. ~Margaret Atwood” via=”no”]
[bctt tweet=”Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make more art. ~Andy Warhol” via=”no”]
[bctt tweet=”The most important thing in writing is to have written. I can always fix a bad page. I can’t fix a blank one. ~Nora Roberts” via=”no”]
[bctt tweet=”To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it. ~ Kurt Vonnegut” via=”no”]
[bctt tweet=”The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. ~Sylvia Plath” via=”no”]
[bctt tweet=”The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. ~Anais Nin” via=”no”]
[bctt tweet=”Writing is a sweet, wonderful reward. ~Franz Kafka” via=”no”]
[bctt tweet=”A writer’s apprenticeship usually involves writing a million words (which are then discarded) before he’s almost ready to begin. ~David Eddings” via=”no”]
[bctt tweet=”However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.” ~Jean Rousseau” via=”no”]
[bctt tweet=”You must want to enough. Enough to take all the rejections, enough to pay the price of disappointment and discouragement while you are learning. (Y)ou must learn your craft—then you can add all the genius you like. ~Phyllis A. Whitney” via=”no”]
[bctt tweet=”It is perfectly okay to write garbage—as long as you edit brilliantly. ~ C. J. Cherryh” via=”no”]
[bctt tweet=”Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. ~William Wordsworth” via=”no”]
[bctt tweet=”You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.” ~Ray Bradbury” via=”no”]
[bctt tweet=”Write without pay until somebody offers to pay.” ~Mark Twain” via=”no”]
[bctt tweet=”Easy reading is damn hard writing.” ~Nathaniel Hawthorne” via=”no”]
[bctt tweet=”I’m not a very good writer, but I’m an excellent rewriter.” ~James Michener” via=”no”]
[bctt tweet=”Ink and paper are sometimes passionate lovers, oftentimes brother and sister, and occasionally mortal enemies. ~Emme Woodhull-Bäche” via=”no”]
[bctt tweet=”When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.” ~Enrique Jardiel Poncela” via=”no”]
[bctt tweet=”Writing is a struggle against silence.” ~Carlos Fuentes” via=”no”]
[bctt tweet=”Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake. ~E.L. Doctorow” via=”no”]
[bctt tweet=”The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson” via=”no”]
[bctt tweet=”The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.” ~André Gide” via=”no”]
[bctt tweet=”The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress. ~Philip Roth” via=”no”]
[bctt tweet=”We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master. ~Ernest Hemingway” via=”no”]
[bctt tweet=”Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, is written large in his works. ~Virginia Woolf” via=”no”]
[bctt tweet=”One thing that helps is to give myself permission to write badly. I’ll have lost nothing—writing and tearing up 5 pages would leave me no further behind than if I took the day off ~ Lawrence Block, WD” via=”no”]
[bctt tweet=”The first sentence can’t be written until the final sentence is written. ~Joyce Carol Oates” via=”no”]
[bctt tweet=”Long patience and application saturated with your heart’s blood—you will either write or you will not—and the only way to find out whether you will or not is to try. ~Jim Tully” via=”no”]
[bctt tweet=”Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper. ~Ray Bradbury” via=”no”]
[bctt tweet=”Remember: Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.” ~Ray Bradbury” via=”no”]
[bctt tweet=”It’s none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way. ~Ernest Hemingway” via=”no”]
[bctt tweet=”Writers live twice.~Natalie Goldberg” via=”no”]
