15 Inspirational Quotes About Writing

“Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.” – G.K. Chesterton

“Your time is the one resource you have as a writer. Where do you put your time?” – Joe Abercrombe

“Whether writing or speaking, know when to stop.” – Garth Nix

“I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I’m afraid of.” – Joss Whedon

“Wasn’t writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination?” – Ian McEwan

“Write about the emotions you fear the most.” – Laurie Halse Anderson

“Writing will be like a journey, every word a footstep that takes me further into undiscovered land.” – David Almond

“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.” – Anne Frank

“We’re all stories in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?” – The Doctor

“Writing a first draft and reminding myself that I’m simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.” – Shannon Hale

“Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.” – Elie Wiesel

“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.” – C.S. Lewis

“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.” – Madeleine L’Engle

“I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which ‘Escape’ is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?” – J.R.R. Tolkien