13 Relatable Quotes For Writers

"I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them."

Haruki Murakami

"The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart."

Maya Angelou

"Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers."

Isaac Asimov

"Every writer I know has trouble writing."

Joseph Heller

"The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen."

Lee Iacocca

"To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music the words make."

Truman Capote

"Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul."

Anne Lamott

"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."

Benjamin Franklin

"Writers are not here to conform. We are here to challenge. We're not here to be comfortable—we're here, really, to shake things up. That's our job."

Jeanette Winterson

"Becoming a writer is a very brave thing to do."

Noël Alumit

"If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it."

Toni Morrison

"Give yourself permission to write a bad sentence."

Tananarive Due

"My biggest fear is forgetting why I fell in love with writing. My biggest dream is never allowing that to happen."

Rudy Francisco

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