885 Quotes About Writing-advice

If you think there is no time to write now, there will never be.

Ideas either age like fine wine or rot like potatoes over time.

I’ll be blasted’, he said, ‘if I ever write another word, or try to write another word, to please Nick Greene or the Muse. Bad, good, or indifferent, I’ll write, from this day forward, to please myself

Learning to crow: If we’ve been taught to credit our success externally and debit our failures to ourselves, we’re indeed in a bind. It is important to come to an authentic assessment of our talents and strengths, speaking from our center. [p. 91]

A writer seizes every opportunity to wonder.

Something'll turn up.

Write the words on your heart.

I think you ought to write, in bed, and make use of your unhappiness. I do it. Many do. One should cook and eat one's misery. Chain it like a dog. Harness like Niagara Falls to generate light and supply voltage for electric chairs.

I'm sorry I'm not your cup of tea," said no espresso ever.