Yeah, Just Type Faster!

 

 

“Treat it like a job,” they say.

“Write every day,” they say.

“You can’t edit a blank page.”

And yet…you’re not writing!

And that is okay. Totally fine. Because this list of the best quotes about writing is going to help. Authors & experts have been floundering behind their quills, typewriters, and laptops for hundreds of years, and they can speak from experience right to your heart to get you back to doing the thing you love.

Writing is a solitary venture, sure, but if anyone knows that the magic of writing can read the minds of incredible people, it’s writers. Read quotes & tape them to the walls of your workplace to remind yourself that if Hemingway and Gaiman ran through writer’s block, you can too.

Writers, English teachers, and librarians, rejoice! Whether you’re looking for inspiration or some new content for your Instagram or classroom walls, this list is sure to have a quote that you’ll find insightful.

Here are some of our favorite writing quotes!

1. “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” – Ernest Hemingway

2. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” –  Maya Angelou

3. “The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.” — Robert Benchley

4. “Let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences.” — Sylvia Plath

5. “If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered.” – Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

6. “In order to write about life first you must live it.” – Ernest Hemingway

7. “Write. Rewrite. When not writing or rewriting, read. I know of no shortcuts.” — Larry L. King, WD

8. “I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see, and what it means. What I want and what I fear.” – Joan Didion

9. “The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.” – Mark Twain, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain

10. “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
– Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

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