This document contains 15 quotes from famous authors about writing. The quotes provide advice and inspiration for writing, including: focus on short and simple language; kill unnecessary adjectives; reading and writing a lot are essential skills for writers; and writing is a way to work through unresolved ideas and problems. The overall message is that to become a better writer, one must sit down and actually write, rather than just talking about writing.

1. 15 Writing Quotes
to Inspire

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

3. “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

4. language, short words and brief
sentences. That is the way to write
English―it is the modern way and the
best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff
and flowers and verbosity creep in.
When you catch an adjective, kill it.
No, I don't mean utterly, but kill
most of them―then the rest will be
valuable. They weaken when they are
close together. They give strength
when they are wide apart. An
adjective habit, or a wordy, diffuse,
flowery habit, once fastened upon a
person, is as hard to get rid of as any
other vice.”

5. “I hate writing, I love having written.”
Dorothy Parker

6. “So the writer who breeds more words
than he needs, is making a chore for
the reader who reads.”
Dr. Seuss

7. “If you don't have time to read, you don't have
the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
Stephen King

8. “If you want to be a writer, you must do two
things above all others: read a lot and write a
lot.”
Stephen King

9. “And by the way, everything in life is writable
about if you have the outgoing guts to do it,
and the imagination to improvise. The worst
enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
Sylvia Plath

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

11. “You can fix anything but a
blank page.”
Nora Roberts

12. “The most valuable of all talents is that of never
using two words when one will do.”
Thomas Jefferson

13. “Writing is really a way of thinking--not just
feeling but thinking about things that are
disparate, unresolved, mysterious,
problematic or just sweet.”
Toni Morrison

14. “If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it
and sit down and write!”
Jackie Collins

15. “I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking,
what I'm looking at, what I see and what it
means. What I want and what I fear.”
Joan Didion

16. Now get to writing…