"If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"There is no procedure for learning to write. What you must do, is learn to think." - Unknown
"If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write." - Stephen King
"The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything." - John Irving
"The only way to learn to write is to write." - Peggy Teeters
"Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work." - Stephen King
"Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it." - Jesse Stuart
"I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning." - Peter DeVries
"A writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view, a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway." - Unknown
"Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long." - Leonard Bernstein
"If writers stopped writing about what happened to them, then there would be a lot of empty pages." - Elaine Liner
"In order to write about life, first you must live it!" - Ernest Hemingway
"A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?" - George Orwell
"There's no such thing as writer's block. That was invented by people in California who couldn't write." -Terry Pratchett
"A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit." - Richard Bach
"See things as they are and write about them. Don't waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know." - Real Live Preacher
"For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed." - Ernest Hemingway
"The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time." - George Bernard Shaw
"It is perfectly okay to write garbage - as long as you edit brilliantly." - C.J. Cherryh
"Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere." - Anne Lamott
"If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favour." - Edgar Rice Burroughs
"You can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page." - Jodi Picoult
"Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open." - Stephen King
"Write your first draft with your heart. Rewrite with your head." - Mike Rich
"If you want to write you must have faith in yourself. Faith enough to believe that if a thing is true about you, it is likely true about many people. And if you can have faith in your integrity and your motives, then you can write about yourself without fear." - Real Live Preacher
"My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: when you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip." - Elmore Leonard
"If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are rotten, either write things worth reading or do things worth the writing." - Benjamin Franklin
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