Writer's Block Solutions That Really Work: Reading Quotes to Help You Write

On days I am feeling uninspired or just doing all I can to avoid the writing process, I like to read quotes from other writers about writing. Some are funny and others are actually really inspiring. My favorite part is the author's name. Sometimes I get a giggle out of a funny name or name meant just for a writer. Hope these are worth your while too!

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live."-Henry David Thoreau

Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living." - Gustave Flaubert

When I say "work" I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs."-Margaret Laurence

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness" - Georges Simenon

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia."- E.L. Doctorow

"Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind."-Catherine Drinker Bowen

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence."-Alice Walker

Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money." - Moliere

Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him out to the public." - Winston Churchill

"I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living."-Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done."-Stephen Wright

Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyze yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it" - Octavia Butler

"I have always believed that writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. The first, of course, is ransom notes..."- Phillip Dusenberry

Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring then to be original; by destroying one's first productions."-Andre Maurosis

"If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."-Benjamin Franklin

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those, who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear, which is inherent in a human condition"-Graham Greene

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."-Ernest Hemmingway
The wastebasket is a writer's best friend. ~Isaac Bashevis Singer
Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. ~William Wordsworth
Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. ~Orson Scott Card