"You are one sales letter away from being rich."
~ Gary Halbert

"Reading can seriously damage your ignorance."
~ Unknown

"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."
~ Albert Einstein

"A person who is okay being alone is a powerful person."
~ Unknown

"Write even when the world is chaotic. You don't need a cigarette, silence, music, a comfortable chair, or inner peace to write. You just need ten minutes and a writing implement."
~ Cory Doctorow

"My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline. If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don't want to write, do something else. It's as simple as that."
~ Mary Garden

"If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write."
~ Marin Luther

"Writer's block is a phony, made up, b.s. excuse for not doing your work."
~ Jerry Seinfield

"The act of reading is a partnership. The author builds a house, but the reader makes it a home."
~ Jodi Picoult

"This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until it's done. It's that easy, and that hard.
~ Neil Gaiman

"Write what you want to write, worry about marketing them after they are done. You have no way of knowing what will be or is popular now or in one year or five years. When you listen to critical voice for anything, you are failing and not writing."
~ Dean Wesley Smith

"Be 'selectively ignorant.'
Ignore topics that drain your attention.
Unfollow people that drain your energy.
Abandon projects that drain your time.
Do not keep up with it all.
The more selectively ignorant you become, the more broadly knowledgable you can be."
~ James Clear

"If it matters to you, you’ll find a way."
~ Charlie Gilkey

"Doing it right is hard. Doing it over is harder."
~ James Clear

"Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom."
~ Jeanette Winterson

"Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are."
~ Mason Cooley

“The purpose of knowledge is action, not knowledge.”
~ Aristotle

“To get rich, you have to be making money while you sleep.”
~ David Bailey

"How to write: want to. Stop not writing."
~ Anne Lamott

'If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write."
~ Martin Luther

"The man who doesn't read has no advantage over the man who can't read."
~ Mark Twain

"Killer writing advice: when you run into problems with dialogue, have one character say “It’s…complicated,” have the other character nod in agreement and cut to the next scene."
~ Todd Foley

“Although my spelling is still sometimes poor, I have managed to overcome the worst of my difficulties through training myself to concentrate.”
~ Richard Branson

"If I started to wait for moments of inspiration, I would never finish a book. Inspiration for me comes from a regular effort."
~ Mario Vargas Llosa

"Don't hope for it more than you work for it."
~ Zig Ziglar

"The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow."
~ Kurt Vonnegut

"Wanting to be a writer and not wanting to be rejected is like wanting to be a boxer and not wanting to get punched."
~ David Barr Kirtley

"Give yourself wholly to the kind of book you want to write and don't try to please readers who like something different."
~ Paul Harding

"What do you wish you'd spent more time doing five years ago?"
~ Brian Tracy

"There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."
~ W Somerset Maugham

"Good writing is a delight to those who read it and a mystery to those who write it."
~ Stephen King

"I don’t have to write. But if I didn’t I wouldn’t be very happy."
~ Mitch Levenberg

“Writers don’t choose their craft; they need to write in order to face the world.”
~ Alice Hoffman

"Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original on the page."
~ Gustave Flaubert

“The English language is an arsenal of weapons. If you are going to brandish them without checking to see whether or not they are loaded, you must expect to have them explode in your face from time to time.”
~ Stephen Fry

"Students don't need a perfect teacher. Students need a happy teacher, who's gonna make them excited to come to school and grow a love for learning."
~ Richard Feynman

"The ultimate inspiration is the deadline."
~ Nolan Bushnell

“The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.”
~ Arthur Schopenhauer

"Knowledge isn't free. You have to pay attention."
~ Richard Feynman

"I want the reader to know what's going on. So there's never a mystery in my books."
~ Elmore Leonard

"The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic."
~ G.K. Chesterton

"Fight for your words. Fight for your time to write. That's how other people in your circle recognize you as a serious writer. When you let it be known that you have deadlines and goals to meet, and you make time for them, then the nonwriters around you start believing in you."
~ C Hope Clark

"Writing 101:
1. Simple, not smart
2. Active, not passive
3. Write first, edit later
4. Write like you speak
5. Appeal to 1 to appeal to many
6. Vary sentence length for rhythm
7. 80% of your time on the headline
And most importantly:
Never stop writing."
~ Kieran Drew

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
~ Maya Angelou

“To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.”
~ Aristotle

“The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.”
~ Voltaire

"One cannot think without writing."
~ Luhmann 1992,53