100 Quotes to Ignite Your Imagination: A Writer’s and Dreamer’s Guide"

100 Quotes to Ignite Your Imagination: A Writer’s and Dreamer’s Guide"

Writing is dreaming with words. Dreamers envision new worlds, and writers give them form. Whether you write novels, journal, blog, or simply love to dream big, these 100 quotes will inspire you to put pen to paper, chase your imagination, and keep going even when it’s hard.

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

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

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

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“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
— Stephen King

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“Writing is its own reward.”
— Henry Miller

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“Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
— Anton Chekhov

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“The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.”
— Anaïs Nin

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“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”
— Louis L’Amour

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“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
— Toni Morrison

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“To survive, you must tell stories.”
— Umberto Eco

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

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“The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.”
— Albert Camus

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

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“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
— William Wordsworth

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“The writer is by nature a dreamer—a conscious dreamer.”
— Carson McCullers

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

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“There are no rules for good writing except one: write what you care about.”
— Neil Gaiman

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“Writing is thinking on paper.”
— William Zinsser

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“Don’t wait for the muse. Work.”
— Stephen King

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“Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.”
— Marsha Norman

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“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
— Thomas Mann

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

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“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

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“The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.”
— Vladimir Nabokov

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“The desire to write grows with writing.”
— Desiderius Erasmus

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“Dreams are necessary to life.”
— Anaïs Nin

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“The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it.”
— Jules Renard

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“Writing is the painting of the voice.”
— Voltaire

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“You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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“Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts.”
— Anne Lamott

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“Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.”
— Gloria Steinem

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“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
— E.E. Cummings

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“A writer is working when he’s staring out of the window.”
— Burton Rascoe

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“Write what should not be forgotten.”
— Isabel Allende

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“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight.”
— Oscar Wilde

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

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“Writing is a job, a talent, but it’s also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.”
— Ann Patchett

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“Dreams don’t work unless you do.”
— John C. Maxwell

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“Writers live twice.”
— Natalie Goldberg

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“Keep believing in your dreams and someday they’ll come true.”
— Danielle Steel

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“Dream big. Start small. Act now.”
— Robin Sharma

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“Writers are the engineers of the soul.”
— Joseph Stalin (controversial quote, but notable for emphasis on influence)

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“Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
— Franz Kafka

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“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.”
— Terry Pratchett

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“Writers aren’t exactly people. They’re a whole bunch of people trying to be one person.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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“Dreams are the touchstones of our character.”
— Henry David Thoreau

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“Writing well means never having to say, ‘I guess you had to be there.’”
— Jeff Mallett

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“Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing.”
— Marsha Norman

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“If I waited for perfection, I would never write a word.”
— Margaret Atwood

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“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
— E.L. Doctorow

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“The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.”
— William H. Gass

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

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“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
— Anaïs Nin

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“There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they’ll take you.”
— Beatrix Potter

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“Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.”
— Sigmund Freud

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