Need some quotes for your twitter account? Here are some great quotes specifically for writers. All you have to do is click on “the bird” and send out the tweet.
[tweet_box design=”default” float=”none”]Books are a uniquely portable magic. ~Stephen King[/tweet_box]
[tweet_box design=”box_02″ float=”none”]There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. ~ Ernest Hemingway[/tweet_box]
[tweet_box design=”box_11″ float=”none”]For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.
—Catherine Drinker Bowen[/tweet_box]
[tweet_box design=”box_10″ float=”none”]Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere ~Anne Lamott[/tweet_box]
[tweet_box design=”box_09″ float=”none”]When I say work I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs. —Margaret Laurence[/tweet_box]
[tweet_box design=”box_02″ float=”none”]Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work. ~Stephen King[/tweet_box]
[tweet_box design=”box_08″ float=”none”]A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit. ~Richard Bach[/tweet_box]
[tweet_box design=”box_07″ float=”none”]When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people, not characters. A character is a caricature. —Ernest Hemingway[/tweet_box]
[tweet_box design=”box_06″ float=”none”]Being a writer means taking the leap from listening to saying, “Listen to me”. ~Jhumpa Lahiri[/tweet_box]
[tweet_box design=”box_05″ float=”none”]I think all writing is a disease. You can’t stop it. —William Carlos Williams[/tweet_box]
[tweet_box design=”box_03″ float=”none”]When all else fails, give up and go to the library. ~Stephen King[/tweet_box]
[tweet_box design=”box_01″ float=”none”]Writing is like sex; you don’t have to wait until you’re an expert to begin doing it. ~ Anonymous[/tweet_box]
[tweet_box design=”box_04″ float=”none”]If you wait for inspiration to write; you’re not a writer, you’re a waiter. ~ Dan Poynte[/tweet_box]
[tweet_box design=”box_02″ float=”none”]I always start writing with a clean piece of paper and a dirty mind. —Patrick Dennis[/tweet_box]
[tweet_box design=”box_03″ float=”none”]A book is simply the container of an idea—like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.
—Angela Carter[/tweet_box]
[tweet_box design=”box_04″ float=”none”]The road to hell is paved with adverbs. ~Stephen King[/tweet_box]
[tweet_box design=”box_05″ float=”none”]To live a creative life we must first lose the fear of being wrong. ~ Joseph Chilton Pearce[/tweet_box]
[tweet_box design=”box_06″ float=”none”]Writers live twice. —Natalie Goldberg[/tweet_box]
[tweet_box design=”box_07″ float=”none”]Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance. ~ Samuel Johnson[/tweet_box]
[tweet_box design=”box_08″ float=”none”]The difference between the almost right word and the right word is … the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning. —Mark Twain[/tweet_box]
[tweet_box design=”box_05″ float=”none”] If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that. ~Stephen King [/tweet_box]
[tweet_box design=”box_01″ float=”none”]The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to says ~Anais Nin[/tweet_box]
[tweet_box design=”box_11″ float=”none”]Don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work ~Pearl S. Buck[/tweet_box]
[tweet_box design=”box_08″ float=”none”]I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide. —Harper Lee[/tweet_box]
[tweet_box design=”box_10″ float=”none”]Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time. ~ Leonard Bernstein[/tweet_box]
[tweet_box design=”box_06″ float=”none”]The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor. ~Stephen King[/tweet_box]
[tweet_box design=”box_03″ float=”none”]To defend what you’ve written is a sign that you are alive. —William Zinsser[/tweet_box]
[tweet_box design=”box_09″ float=”none”]I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book. —Roald Dahl[/tweet_box]
[tweet_box design=”box_04″ float=”none”]Write with the complete palette of emotions. ~ Cindy Lambert[/tweet_box]
[tweet_box design=”box_08″ float=”none”]When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand. ~ Raymond Chandler[/tweet_box]
[tweet_box design=”box_07″ float=”none”]Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot of difference. ~Stephen King[/tweet_box]
[tweet_box design=”box_05″ float=”none”]Writing a novel is like heading out over the open sea in a small boat. It helps if you have a plan and a course laid out. ~ John Gardner[/tweet_box]
[tweet_box design=”box_06″ float=”none”]If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood. —Peter Handke[/tweet_box]
[tweet_box design=”box_01″ float=”none”]Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. ~William Wordsworth[/tweet_box]
[tweet_box design=”box_11″ float=”none”]To gain your own voice, you have to forget about having it heard. —Allen Ginsberg[/tweet_box]
[tweet_box design=”box_02″ float=”none”]If you can’t imagine anyone linking to what you’re about to write, don’t write it. ~ Jeff Jarvis[/tweet_box]
[tweet_box design=”box_11″ float=”none”]Suit the action to the word, the word to the action. ~ William Shakespeare[/tweet_box]
[tweet_box design=”box_10″ float=”none”]We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master. —Ernest Hemingway[/tweet_box]
[tweet_box design=”box_06″ float=”none”]Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works. —Virginia Woolf[/tweet_box]
[tweet_box design=”box_04″ float=”none”]Write about what makes you different. ~ Sandra Cisneros[/tweet_box]
[tweet_box design=”box_08″ float=”none”]Now comes the big question: What are you going to write about? ~Stephen King[/tweet_box]
[tweet_box design=”box_09″ float=”none”]You can’t think yourself out of a writing block; you have to write yourself out of a thinking block. ~ John Rogers[/tweet_box]
[tweet_box design=”box_01″ float=”none”]Never tell a story because it is true: tell it because it is a good story. ~ John Penland Mahaffy[/tweet_box]
[tweet_box design=”box_04″ float=”none”]First, find out what your hero wants. Then just follow him. ~ Ray Bradbury[/tweet_box]
[tweet_box design=”box_08″ float=”none”]There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be. —Doris Lessing[/tweet_box]
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