Here are some awesome quotes to use in your ELA classroom to inspire student writing.
"If you have a minimum of talent, but you sit at the typewriter long enough, something will emerge. All I had was this burning desire to be a writer and all these emotions." Robert Cormier
"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot." Stephen King
"Write what makes you happy." O. Henry
"Every writer I know has trouble writing." Joseph Heller
"The moment of change is the only poem." Adrienne Rich
"There's 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
"Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream." Mark Twain
"If you wait for inspiration to write, you're not a writer. You're a waiter." Dan Poynter
"You can't edit a blank page."
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