This document contains 10 quotes that aim to inspire writers. The quotes offer advice on developing writing skills such as editing drafts, continuing to write even when hitting obstacles, noticing ideas that come from daydreaming or boredom, writing one word at a time to make progress on long projects, making time to write every day to exercise the "writing muscle", and focusing on your own voice rather than trying to please others.

1. 10 Quotes to
Inspire Writers

2. It is perfectly okay to
write garbage -as
long as you edit
brilliantly.
- C. J. Cherryh

3. Dig until you hit rock.
Then take out that
jackhammer and go a
little deeper.
- Allison Brennan

4. You get ideas from daydreaming.
You get ideas from being bored.
You get ideas all the time. The
only difference between writers
and other people is we notice
when we’re doing it.
- Neil Gaiman

5. Writing… is like driving a
car at night. You can only
see as far as your
headlights, but you can
make the whole trip that
way.
– E.L. Doctorow

6. When asked,
“How do you
write?”
I invariably
answer, “One
word at a time.”
- Stephen King

7. The secret of
getting ahead is
getting started.
- Agatha Christie

8. You don't find
time to write.
You make
time. It's my
job.
-Nora Roberts

9. Exercise the writing muscle
every day, even if it is only a
letter, notes, a title list, a
character sketch, a journal
entry. Writers are like
dancers, like athletes.
Without that exercise, the
muscles seize up.
- Jane Yolen

10. Planning to write is
not writing. Outlining,
researching, talking to
people about what
you’re doing, none of
that is writing.
Writing is writing.
-E. L. Doctorow

11. Close the door. Write with no
one looking over your
shoulder. Don’t try to figure
out what other people want
to hear from you; figure out
what you have to say. It’s the
one and only thing you have
to offer.
-Barbara Kingsolver