Okay, so inspirational quotes are cheesy and a bit silly. Maybe "real" writers like Hemingway or Dickens did not need a painted canvas with the saying, "Live Free and Be Happy," written in cursive in order to craft their stories. Maybe this is completely shallow and amateur of me.
Nevertheless, I believe that all writers need a quick note of encouragement every now and then in order to kick-start their projects. Of course, I'm no Hemingway or Dickens, I'm just someone who likes to paint clichéd quotes on canvases and sometimes form sentences into roundabout paragraphs.
No matter who you are, here are some words from amazing writers that could help you sit down and start your own words.
1. "You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say." - F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. "Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now." - Ernest Hemingway
3. "If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all." - Anne Tyler
4. "Writing is something you do alone. It’s a profession for introverts who wanna tell you a story but don’t wanna make eye contact while telling it." - John Green
5. "There's no such thing as writer's block. That was invented by people in California who couldn't write." - Terry Pratchett
6. "If I waited for perfection, I would never write a word." - Margaret Atwood
7. "Ink, a drug." - Vladimir Nabokov
8. "The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible." - Vladimir Nabokov (Again, because he is amazing.)
9. "I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon, I put it back again." - Oscar Wilde
10. "I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head." - John Updike
11. "To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature." - William Shakespeare
12. "No iron can stab the heart with such force as a period put just in the right place." - John Updike
13. And probably one of the best, albeit a little ironic, quotes I found: "If you're waiting for inspiration, you're not a writer, you're a waiter." - Don Poynter
