Quotes to Motivate and Inspire Writers and Readers

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself…

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Here are some quotes I found on the internet that maybe important to you, if you are a writer or if you just love to read what is written:

• The original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate — François-René de Chateaubriand
• Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self — Cyril Connolly
• The job of the writer is to kiss no ass, no matter how big and holy and white and tempting and powerful — Ken Kesey
• He is no parasite on anything, whose work is real: a mechanic, a doctor, a builder, a tailor, a dishwasher. What, in comparison, does a writer produce? Semblances. This is a serious occupation? — Stanisław Lem
• A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people — Thomas Mann
• Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand — George Orwell
• When something can be read without effort, great effort…