Inspiring Writing Quotes - Page 3

• What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

  Salman Rushdie

  Powerful, Being Alone, Creativity

  "East, west" by Alan Rafferty, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2003.

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• What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Powerful, Believe, Reading

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• Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.

  Susan Sontag

  Powerful, Years, Able

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• Writers don't retire. I will always be a writer.

  Andy Rooney

  Powerful, Writing, Retiring

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• Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

  Joseph Joubert

  Powerful, Writing, Never Giving Up

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• The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

  John Steinbeck

  Powerful, Believe, Writing

  The New York Times, June 02, 1969.

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• Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Powerful, Book, Writing

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Powerful, Writing

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• The thing with Superman is that he's completely emotionally open to the reader. Meaning what he tells you is what he's feeling; there's a transparency there. And what he tells other characters is usually as transparent as can be. What he says he believes in. So there's an honesty that is both really inspiring writing the character. One thing I love about Clark Kent is that there is a badassery that you don't see a lot. Even as Superman, he's always kind of restraining himself. When you challenge him, I think there's nobody that has a stronger spine than Superman.

  Scott Snyder

  Honesty, Believe, Writing

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• The grandest seduction of all is the myth that DOING EVERYTHING BETTER gets us where we want to be. It gets us somewhere, certainly, but not anywhere worth being

  Shauna Niequist

  Powerful, Writing, Want

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• [P]eople need to use their intelligence to evaluate what they find to be true and untrue in the Bible. This is how we need to live life generally. Everything we hear and see we need to evaluate—whether the inspiring writings of the Bible or the inspiring writings of Shakespeare, Dostoevsky, or George Eliot, of Ghandi, Desmond Tutu, or the Dalai Lama.

  Bart D. Ehrman

  Live Life, Writing, Needs

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• If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you into conformity with their comfortable little standards. Standards so low that they can no longer be considered "dangerous" but set in place in their compartmental understandings.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Art, Powerful

  Jack Kerouac (2016). “The Unknown Kerouac: Rare, Unpublished, & Newly Translated Writings”, p.402, Library of America

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• The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Powerful, Writing, Bad Ass

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• You can't outwit fate by standing on the sidelines placing little sidebets about the outcome of life. either you wade in and risk everything you have to play the game or you don't play at all. and if u don't play u can't win.

  Judith McNaught

  Inspirational, Powerful, Fate

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• Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.

  Maya Angelou

  Powerful, Writing, Heart

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• If you show someone something you've written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, ‘When you’re ready’.

  David Mitchell

  Powerful, Lying, Giving

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• I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.

  Samuel Johnson

  Art, Powerful, Criticism

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1888). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”

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  Ignore all hatred and criticism. Live for what you create, and die protecting it.

  Lady Gaga

  Music, Powerful, Hatred

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