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Searching for inspirational and motivational quotes for writers?

If you’re a writer, hoping to find positive quotes, then this post is for you. These are some of my personal favourites.

I have to start with the central message of the Paula Writes blog, and associated social media accounts: Believe in yourself and your dreams.

Believe in yourself and your dreams.

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“Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.” – Gloria Steinem

“What doesn’t kill us gives us something new to write about.” – Julie Wright

“A writer is simply a photographer of thoughts.” – Brandon A. Trean

“The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.” – Gustave Flaubert

“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your own stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.” – Anne Lamott

“I write only because there is a voice within me that will not be still.” – Sylvia Plath

“Poetry is my deepest health.” – Sylvia Plath

“Poems are moments’ monuments.” – Sylvia Plath

“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” – Sylvia Plath

“You must stay drunk on writing, so reality cannot destroy you.” – Ray Bradbury

“Write hard and clear about what hurts.” – Ernest Hemingway

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” – Ernest Hemingway

“When writing a novel, a writer should create living people: people, not characters. A character is a caricature.” – Ernest Hemingway

“Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.” – Octavia E. Butler

 

Keep believing, always.

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