Another 10 Inspirational Quotes for Writers

Earlier this month, I posted ten quotes on writing to inspire writers and those who are participating in NaNoWriMo this year.

Well, I’m back with another ten to inspire and help anyone who may be struggling with their place as a writer. Especially with NaNa ending in a few days, we all could use that extra push!

1. “Stopping a piece of work just because it’s hard, either emotionally or imaginatively, is a bad idea. Sometimes you have to go on when you don’t feel like it, and sometimes you’re doing good work when it feels like all you’re managing is to shovel shit from a sitting position.” — Stephen King
2. “You’re going to be unemployed if you really think you have to just sit around and wait for the muse to land on your shoulder… I think the muse would be an awfully fickle character to depend on for your livelihood. That’s not the way I work. I build a story.” — Nora Roberts
3. “Stop measuring yourself against other writers. Very, very few of us will ever achieve anything close to fame or longevity; the only goal is to tell the truest, best, most interesting version of the story you want to tell. Every single other thing is out of your control.” — Tom McAllister
4. “Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are like dancers, like athletes. Without that exercise, the muscles seize up.” — Jane Yolen
5. “This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until it's done. It’s that easy, and that hard.” — Neil Gaiman
6. “A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.” — Richard Bach
7. “Serious writers write, inspired or not. Over time they discover that routine is a better friend than inspiration.” — Ralph Keyes
8. “A blank piece of paper is God’s way of telling us how hard it is to be God.” — Sidney Sheldon
9. “I do not over-intellectualise the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.” — Tom Clancy, WD
10. “The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.” — Toni Morrison

I hope everyone’s NaNoWriMo is going well! I’m at 48,351 of 50,000 total words and I’ll finish it tonight!

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