50 Inspirational Quotes about "Writing"

Do you aspire or dream to be a writer? Or inspired by the authors whose words were timeless masterpiece that touches a part of your soul whenever you read them? Or just curious about the creative process of every writer? Here's what some of the renowned authors has to say about "writing" and advice on how to be one:


1. All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind. --Kahlil Gibran
2. I 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
3. If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write. --Martin Luther
4. A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit. --Richard Bach
5. 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

6. The story must strike a nerve — in me. My heart should start pounding when I hear the first line in my head. I start trembling at the risk. --Susan Sontag
7. You have to finish things — that’s what you learn from, you learn by finishing things. --Neil Gaiman
8. Good fiction’s job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.--David Foster Wallace
9. Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow. --A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
10. If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster. --Isaac Isimov

11. Write while the heat is in you… The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. --Henry David Thoreau
12. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know. --Ernest Hemingway
13. Writing is the painting of the voice. --Voltaire
14. How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. --Henry David Thoreau
15. We write to taste life in the moment and in retrospect. --Anais Nin

16. There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn’t because the book is not there and worth being written – it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself. --Mark Twain
17. There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. --Maya Angelou
18. Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. --William Wordsworth
19. Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. --Anton Chekhov
20. There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at the typewriter and bleed. --Ernest Hemingway

The Alchemist - A Fable About Following Your Dreams (Book Review)

The Alchemist (O Alquimista)  is a novel by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho which was first published in 1988, originally written in Portuguese. The book follows the story of the Andalusian shepherd boy, Santiago, who after dreaming about finding treasure in Egypt decided to follow his "Personal Legend" despite odds along the way.

It has inspired many people to examine their lives from deep within if they are really living their "Personal Legend", following their dreams or just getting by with life.

The story of the first publication of the book is also an inspiration on how Paulo Coelho strived to follow his dream of making this book known and sell. Indeed, following his own Personal Legend, the book now has already sold 65 million copies, translated into 80 languages. 

Here are some of the inspiring quotes from the "The Alchemist":

10 Inspiring Quotes from the Wonder Woman Movie 2017 and How You Can Be a Superhero

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We love watching superhero movies because we are somehow thrilled with the idea of having the same superpowers they have, for example to solve our daily work problems: I mean, as simple as the ability to high jump or fly going to your office when you are already late to avoid being mobbed, lap-dashed, trampled in riding the train with the thousands of other commuters in the morning and no, of course, the super strength power of Wonder Woman that can lift tanks is not needed in this case, just the high-jump.

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Another reason is that we are hoping that a superhero will save us or save the world from evil and cruelty around the world, where the idea of using the "Lasso of Truth (Hestia) can be useful in knowing the truth behind the mind and motives of our leaders. 

50 Best Inspirational Quotes about Courage

Setbacks are part of life and surely each of one of us has somewhat experience, in differing degrees, that "bitter life moments" and "the dark valleys". It could be through our financial losses, sickness, death of loved-ones, career uncertainties, business failures, broken relationships.

Even if you are someone who is intentionally and passionately pursuing your dreams and goals, there will come a time when your knees will shake in fear and doubt. Fear in not knowing what the future holds for you in the midst of setbacks or the feeling of helplessness.

However, we should remember that struggles and failures are part of the breakthroughs in our lives and what separates the champions from losers is on how we are going to face the challenges as they come.

Be inspired by these words from people who have encountered trials, failure, doubt but choose to face up to the challenges in their lives.

1.  “To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.” - Soren Kierkegaard

2. “The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.”- R. G. Ingersoll

3.      “It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.” - Theodore Roosevelt

4.      “Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

5.      "What you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it." – Goethe

6.      “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.” - Eleanor Roosevelt

7.      “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”- Nelson Mandela

8.      “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.”- Walt Disney

9.      “He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.”-Muhammad Ali

10.  “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”- E. E. Cummings

11.  “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”- Winston Churchill

12.  “Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.”- Rabindranath Tagore

13.  “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”- T. S. Eliot

50 Best Inspirational Quotes about Taking Action and Hustling

Feeling frustrated that you haven't reached your goals even with complete, detailed planning?

Planning is an important part of achieving our goals (no question about it - or we are just going to hit the air for nothing) but we should not forget that it is not only the factor....most often, our INACTION causes many of our goals/aspirations/ideas to fail or not even given the fighting chance to start with. Sometimes we try at the start but we stop at the slightest difficulty.

Here are some of inspirational quotes that can remind us about the importance of taking action and hustling and  ignite us to TAKE ACTION NOW!

1. “Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

2. “Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.’ – Stephen King

3. “Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.”-- Peter Marshall

4. “The path to success is to take massive, determined action.” - Tony Robbins

5. "The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It'd as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer." - Atari founder Nolan Bushnell

6. “Have a bias for action.” – Bo Sanchez

7. “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” -- Zig Ziglar

8. "The secret of getting ahead is starting. The secret of getting started is breaking your tasks into smaller manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one." - Mark Twain

9. “An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.” - Lao Tzu

10. “Vision is not enough, it must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.” - Vaclav Havel