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\u201cAlmost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.\u201d \u2013 Anne Lamott<\/p>\n
\u201cBad things don\u2019t happen to writers; it\u2019s all material.\u201d \u2013 Garrison Keillor<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can fix anything but a blank page.\u201d \u2013 Nora Roberts<\/p>\n
\u201cAmateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.\u201d \u2013 Stephen King<\/p>\n
\u201cWriting well means never having to say, \u2018I guess you had to be there.’\u201d \u2013 Jef Mallett<\/p>\n
\u201cFind your niche, and then go even more niche.\u201d \u2013 Joe Pulizzi<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I sit down to write, I don\u2019t think about writing about an idea or a given message. I just try to write a story which is hard enough.\u201d \u2013 Jhumpa Lahiri<\/p>\n
\u201cDon\u2019t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.\u201d \u2013 Pearl S. Buck<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy waste a sentence saying nothing?\u201d \u2013 Seth Godin<\/p>\n
\u201cA professional writer is an amateur who didn\u2019t quit.\u201d \u2013 Richard Bach<\/p>\n
\u201cExercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are like dancers, like athletes. Without that exercise, the muscles seize up.\u201d \u2013 Jane Yolen<\/p>\n
\u201cDon\u2019t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It\u2019s the one and only thing you have to offer.\u201d \u2013 Barbara Kingsolver<\/p>\n
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