The document provides a collection of motivational quotes from famous authors about writing. Some of the quotes encourage writing daily ("writing is like driving at night in the fog"), discovering your own beliefs through writing, and not being discouraged from reality ("stay drunk on writing"). Overall, the quotes aim to inspire and provide wisdom to aspiring writers.

1. Motivational Quotes
for Authorsby Authors23

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

3. “Either write something
worth reading or do
something worth
writing.”
Benjamin Franklin

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

5. “Writing is like driving at night
in the fog. You can only see as far
as your headlights, but you can
make the whole trip that way.”
E. L. Doctorow

6. “Substitute 'damn' every time
you're inclined to write 'very';
your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should
be.”
Mark Twain

7. “All good writing is
swimming under water
and holding your
breath.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald

8. “The most important thing is to
read as much as you can, like I
did. It will give you an
understanding of what makes
good writing and it will enlarge
your vocabulary.”
J. K. Rowling

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

10. “Easy reading is damn
hard writing.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne

11. “To me, the greatest pleasure of
writing is not what it's about, but
the inner music that words
make.”
Truman Capote

12. “Listen to many, speak
to a few.”
William Shakespeare

13. “I've learned that people will
forget what you said, people will
forget what you did, but people
will never forget how you made
them feel.”
Maya Angelou

14. “Fantasy is a necessary
ingredient in living, it's a way of
looking at life through the wrong
end of a telescope, and that
enables you to laugh at life's
realities”
Dr. Seuss

15. “Do not go where the path
may lead, go instead
where there is no path
and leave a trail.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

16. “I made a decision to
write for my readers,
not to try to find more
readers for my writing.”
Seth Godin

17. “If you really want to
know yourself, start by
writing a book.”
Shereen El Feki

18. “You cannot hope to sweep
someone else away by the force
of your writing until it has been
done to you.”
Stephen King

19. “You fail only if you stop
writing.”
Ray Bradbury

20. “My ideas usually come
not at my desk writing
but in the midst of
living.”
Anais Nin

21. “Good writing is like a
windowpane.”
George Orwell

22. “Most of us have two lives: the
life we live, and the unlived life
within us. Between the two
stands Resistance.”
Steven Pressfield

23. “There's no such thing as
perfect writing, just like
there's no such thing as
perfect despair.”
Haruki Murakami

24. "A writer's job is to give
us moments that last a
lifetime."
Robert McKee

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