45 Motivational Quotes About Writing

“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”

— Pablo Picasso

“When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day's work is all I can permit myself to contemplate.”

— John Steinbeck

“Keep your head in the clouds and your hands on the keyboard.”

— Marissa Meyer

“Writer’s block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa when her head was cut off. You have to be reckless when writing. Be as crazy as your conscience allows.”

— Joseph Campbell

“Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.”

— Amit Kalantri

“If you don't write when you don't have time for it, you won't write when you do have time for it.”

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

“All worries are less with wine.”

— Amit Kalantri

“As with all other aspects of the narrative art, you will improve with practice, but practice will never make you perfect. Why should it? What fun would that be?”

— Stephen King

“Being a writer is 1% inspiration, 50% perspiration and 49% explaining you're not a millionaire like J.K.Rowling.”

— Gabrielle Tozer

“Be a worthy worker and work will come.”

— Amit Kalantri

“I prefer to be on the side of losers, the misunderstood or lonely people rather than writing about the strong and powerful.”

— Núria Añó

“Caution not spirit, let it roam wild; for in that natural state dance embraces divine frequency.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

“Music shouldn't be just a tune, it should be a touch.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Life is an affair of mystery; shared with companions of music, dance and poetry.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

“The decision is your own voice, an opinion is the echo of someone else's voice.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Don't be indifferent about any random idea that occurs to you, because each and every idea is for a particular purpose. it may not be beneficial to you, but can be what others are craving for”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“In your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Health is hearty, health is harmony, health is happiness.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Mixing old wine with new wine is stupidity, but mixing old wisdom with new wisdom is maturity.”

— Amit Kalantri

“If you can't impress them with your argument, impress them with your actions.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Through synergy of intellect, artistry and grace came into existence the blessing of a dancer.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

“Networking isn't how many people you know, it's how many people know you.”

— Amit Kalantri

“War is not just the shower of bullets and bombs from both sides, it is also the shower of blood and bones on both sides.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Where do they go, these dreams of mine? Do they live? Do they die? Do they fall? Do they fly?”

— F.K. Preston

“If thinking should precede acting, then acting must succeed thinking.”

— Amit Kalantri

“During a conversation, listening is as powerful as loving.”

— Amit Kalantri