45 Motivational Quotes for Aspiring Writers
Why do we need 45 Motivational Quotes for Aspiring Writers?
Because creating a piece of written work worthy of publication is no easy task! Day after day we sit at our computers working long hours and sometimes it can take months or even years before we see any results. While all writers need regular doses of encouragement, it is especially imperative that aspiring writers who are still learning or who have not yet been published find ways to maintain their motivation.
You can do this! You can write that book, or magazine article, or literary masterpiece that you have put so much of your time, effort, and heart into as you strive for completion. Never doubt yourself. You have the power to learn what you do not know, grow in skill, and persevere to ‘The End.’ You’ve got this!
Need further convincing? Read on and see that you are not alone. Dozens of others before you have all struggled and persevered. Some of the quotes are from writers, others are from wise individuals whose advice is relevant to anyone who needs an extra boost to lift their spirit. Choose your favorite from below:
1) “A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.” – Richard Bach
2) “Don’t forget – no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.” – Charles de Lint
3) “A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper.” – E.B. White (1899-1965) American writer.
4) “A writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, or because everything she does is golden. A writer is a writer because, even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway.” – Junot Diaz, Professor of Writing
5) “Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe, shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.” – John Jakes
6) “Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars and to change the world.” – Harriet Tubman
7) “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney
8) “There’s no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.” – Wayne Dyer
9) “The only limits to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
10) “In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.” – Nikos Kazantzakis
11) “If I waited for perfection, I would never write a word.” – Margaret Atwood
12) “Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek.” – Mario Andretti
13) “Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.” – David Thoreau
14) “I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning to sail my ship.” – Louisa May Alcott
15) “Sometimes (writing) comes easily and perfectly. Sometimes it’s like drilling rock and blasting it out with charges.” – Ernest Hemingway, in a letter to editor Charles Poore, 1953
16) “If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.” – H. G. Wells
17) “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
18) “To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.” – Bette Davis
19) “When you get in a tight place and everything goes against you till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the time and the place the tide will turn.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe
20) “Contrary to what many of you might imagine, a career in letters is not without its drawbacks – chief among them the unpleasant fact that one is frequently called upon to actually sit down and write.” – Fran Lebowitz, Metropolitan Life
21) “There are no limits to what you can accomplish, except the limits you place on your own thinking.” – Brian Tracy
22) “Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.” – Ellie Wiesel
23) “A shotglass of desire is greater than a pitcher of talent.” – Andy Munthe
24) “Where there is great love there are always miracles.” – Willa Cather, American author
25) “A blank piece of paper is God’s way of telling us how hard it is to be God.” – Sidney Sheldon
26) “Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves.” – Carol Pearson
27) “If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I’d type a little faster.” – Isaac Asimov
28) “What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.” – Samuel Johnson
29) “Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.” – Stephen Spielberg
30) “One idea lights a thousand candles.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
31) “Every artist was first an amateur.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
32) “That’s what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.” – Walt Disney
33) “A writer is simply a photographer of thoughts.” – Brandon A. Trean
34) “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Mark Twain
35) “Everything is hard before it is easy.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
36) “It doesn’t matter how slowly you go as long as you don’t stop.” - Confucius
37) “Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.” – Albert Einstein
38) “Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
39) “Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.” – Oprah Winfrey
40) “If people are doubting how far you can go, go so far that you can’t hear them anymore.” – Michele Ruiz
41) “Success isn’t overnight. It’s when every day you get a little better than before. It adds up.” – Dwayne Johnson
42) “I don’t think there’s an artist of any value who doesn’t doubt what they’re doing.” – Francis Ford Coppola
43) “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” – Scott Adams
44) “We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.” – Ernest Hemingway
45) “Very few writers know what they are doing until they’ve done it.” – Anne Lamott
I hope you have enjoyed reading 45 Motivational Quotes for Aspiring Writers. Did any of these personal pearls of wisdom resonate with you? Was there one quote in particular that seemed to jump out at you and motivate you to keep your chin up and keep going?
Perhaps you can paste the quote above your computer where you can see it every day as you sit down to write. Or put it above your list of goals or on a vision board or write it down in your own motivational journal. Maybe you can even pass along the phrase to motivate others.
The important thing is: Stay positive and keep writing! The end result will be worth it.
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