21 Inspirational Quotes that Makes So Much Sense For a Medium Writer

This might just be what you wanted to hear

Not even ten percent of all Medium writers manage to break the 100 dollars a month barrier.

In other words, the struggling writers on this platform are a more prominent community compared to the successful ones(if you define success on Medium by money).

It can be aggravating to slog continuously on Medium and have nothing to show for it, but if you want to know how suitable Medium is for a budding writer, try some other platform.

You will rush back to Medium in no time because this is the website that makes things the easiest for writers.

So, let’s pull up our socks and write with more passion. To further cheer up your spirit, let me show you some quotes from famous writers.

These quotes might just be what you wanted to hear. They seem tailor-made for specific problems a Medium writer faces.

#1 Are you struggling to find enough topics to write? Check out what Sylvia Plath has to say about it:

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

- Sylvia Plath

#2 Trust me, the world is full of stuff to write about. You just have to spot them.

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any.” — Orson Scott.

#3 Don’t be sad that you don’t have 100 topics and ideas yet. It will come.

“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.”

― John Steinbeck

#4 One final take on ideas, this time from J.K Rowling.

Sometimes the ideas just come to me. Other times I have to sweat and almost bleed to make ideas come. It’s a mysterious process, but I hope I never find out exactly how it works. I like a mystery, as you may have noticed.” — J.K. Rowling.

#5 Now that we have the ‘ideas’ sorted out, what are you waiting for? I tell you what, you should have already started.

Start before you’re ready.”

- Steven Pressfield

#6 Just write!

“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.” — Louis L’Amour

#7 Writer or waiter?

“If you wait for inspiration to write you’re not a writer, you’re a waiter.”

― Dan Poynter

#8 Started writing or waiting for the perfect moment?

If I waited for perfection, I would never write a word.”

- Margaret Atwood

#9 Don’t feel sad that writing feels hard; it’s meant to be so.

A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.” ~Thomas Mann

#10 Make writing a routine.

Serious writers write, inspired or not. Over time they discover that routine is a better friend than inspiration.” — Ralph Keyes

#11 And this is exactly how you write.

Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.”

- Barbara Kingsolver

#12 Don’t search for rules!

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly: sometimes it’s like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

#12 While you write on Medium, keep your language simple and straightforward.

Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.” — Stephen King

#13 Nick Hornby’s words make so much sense for a Medium writer.

Anyone and everyone taking a writing class knows that the secret of good writing is to cut it back, pare it down, winnow, chop, hack, prune, and trim, remove every superfluous word, compress, compress, compress…”

- Nick Hornby

#14 If you are not finishing your articles, this could be the reason.

“I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged” ― Erica Jong

#15 Wondering if your draft looks good enough to be published?

“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.”

- Terry Pratchett

#16 This is exactly how you edit.

Write your first draft with your heart. Rewrite with your head.”

- Mike Rich

#17 Another editing advice.

“The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.”

— Thomas Jefferson

#18 You want to be a pro?

A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.” — Richard Bach

#19 You think writing is all about some inborn talent?

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous. “

- Robert Benchley

#20 Write for the right reasons.

Writing isn’t about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it’s about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well. It’s about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.” — Stephen King

#21 The three Ds

[As a writer] you have to have the three D’s: drive, discipline and desire. If you’re missing any one of those three, you can have all the talent in the world, but it’s going to be really hard to get anything done.” ~ Nora Roberts

Do you have more exciting quotes that might be useful to Medium writers? Drop them in the comments.