Inspiring author quotes on the topic of writing

If you don't see the book you want on the shelf, then write it
"Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there'll always be better writers than you and there'll always be smarter writers than you. There will always be people who are much better at doing this or doing that -- but you are the only you." Neil Gaiman
"You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you." Ray Bradbury
A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.
"Writing in a journal reminds you of your goals and of your learning in life. It offers a place where you can hold a deliberate, thoughtful conversation with yourself." Robin S. Sharma
"If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it." Wally Lamb
"A word after a word after a word is power." Margaret Atwood
"If writing seems hard, it's because it is hard. It's one of the hardest things people do." William Zinsser
"Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, ideas, opinions." Paulo Coelho
Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can't forget; stories they carry in their bodies, waiting to be released." Natalie Goldberg
"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
"I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within." Gustave Flaubert
Writing quote: Words are a lens to focus one's mind. Ayn Rand
"If you have a dream, don't just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality." Roopleen
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you." Maya Angelou
"Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it's the answer to everything... It's the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower out of life, even if it's a cactus." Enid Bagnold
"A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise." Carlos Ruiz Zafon