Inspiring quotes

These quotes inspirer me and totally describe myself better than I could do..

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

Ernest Hemingway 

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.

Roald Dahl 

And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.

J. K. Rowling 

Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love.

Ray Bradbury 

For me, writing a novel is like having a dream. Writing a novel lets me intentionally dream while I'm still awake. I can continue yesterday's dream today, something you can't normally do in everyday life.

Haruki Murakami 

The desire to write grows with writing.

Desiderius Erasmus 

Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?

Joan Didion 

Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.

E. L. Doctorow 

I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will.

Laurell K. Hamilton 

The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile.

Robert Cormier 

I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.

Tanith Lee 

When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author.

Sherman Alexie 

I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.

James A. Michener 

For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live.

Maynard James Keenan 

Indeed, learning to write may be a part of learning to read. For all I know,writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.

— Eudora Welty

Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.

— Frederick Douglass

So please, oh PLEASE, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can install, A lovely bookshelf on the wall.

— Roald Dahl

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

— Austin Phelps

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

— Victor Hugo