I’ve been in a bit of a writing rut lately, and normally when I’m struggling, I turn to some of the best writers our world has ever seen, and read their advice. I decided to compile them into a beautiful list of wisdom that I can look at for some inspiration, and hopefully others can too. Hope you enjoy!

“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.” - Ernest Hemingway

“I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.” - Roald Dahl

“To defend what you’ve written is a sign that you are alive.” - William Zinsser

“There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.” - Doris Lessing

“Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper.” - Ray Bradbury

“Write while the heat is in you. … The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with.” - Henry David Thoreau

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

“If my doctor told me I only had six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.” - Isaac Asimov

“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.” - Anne Frank

“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.” W. Somerset Maugham

“Writing is its own reward.” - Henry Miller

“I’m just going to write because I cannot help it.” - Charlotte Bronte

“The scariest moment is always just before you start. After that, things can only get better.” Stephen King

And, finally,

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