Inspirations and Anecdotes

Inspirational quotes to help us young writers continue pursuing our dreams.

Inspiration:

1. "If you wait for inspiration to come to you, you're a waiter, not a writer"

2. "When starting your day, do the one task you hate the most"

3. "Dream BIG, start small, but START!"

4. "If I waited for perfection, I'd never write a word" - Margaret Atwood

5. "Write until it becomes as natural as breathing - write until NOT writing makes you anxious."

6. "If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you have to write it." - Toni Morrison

7. "Finish the damn book. Nothing else matters. Stop second-guessing yourself and write it through to the end. You don't know what you have until you've finished it. You don't know how to fix it until it's all down on the page." - Lauren Beukes

8. "If a story is in you, it has to come out." - William Faulkner

9. "A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit." - Richard Bach

10. "Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly: all these make for great stories." - Chuck Palahniuk

Anecdotes:

1. I hope someday to write something worth plagiarizing.

2. The voices in my head told me to write what the voices in my head tell me.

3. The five most important words: You did a great job.

4. Murphy's Law: "If anything can go wrong, invariably it will."

5. “I am very sorry for sending you such a long letter, but I did not find enough time to write a shorter one.” (Goethe)

6. "Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all of those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation." - Graham Greene

7. "To colon or semi-colon; that is the question." - Abademi Sanusi

8. "You sexy writer, you."

9. "No one else will write it for you."

10. "Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten." - Neil Gaiman


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