I found these quotes in an E-mail from Write to Done, which is a blog dedicated to writing. You can check it out here:
Anyway, onto the quotes! Hope you like!
- My ideas usually come not at my desk writing, but in the midst of living - Anais Nin
- If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot - Stephen King
- When I read something and feel so cold that no fire can warm me, I know it’s poetry - Emily Dickinson
- If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write - Martin Luther
- The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say - Anais Nin
- It is the work that matters, not the applause that follows - Robert Falcon Scott
- If you take any activity, any art, any discipline, any skill, take it and push it as far as it will go, push it beyond where it has ever been before, push it to the wildest edges of edges, then you force it into the realms of magic - Tom Robbins
- What is written without effort, is usually read without pleasure - Samuel Johnson
- The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn’t subdue you and make you feel abject. It’s stimulating loneliness - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, and my courage is reborn - Anne Frank