15 Inspirational Writing Quotes from Famous Writers

 

We have helped gathered 15 inspirational writing quotes from famous writers in the world for your reading delight. Find them below:

 

1. I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.
   – Stephen King

 

2. Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.
   – Ernest Hemingway

 

3. It’s none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way.
   – Ernest Hemingway

 

4. Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.
   – Mark Twain

 

5. And as imagination bodies forth
   The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen
   Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
   A local habitation and a name.
   – William Shakespeare (from A Midsummer Night’s Dream)

 

6. If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.
   – Somerset Maugham

 

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

 

8. It is perfectly okay to write garbage—as long as you edit brilliantly.
   – C. J. Cherryh

 

9. It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.
   – Robert Benchley

 

10. Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old-fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he’ll eventually make some kind of career for himself as a writer.
    – Ray Bradbury

 

11. A blank piece of paper is God’s way of telling us how hard it is to be God.
    – Sidney Sheldon

 

12. Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.
    – Henry David Thoreau

 

13. If you have other things in your life—family, friends, good productive day work—these can interact with your writing and the sum will be all the richer.
    – David Brin

 

14. My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.
    – Anton Chekhov

 

15. I have been successful probably because I have always realized that I knew nothing about writing and have merely tried to tell an interesting story entertainingly.
    – Edgar Rice Burroughs