Motivational‌ ‌Quotes‌ ‌for‌ ‌Writers‌ ‌That Will Inspire You Quickly

If you ever seek inspiration or quick tips to keep doing better in your writing, simply dive into these quotes for writers to get an instant dose of motivation.

How often do you think about your writing – “Oh! this just isn’t good enough?” The feeling of disappointment often becomes a constant companion of most writers who prone to perfection. If you think your best one is yet to be written, it is completely normal. So, never get too hard on yourself.

Writing is an art and to master this art, you need deliberate practice and thorough study. Fortunately, some of the renowned writers, who mastered this art, shared their stories, strategies, philosophies, and habits related to writing.

Here are motivational quotes for writers to get inspiration:

If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that. -Stephen King

If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it. -Toni Morrison

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. -Benjamin Franklin

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced. -Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

You can make anything by writing. -C.S. Lewis

A word after a word after a word is power. -Margaret Atwood

You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write. -Annie Proulx

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself. -Albert Camus

As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand. -Ernest Hemingway

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. -Thomas Jefferson

The Next Ten Quotes for Writers Are Super Inspiring

If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. Or, if proper usage gets in the way, it may have to go. I can’t allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative. - Elmore Leonard

Writers live twice. -Natalie Goldberg

To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. -Herman Melville

Writing is its own reward. -Henry Miller

Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. -Anne Lamott

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, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on. -Louis L’Amour

Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are like dancers, like athletes. Without that exercise, the muscles seize up. -Jane Yolen

So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads. -Dr. Seuss

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know. -Ernest Hemingway

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. -Stephen King

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. -William Wordsworth

Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got. -Philip José Farmer

You must write every single day of your life… You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads… may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world. -Ray Bradbury

You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write. -Annie Proulx

The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book. -Samuel Johnson

If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor. -Edgar Rice Burroughs

The main rule of writing is that if you do it with enough assurance and confidence, you’re allowed to do whatever you like. (That may be a rule for life as well as for writing. But it’s definitely true for writing.) So write your story as it needs to be written. Write it ­honestly, and tell it as best you can. I’m not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter. -Neil Gaiman

A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit. -Richard Bach

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise. -Oscar Wilde

Serious writers write, inspired or not. Over time they discover that routine is a better friend than inspiration. -Ralph Keyes

A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill. -Jane Austen

Writing isn’t about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it’s about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well. It’s about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy. -Stephen King

Stop aspiring and start writing. If you’re writing, you’re a writer. Write like you’re a goddamn death row inmate and the governor is out of the country and there’s no chance for a pardon. Write like you’re clinging to the edge of a cliff, white knuckles, on your last breath, and you’ve got just one last thing to say, like you’re a bird flying over us and you can see everything, and please, for God’s sake, tell us something that will save us from ourselves. -Alan W. Watts

The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. -Anais Nin

Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either. -Meg Cabot

Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write. -Rainer Maria Rilke

A Few More Quotes for Writers

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way. -Ernest Hemingway

You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say. -F. Scott Fitzgerald

There are books full of great writing that don’t have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story… don’t be like the book-snobs who won’t do that. Read sometimes for the words–the language. Don’t be like the play-it-safers who won’t do that. But when you find a book that has both a good story and good words, treasure that book. -Stephen King

Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say infinitely when you mean very; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. -C.S. Lewis

A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect? -George Orwell

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There’s no way around these two things that I’m aware of, no shortcut. -Stephen King

The power of a writer is that he is a god of sorts. He can create his own worlds and populate them with his own people, all by the powers of his imagination. It’s the closest a man can come close to the gods. No wonder the most successful writers are considered immortals. -Bangambiki Habyarimana

A writer will find inspiration anywhere. They have to look and see, that’s all. Then they have to write. -Dermott Hayes

It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write. -Sinclair Lewis

I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write. You have to spend a lifetime in love with words. -Craig Claiborne

Writing is like riding a bike. Once you gain momentum, the hills are easier. Editing, however, requires a motor and some horsepower. -Gina McKnight

Use the right word, not its second cousin. -Mark Twain

You say you have nothing to write about? How do you find things to talk about? You can write about those things you like to talk about, that’s your area of expertise. -Bangambiki Habyarimana

Bonus Quotes

Writing is a sickness only cured by writing. -Niall Williams

The main thing is to WRITE. Some days it might be 2000 words. Some days you might tinker with two sentences until you get them just right. Both days belong in the writing life. Some days you may watch a ‘Doctor Who’ marathon or become immersed in a book that is so good you can’t stop reading. Some days you may be in love or in mourning. Those days belong in the writing life, too. Live them without guilt. -L.K. Madigan

Do you have any favorite one among these quotes for writers? Which one inspires you the most to become a writer or do better in your writing? Do share your thoughts.

If you like any other quotes about writing that I haven’t included in this post, feel free to share. Your thoughts and suggestions are always welcome in the comment section below.