Sometimes as writers, we are our own obstacles. We let ourselves believe our ideas or words are insignificant. This branches into the dreaded writer's block. It happens to all of us at some point or another, but hopefully these inspiring words spark that writing fire again to burn that block away.
Here's a good article about the benefits of blogging.
"And by the way, everything in life is writable if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt." - Sylvia Plath
"You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you." - Ray Bradbury
"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say." - Anais Nin
"The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us regain our equilibrium." - Norbet Platt
"Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart." - William Wordsworth
"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible." - Vladimir Nabakov
"Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be." - Mark Twain
"What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers." - Logan Pearsall Smith
"Just start writing, even when you don't think you can. Just write." - Lisa (professor, friend, and inspiration)
"My advice for anyone wanting to write is the same advice I give myself: You have to do it a page at a time, and you have to keep doing it. You take one step to climb a mountain." - Joseph Bruchac (author)
"From time to time, from the endless flow of our mental imagery, there emerges unexpectedly something that, vague as though it may be, seems to carry the promise of a form, a meaning, and, more important, an irresistible poetic charge." - Leo Lionni (children's author and illustrator)
"The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart." - Maya Angelou
"The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things: ancient history, nineteenth-century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, flower arranging, and hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later or six months or six years down the road. But he has faith that it will happen." - Carl Ally
