Top Ten Quotes For Writers
Here are some good quotes that'll help boil out the writer in you. They've inspired me a lot and I hope that they inspire you too.
Quotes
“You don’t start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it’s good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it.
That’s why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.”
― Octavia E. Butler“Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.”
― Lisa See"Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works.”
— Virginia Woolf“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.”
― Terry Pratchett"You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.”
― Jodi Picoult"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“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”
— Louis L’Amour"When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat. This is going to hurt; revising a story down to the bare essentials is always a little like murdering children, but it must be done.”
— Stephen King"I believe myself that a good writer doesn’t really need to be told anything except to keep at it.”
— Chinua Achebe"Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any."
— Orson Scott
Which of these quotes do you like most....... Mine is 5
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