100+ Famous Writers Quotes to Inspire & Captivate Your Audience

“You can make anything by writing.” – C.S. Lewis

“Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.” – Lewis Carroll

“The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.” – Neil Gaiman

“Creativity takes courage.” – Henri Matisse

“I write to discover what I know.” – Flannery O’Connor

“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” – Sylvia Plath

“An idea is salvation by imagination.” – Millard Fillmore

“We write to taste life twice: in the moment and in retrospection.” – Anaïs Nin

“Everything you can imagine is real.” – Pablo Picasso

“Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.” – Laurence J. Peter

“The act of writing is the act of discovering what you believe.” – David Hare

“Dance the dance of creation, not the shuffle of repetition.” – Marty Rubin

“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

“It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius

“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.” – Walter Elliot

“Fall seven times, stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb

“The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph.” – Swami Vivekananda

“Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.” – Steve Maraboli

“Resilience is knowing that you are the only one that has the power and the responsibility to pick yourself up.” – Mary Holloway

“Strength does not come from what you can do, but from overcoming what you once thought you couldn’t.” – Rikki Rogers

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’” – Mary Anne Radmacher

“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.” – Maya Angelou

“When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” – Emily Brontë

“Love makes a silent house noisy.” – Khalil Gibran

“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.” – A.A. Milne

“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” – David Viscott

“In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours.” – Maya Angelou

“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle

“We loved with a love that was strong than the love of angels.” – Edgar Allan Poe

“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” – Audrey Hepburn

“I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love.” – Gabriel García Márquez

“Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.” – Osho

“Where there is love, there is life.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu

“I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Solitude is the soil in which genius is planted.” – A.C. Benson

“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.” – Carl Jung

“No man can think clearly who does not work, and no man can work who does not think. And both require solitude.” – Pearl S. Buck

“In silence, we hear the whisper of the soul.” – Marilyn Ferguson

“All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.” – Blaise Pascal

“Sometimes the most productive thing you can do is relax and have nothing to do.” – Mark Black

“The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Solitude is where I place my chaos to rest and awaken my inner peace.” – Nikki Rowe

“Reflection is the lamp of the heart.” – Ali ibn Abi Talib

“Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.” – Jules Renard

“The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.” – Ram Dass

“The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.” – James A. Garfield

“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.” – Thomas Jefferson

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” – Maya Angelou

“One man’s truth is another man’s lie.” – Bob Dylan

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” – Aldous Huxley

“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.” – Mark Twain

“Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.” – Spencer W. Kimball

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” – Oscar Wilde

“To be truthful is to be responsible.” – Elie Wiesel

“Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.” – Mark Twain

“A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.” – Alfred Adler

“Speak the truth even if your voice shakes.” – Maggie Kuhn

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.” – Winston Churchill

“Run from what's comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live.” – Rumi

“The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” – Nelson Mandela

“Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Fear has its use, but cowardice has none.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“Feel the fear and do it anyway.” – Susan Jeffers

“Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.” – Yoda

“It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

“What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?” – Robert H. Schuller

“Fear is interesting. It makes you realistic about your limitations.” – Tom Wilkinson

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Time is the longest distance between two places.” – Tennessee Williams

“The trouble is, you think you have time.” – Buddha

“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.” – Seneca

“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.” – Leo Tolstoy

“Lost time is never found again.” – Benjamin Franklin

“Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.” – John Lennon

“The awareness of death is the beginning of wisdom.” – Socrates

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” – Oscar Wilde

“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” – Buddha

“Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.” – Spanish Proverb

“Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time’ is like saying ‘I don’t want to.’” – Lao Tzu

“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” – H.P. Lovecraft

“Knowledge is power.” – Francis Bacon

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” – Socrates

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela

“Wisdom begins in wonder.” – Socrates

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.” – Plutarch

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss

“Doubt is the origin of wisdom.” – Augustine of Hippo

“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you.” – B.B. King

“To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.” – Marilyn vos Savant

“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.” – Albert Einstein

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.” – Rudyard Kipling

“Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.” – E.L. Doctorow

“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter—'tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.” – Mark Twain

“Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader—not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.” – E.L. Doctorow

“A word after a word after a word is power.” – Margaret Atwood

“Style is the dress of thoughts.” – Samuel Johnson

“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

“Language is wine upon the lips.” – Virginia Woolf

“Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That’s why it’s so hard.” – David McCullough

“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.” – Saul Bellow

“The pen is mightier than the sword.” – Edward Bulwer-Lytton

“A blank piece of paper is God’s way of telling us how hard it is to be God.” – Sidney Sheldon

“Dream big, work hard, stay focused, and surround yourself with good people.” – Roy Bennett

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau

“All our dreams can come true—if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis

“Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.” – Bill Bradley

“Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream.” – Debby Boone

“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.” – Norman Vincent Peale

“A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he stops trying.” – Richard Nixon

“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson

“Hope is the dream of a waking man.” – Aristotle

“If you can dream it, you can do it.” – Walt Disney