Welcome to November, otherwise known to writers as National Novel Writing Month! It’s time once again to shift your writing into high gear by writing a 50,000-word novel in 30 days! Of course, it’s not so easy to take on this challenge without a fair amount of motivation to get you going, and one of my favorite sources of writing inspiration is collections of quotes by well-established writers. Over the past two years, I’ve started November by sharing NaNoWriMo motivation in the form of ten writing quotes from famous authors. Now let’s dive into another set of quotes for inspiration!

So to get you motivated for NaNoWriMo 2017, here are another ten inspirational quotes about writing from famous storytellers. Enjoy, and good luck in this year’s NaNoWriMo!

1) If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. – Stephen King

2) Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent. – Neil Gaiman

3) After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world. – Philip Pullman

4) All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know. – Ernest Hemingway

5) A word after a word after a word is power. – Margaret Atwood

6) There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they’ll take you. – Beatrix Potter

7) A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. ― Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades

8) I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I’m afraid of. – Joss Whedon

9) You can make anything by writing. – C.S. Lewis

10) Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either. – Meg Cabot

What are your thoughts on these writing quotes? Any others you’d add to the list for NaNoWriMo?