For writers who are feeling stuck, uninspired, burnt out or worried that they’re just not good enough.

These quotes are here to reignite your creativity and help you rediscover your writerly confidence.

As a writer who was constantly in this stop-and-start writing spiral during their twenties, I know all about the struggles to keep going when your goal seems out of reach.

But I now understand how exciting life is when we throw aside the worries and let our creative passion thrive.

Let these words guide you as you get back to writing!

1. It is never too late to be what you might have been. – George Eliot
2. Stop aspiring and start writing. – Alan Wilson Watts
3. If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it. – Toni Morrison
4. Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself. – Mark Twain
5. Start before you’re ready. – Steven Pressfield

1. Good writing is essentially rewriting. – Roald Dahl
2. You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page. – Jodi Picoult
3. If I waited for perfection, I would never write a word. – Margaret Atwood
4. The first draft is just you telling yourself the story. – Terry Pratchett
5. I am not at all in a humour for writing; I must write on until I am. – Jane Austen

1. First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him! – Ray Bradbury
2. Write what should not be forgotten. – Isabel Allende
3. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. – Annie Dillard
4. No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader. – Robert Frost
5. I write to discover what I know. – Flannery O’Connor

1. To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. – Herman Melville
2. All the information you need can be given in dialogue. – Elmore Leonard
3. Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. – Anton Chekhov
4. Words can be like x-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced. – Aldous Huxley
5. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write. – Annie Proulx

Have a favourite quote from a writer? Share it in the comments below.

Talk soon!

Julia