By Alycia Morales @AlyciaMorales
As writers, we tend to be collectors of quotes. We hoard them on Pinterest boards, in notebooks and sticky notes. We use them in our nonfiction and devotionals. And share them on social media.
Some of us turn them into memes to share with other writers. I’ve been known to print off my writing memes and hand them out as gifts at writers conferences. So, be sure to visit my post 25 Ideas for Your Memes to find more ideas on how memes can be created and shared.
Victor Hugo:
“Nothing in the world is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.”
Louis L’Amour:
“Start writing no matter what. The faucet does not flow until the water is turned on.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.:
“All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.”
What are some of your favorite writing quotes? Share them in the comments below!
Alycia Morales is a freelance editor and writer. Her writing has been in Thriving Family magazine, Splickety Love, and several compilation books. Her editing clients have won several awards for their manuscripts, including finalist in the Selah Award. She is also a conference manager and the blog editor for the Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference.
When she isn’t busy hanging out with her writing friends, her husband, and her four children, Alycia enjoys reading, watching TV, hiking, and crafting.
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The Conversation
One of mine is “I am not at all in a humor for writing; I must write on till I am,” from a Jane Austen letter to her sister, Cassandra, October 26, 1813 .
And this from J. I. Packer: “There are enough people around already who can verbalize orthodoxy on paper. What we haven’t got is writers who can join truth and wisdom about God from the Scriptures with personal communication — communication that hits the heart, that makes you realize that this writer is a person talking to other persons, that this writer is trying to search me in order to help me, and I must let him do it.”
And this excerpt from George Herbert’s poem, “Providence:
Of all the creatures both in sea and land
Onely to Man thou hast made known thy wayes,
And put the penne alone into his hand,
And made him Secretarie of thy praise.
Alycia, these are great quotes that I never heard before! My favorite is one from A.W. Tozer that has probably been over-quoted, but here goes:
“The only book that should ever be written is one that flows up from the heart, forced out by the inward pressure. When such a work has gestated within a man it is almost certain that it will be written.”