Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards. - Robert A. Heinlein #writerinspiration #authormotivation #onwriting

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable. - Francis Bacon #writerinspiration #authormotivation #onwriting

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge. - H. G. Wells #writerinspiration #authormotivation #onwriting

When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you're done, you have to step back and look at the forest. - Stephen King #writerinspiration #authormotivation #onwriting

Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon. - E.L. Doctorow #writerinspiration #authormotivation #onwriting

Writing gives thought solid form. Get your raw mental process on paper. Read. Revise. Reduce. Clarify. Disciplined writing is disciplined thinking. - The Stoic Emperor #writerinspiration #authormotivation #onwriting

There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year ... if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself. - Mark Twain #writerinspiration #authormotivation #onwriting

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves. - Lillian Hellman #writerinspiration #authormotivation #onwriting

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader. - Robert Frost #writerinspiration #authormotivation #onwriting

What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other. - Manuel Puig #writerinspiration #authormotivation #onwriting

If it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. Unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don't do it. - Charles Bukowski #writerinspiration #authormotivation #onwriting

The first sentence can't be written until the final sentence is written. - Joyce Carol Oates #writerinspiration #authormotivation #onwriting

Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading. - William Zinsser #writerinspiration #authormotivation #onwriting

Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent. - Neil Gaiman #writerinspiration #authormotivation #onwriting

I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide. - Harper Lee #writerinspiration #authormotivation #onwriting

The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting. - Arthur Schopenhauer #writerinspiration #authormotivation #onwriting

Writing is meant to move the heart, the mind, the soul - not the page-view meter. - Maria Popova #writerinspiration #authormotivation #onwriting

I try to leave out the parts that people skip. - Elmore Leonard #writerinspiration #authormotivation #onwriting

As a writer you should not judge, you should understand. - Ernest Hemingway #writerinspiration #authormotivation #onwritingv

If you wait for inspiration to write, you're not a writer, you're a waiter. - Dan Poynter #writerinspiration #authormotivation #onwriting