“The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.”
~ Marge Piercy

"The key to business success is marketing, and the best strategy for marketing is to understand WHY customers want their problem solved, and how you are uniquely positioned to solve it."
~ T Harv Eker

"The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, and all the sweet serenity of books"
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"It takes a lot of time and effort to get good enough at writing to make books that are fun to read, and you need to accept that."
~ Andy Weir

"You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence."
~ Octavia E. Butler

"The fact is, I don't know where my ideas come from. Nor does any writer. The only real answer is to drink way too much coffee and buy yourself a desk that doesn't collapse when you beat your head against it."
~ Douglas Adams

"Traditional marketing talks at people. Content marketing talks with them."
~ Doug Kessler

"When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes."
~ Erasmus

"For the right readers, your vision blooms off the page and is absorbed into their minds like smoke."
~ Mary Gaitskill

"I don't think all writers are sad, she said. I think it's the other way around — all sad people write."
~ Lang Leav, Love & Misadventure

"Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts."
~ Anne Lamott

"Some people think that life is the thing; but I prefer reading."
~ Logan PearsallSmith

"Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time."
~ Jim Rohn

"The common denominator for success is work."
~ John D Rockefeller

"Most people need less done well, not more done poorly."
~ Brian Christiansen

"Where FOCUS goes, energy flows. Remember, what we FEEL is a result of what we’re choosing to FOCUS on."
~ Tony Robbins

“Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try.”
~ Dr. Seuss

"Sometimes our stop-doing list needs to be bigger than our to-do list."
~ Patti Digh

"Perhaps some detours aren't detours at all. Perhaps they are actually the path."
~ Katherine Wolf

"It doesn't matter how slow you go, as long as you don't stop."
~ Confucius

"Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there."
~ Zig Ziglar

"I’ve written over 70 books over my 40-year career, and I can tell you that as much as we would like them to, books don’t write themselves."
~ Brian Tracy

"We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is that discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons."
~ Jim Rohn

"If you don't have time for what matters, stop doing things that don't."
~ Courtney Carver

“Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that’s easy. What’s hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.”
~ Charles Mingus

“Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.”
~ Ray Bradbury

“Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.”
~ Voltaire

“Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.”
– Donatella Versace

“Your job is to make sure the muse knows where you're going to be every day from nine 'til noon, or seven 'til three. If he does know, I assure you that sooner or later he'll start showing up.”
~ Stephen King

“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things.”
~ Steve Jobs

“Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.”
~ Cecil B. DeMille

“Creativity is contagious, pass it on.”
~ Albert Einstein

“You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not’?”
~ George Bernard Shaw

"Don't give up, the beginning is always the hardest."
~ Anonymous

"You are what you do, not what you say you'll do."
~ Carl Jung

"You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines."
~ Beeple

"As a screenwriter, you need an enormous amount of time alone. Writing is ninty percent procrastination."
~ Phoebe Waller-Bridge

"You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine."
~ John C Maxwell

"Don't get it right, get it written. And then worry about getting it right."
~ Tony Grounds

"The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe."
~ Gustave Flaubert

"If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read."
~ Giacomo Casanova

"Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work."
~ Bette Davis

"The best use of imagination is creativity. The worst use of imagination is anxiety."
~ Deepak Chopra

"The twin killers of success are impatience and greed."
~ Jim Rohn

"My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I’m not selling bread, I’m selling yeast."
~ Miguel De Unamuno

“Don’t think what’s the cheapest way to do it or what’s the fastest way to do it, think ‘what’s the most amazing way to do it.’”
~ Richard Branson

"Writing is dreaming with your eyes open – and your heart on fire."
~ Don Roff

"I kept always two books in my pocket: one to read, one to write in."
~ Robert Louis Stevenson

"Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way."
~ Ray Bradbury

"Your imagination, my dear fellow, is worth more than you imagine."
~ Louis Aragon

"When you come home from the office, it’s time to get to work and not drown yourself in booze and Netflix."
~ Gary Vaynerchuk

“It’s not about the number of hours you practice, it’s about the number of hours your mind is present during the practice.”
~ Kobe Bryant