Here are inspiring quotes about writing from famous authors to fuel your creativity:
- Stephen King: “If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write.”
- Annie Proulx: “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.”
- Eudora Welty: “Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.”
- William Faulkner: “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.”
- Robert Louis Stevenson: “I kept always two books in my pocket: one to read, one to write in.”
- Ernest Gaines: “The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.”
- Samuel Johnson: “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.”
- Lisa See: “Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.”
- Mary B. W. Tabor: “One sure window into a person’s soul is his reading list.”
Remember, inspiration often lies just around the corner of life.
Happy writing!
