Motivating quotes for writers

A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper - E.B. White, author of Charlotte’s Webb and Stuart Little


Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. Start by getting something – anything – down on paper. What I’ve learned to do when I sit down to work on a sh**ty first draft is to quiet the voices in my head - Anne Lamott, author of Bird By Bird


Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do - Mark Twain


We have to accept ourselves in order to write. Now none of us does that fully: few of us do it even halfway. Don’t wait for one hundred percent acceptance of yourself before you write, or even eight percent acceptance. Just write. The process of writing is an activity that teaches us about acceptance - Natalie Goldberg, author of Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life


The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you’re rewriting a novel you will never be stuck - Ernest Hemingway