Empowering Wisdom Quotes By Female Authors

To help combat those moments of doubt, here are some quotes from professional authors and artists who have been right where you are now.

"Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on."

"Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything really good."

"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."

"You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page"

"You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."

"If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it."

"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader."

"The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading, in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book."

"Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way."

"Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentences."

"Description begins in the writer’s imagination but should finish in the reader’s."