Whether you are writing website copy, brochure copy, or your next blog post, congratulations, you’ve made the leap. The web necessitated it, and you became a writer.
In order to stand out from the vast amount of competition out there, you need to make your writing interesting. You need to tell a good story.
A blank computer screen, or a blank piece of paper can be intimidating. Here are a few writing quotes I picked up that were scattered around the Internet. Maybe they’ll help:
- “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” –Benjamin Franklin
- “You fail only if you stop writing.” –Ray Bradbury
- “If you don’t have the time to read, you don’t have the time (or tools) to write. Simple as that.” –Stephen King
- “How vain it is to sit down and write if you have not stood up to live.” –Henry David Thoreau
- “All you do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.” –Ernest Hemingway
- “Cut all the exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.” –F. Scott. Fitzgerald
- “Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.” –Jules Renard
- “The most valuable of talents is that of never using two words when one will do.” –Thomas Jefferson
- “When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in my mouth.” –Kurt Vonnegut
- “Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.” –Ray Bradbury
Matt Brennan is a Chicago-area marketing writer and copy editor. He is also the author of Write Right-Sell Now.
