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10 Inspiring Writing Quotes

1.  “Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.”
— Natalie Goldberg

2.  “We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” 

— Anaïs Nin

3.  “If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.” 

— Toni Morrison

4.  “You don’t start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it’s good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That’s why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.”

— Octavia E. Butler

5.  “You may not always write well, but you can edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.”

— Jodi Picoult

6.  “Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.”

           — Chris Grosser

7.  “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” 

           — Benjamin Franklin

8.  “You can’t fail if you don’t quit. You can’t succeed if you don’t start.”       

-       Michael Hyatt

9.  “Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”

                    — William Wordsworth

10.  “Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.” 

— Anton Chekhov

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