When it comes to reaching your full potential as a writer, it is important that you stay motivated as much as possible. Remember that the writing process is not as easy as you would think. There will be times when you will lose the will to write.

This is a common occurrence for most writers because you can’t be 100% all the time. You will have your off days wherein you will struggle to get started on the writing process. However, you should never let your writing fervor fizzle out. This may lead to writers block in the long run, and eventually, have you quitting your writing journey.

As a rule, you should find ways to stay inspired during the writing process. A great way to stay motivated during the writing process is to read quotes about writing from famous authors. These authors are all highly respected, and their quotes are a must-read for newbie and veteran writers alike.

Some of these quotes about writing are short and funny, while some are long and sad, however, they are all profound, and will really help jumpstart the writing process for any writer. 

By reading quotes on writing, you will see that even the great writers of the past had their off days and that they needed to work hard in order to create great works. You will also get great tips on how to improve your writing and stay motivated no matter the setback. 

Here are inspirational writing quotes for writers:

  • Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

- Neil Gaiman


  • 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

  • Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.

                      Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.

- William Faulkner

  • The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.

-Kurt Vonnegut


  • A story was a form of telepathy. By means of inking symbols onto a page, she was able to send thoughts and feelings from her mind to her reader's. It was a magical process, so commonplace that no one stopped to wonder at it.

-Ian McEwan, 

  • I have advice for people who want to write. I don't care whether they're 5 or 500. There are three things that are important: First, if you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you. Where you just put down what you think about life, what you think about things, what you think is fair and what you think is unfair. And second, you need to read. You can't be a writer if you're not a reader. It's the great writers who teach us how to write. The third thing is to write. Just write a little bit every day. Even if it's for only half an hour -- write, write, write.

-Madeleine L'Engle

  • Write every day, line by line, page by page, hour by hour. Do this despite fear. For above all else, beyond imagination and skill, what the world asks of you is courage, courage to risk rejection, ridicule and failure. As you follow the quest for stories told with meaning and beauty, study thoughtfully but write boldly. Then, like the hero of the fable, your dance will dazzle the world.

- Robert McKee

  • This is the other secret that real artists know and wannabe writers don't. When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us. The Muse takes note of our dedication. She approves. We have earned favor in her sight. When we sit down and work, we become like a magnetized rod that attracts iron filings. Ideas come. Insights accrete."

-Steven Pressfield


  • Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her scribbling suit, and fall into a vortex, as she expressed it, writing away at her novel with all her heart and soul, for till that was finished she could find no peace.

-Louisa May Alcott

  • Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on those days. The funny thing is that, although writing has been my actual job for several years now, I still seem to have to fight for time in which to do it. Some people do not seem to grasp that I still have to sit down in peace and write the books, apparently believing that they pop up like mushrooms without my connivance.

-J.K. Rowling

  • You should always be trying to write a poem you are unable to write, a poem you lack the technique, the language, the courage to achieve. Otherwise you're merely imitating yourself, going nowhere, because that's always easiest.

-John Berryman

  • You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.

-Octavia E. Butler

  • The things that the novel does not say are necessarily more numerous than those it does say and only a special halo around what is written can give the illusion that you are reading also what is not written.

  -Italo Calvino


If you are having trouble getting into your writing groove, you should really find ways to jumpstart the writing process. A great way to do this is to read quotes about writing from the great writers of the past. With these quotes, you’ll be more than ready to get started on your writing journey.