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100 Quotes About Writing To Inspire Your Students


Many students say the hardest part of school is writing. That’s one of the reasons inspiring students to write can be a challenge. As you look through this list of quotes about writing, you’ll discover many of the great authors actually feel the same way. If you’re looking for a way to encourage your class to put pen to paper, check out this list of 100 relatable quotes about writing from authors, poets, and other influential figures.

Quotes About Writing by Historical Figures

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” – Benjamin Franklin

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

I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.” – Henry David Thoreau

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.” – Winston S. Churchill

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.- Quotes About Writing

“If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.” – Martin Luther 

If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.

“The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.” – Benjamin Disraeli

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.

Quotes About Writing by Authors

“I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.- Quotes About Writing

“You can make anything by writing.” – C.S. Lewis

You can make anything by writing.

“To survive, you must tell stories.” – Umberto Eco, The Island of the Day Before

To survive, you must tell stories.

“As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.” – Ernest Hemingway

As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.- Quotes About Writing

“Writers live twice.” – Natalie Goldberg

Writers live twice.

“Words are a lens to focus one’s mind.” – Ayn Rand

Words are a lens to focus one's mind.

“If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.” – Peter Handke

If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.- Quotes About Writing

“Write. Rewrite. When not writing or rewriting, read. I know of no shortcuts.” – Larry L. King

Write. Rewrite. When not writing or rewriting, read. I know of no shortcuts.

“The first sentence can’t be written until the final sentence is written.” – Joyce Carol Oates

The first sentence can’t be written until the final sentence is written.

“A book is simply the container of an idea—like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.” – Angela Carter

A book is simply the container of an idea—like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.- Quotes About Writing

 “There is no greater power on this earth than story.” – Libba Bray, The Diviners

There is no greater power on this earth than story.

“Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the readernot the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.” – E.L. Doctorow

Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader—not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.

“In good writing, words become one with things.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

In good writing, words become one with things.- Quotes About Writing

“Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.” – Ray Bradbury 

Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.

“The real story is not the plot but how the characters unfold by it.” – Vanna Bonta

The real story is not the plot but how the characters unfold by it.

“What I’ve learned about writing is that sometimes less is more, while often more is grander. And both are true.” – Richelle E. Goodrich

What I’ve learned about writing is that sometimes less is more, while often more is grander. And both are true.- Quotes About Writing

“Character is plot, plot is character.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald

Character is plot, plot is character.

“You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.” – Jodi Picoult

You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.

“If there’s a book that you want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.” – Toni Morrison

If there's a book that you want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

“I’m 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

I'm writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.- Quotes About Writing

“I get a lot of letters from people. They say, ‘I want to be a writer. What should I do?’ I tell them to stop writing to me and get on with it.” – Ruth Rendell

I get a lot of letters from people. They say, 'I want to be a writer. What should I do?' I tell them to stop writing to me and get on with it.

“The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.” – Samuel Johnson

The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.

“Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentences.” – Anne McCaffrey

Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentences.- Quotes About Writing

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.” – Stephen King

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.

“If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.” – Wally Lamb

If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.

“Words are our most inexhaustible source of magic.” – J.K. Rowling

Words are our most inexhaustible source of magic.- Quotes About Writing

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” – Anais Nin

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

“Read, read, read. Read everything—trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.” – William Faulkner

Read, read, read. Read everything—trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.

“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.” – Saul Bellow

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.- Quotes About Writing

“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’Tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.” – Mark Twain

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’Tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.” – Stephen King

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.” – Stephen King

The scariest moment is always just before you start.- Quotes About Writing

“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.” – Frank Herbert

There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.

“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.” – Louis L’Amour

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.

“After nourishment, shelter, and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.” – Philip Pullman

After nourishment, shelter, and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.- Quotes About Writing

“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.” – Ernest Hemingway

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

“There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they’ll take you.” – Beatrix Potter

There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.

“You can make anything by writing.” – C.S. Lewis

You can make anything by writing.

“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

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.- Quotes About Writing

“You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.” – Annie Proulx

You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.- Quotes About Writing

“A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.” – Caroline Gordon

A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.

“Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.” – Philip José Farmer

Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.

“The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.” – Anais Nin

The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.

“Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.” – Meg Cabot

Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either

“Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.” – Stephen King

Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.- Quotes About Writing

“Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.” – Criss Jami

Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.- Quotes About Writing

“A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.” – G.K. Chesterton

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

“There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.” – Shannon L. Alder

There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.

“My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.” – Ernest Hemingway

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.- Quotes About Writing

“Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.” – Jules Renard

Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.

“So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.” – Virginia Woolf

So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.

“All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.” – E.B. White

All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.- Quotes About Writing

“You can fix anything but a blank page.” – Nora Roberts

You can fix anything but a blank page.

“The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.” – Ernest Hemingway

The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.- Quotes About Writing

“Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely essential.” – Jessamyn West

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely essential.

“Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.” – Natalie Goldberg

Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.

“It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.” – Ernest Hemingway

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

“There is creative reading as well as creative writing.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.- Quotes About Writing

“Ideas aren’t magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.” – Lynn Abbey

Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.- Quotes About Writing

“Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.” – Lisa See

Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.

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

Write about the emotions you fear the most.

“Writing is a job, a talent, but it’s also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.” – Ann Patchett

Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.- Quotes About Writing

“If you want to be a writer, stop talking about it and sit down and write!” – Jackie Collins

If you want to be a writer, stop talking about it and sit down and write!

“A story has no beginning or end: Arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.” – Graham Greene

A story has no beginning or end: Arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.

“A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.” – Richard Bach

A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.- Quotes About Writing

“With writing, we have second chances.” – Jonathan Safran Foer

With writing, we have second chances.

“Written words can also sing.” – Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

Written words can also sing.

“You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.” – Stephen King

You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.- Quotes About Writing

“A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.” – Diane Setterfield

A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.

“A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.” – Mark Twain

A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.

“We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.” – Franz Kafka

We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes- Quotes About Writing

“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.” – Terry Pratchett

The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.

“You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.” – Truman Capote

You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.

“Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.” – Muriel Barbery

Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.- Quotes About Writing

“Don’t classify me, read me. I’m a writer, not a genre.” – Carlos Fuentes

Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.

“Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.” – Gloria Steinem

Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

Quotes About Writing by Poets

“I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.” – Robert Frost

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

“A synonym is a word you use when you can’t spell the other one.” – Baltasar Gracián

A synonym is a word you use when you can’t spell the other one.- Quotes About Writing

“If I waited for perfection, I would never write a word.” – Margaret Atwood

If I waited for perfection, I would never write a word.

“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.” – William Wordsworth

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

“A word after a word after a word is power.” – Margaret Atwood

A word after a word after a word is power.- Quotes About Writing

“I hate writing, I love having written.” – Dorothy Parker

I hate writing, I love having written.

“Some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.” – Charles Bukowski

Some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.

Quotes About Writing by Philosophers

“The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.” – Albert Camus

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

“A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.- Quotes About Writing

“All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.- Quotes About Writing

“To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.” – Aristotle

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

“It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

More Quotes About Writing

“Write your first draft with your heart. Rewrite with your head.” – Mike Rich

Write your first draft with your heart. Rewrite with your head.- Quotes About Writing

“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

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.

“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” – Pablo Picasso

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.- Quotes About Writing

“Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.” – Brenda Ueland

Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.

“You are what you write.” – Helvy Tiana Rosa

You are what you write.

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