Motivasi menulis

 

Quotes	Scholars
We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.	Ernest Hemingway
Write. Just do it. Then again. Then some more. And more. Do not wait for inspiration; if you do enough of it often enough, inspiration will eventually come.	Nancy Kress
The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.	Terry Pratchett
Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.	Anne Lamott
Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.	Gloria Steinem
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, melancholia, the panic fear which is inherent in a human situation.	Graham Greene
I do not over-intellectualise the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.	Tom Clancy
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.	Octavia E. Butler
Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.	Louis L’Amour
You learn to write by writing.	William Zinsser
Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any.	Orson Scott Card
Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.	Zadie Smith
A word after a word after a word is power.	Margaret Atwood
You get ideas from day dreaming. 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
Writing a novel is like building a wall brick by brick; only amateurs believe in inspiration.	Frank Yerby
Doing it all the time, whether or not we are in the mood, gives us ownership of our writing ability. It takes it out of the realm of conjuring where we stand on the rock of isolation, begging the winds for inspiration, and it makes it something as do-able as picking up a hammer and pounding a nail. Writing may be an art, but it is certainly a craft. It is a simple and workable thing that can be as steady and reliable as a chore.	Julia Cameron
I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.	Anne Frank
When asked, ‘How do you write?’ I invariably answer, ‘one word at a time’.	Stephen King
A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.	Richard Bach
Stop trying to write sentences and start trying to write stories.	James Patterson
One thing that helps is to give myself permission to write badly. I tell myself that I’m going to do my five or 10 pages no matter what, and that I can always tear them up the following morning if I want. I’ll have lost nothing—writing and tearing up five pages would leave me no further behind than if I took the day off.	Lawrence Block
I write to discover what I know.	Flannery O’Connor
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
It’s none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way.	Ernest Hemingway
What I really wanted was every kind of life, and the writer’s life seemed the most inclusive.	Susan Sontag
Life can’t defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer’s lover until death.	Edna Ferber
Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.	Ray Bradbury
Fiction can be more real to the reader than reality itself because fiction is the essence of life.	James N. Frey
If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.	Toni Morrison
Let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences.	Sylvia Plath