Sometimes writers need inspiration. Here’s a list of our favorite writing quotes to help.
- “The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.” —Philip Roth
- “We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.” —Ernest Hemingway
- “I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.” —Tom Clancy
- “Writers live twice.” —Natalie Goldberg
- “Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover?” —Stevie Nicks
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“A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.” —Friedrich Nietzsche
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“A writer falls in love with an idea and gets carried away.” —Doris Lessing
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“If you want to find out what a writer or a cartoonist really feels, look at his work. That’s enough.” —Shel Silverstein
- “Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.” —Henry David Thoreau