Write something simple like water, it will have the power to change you and the world.

Sing the song that only you can sing, write the book that only you can write, build the product that only you can build… live the life that only you can live.

Don’t say you’re a writer if you’re not writing. Even if you’re writing, don’t call yourself a writer. Say instead, ‘I write.’ It’s the verb that’s important, not the noun.

Before you ask for readers, write the article you wish you could read. Before you ask for the sale, create the product you wish you had. Before you need support, be the supportive friend. Before...

Only write a story that only you can write.

Lack of courage is what makes big dreams to sit in the ink of the paper instead of them running in the shoes of actions. Without courage, you remain a dreamer!

For a poet, it will be terrible if there are no women. He will not have anything to write about.

Bestseller doesn’t necessarily mean good writer. I think it takes 10,000 book sales to make the bestseller’s list, and at about 9 dollars a pop for my book, if I had an extra $90,000 dollars...

The more I write the more I learn about writing. It is easy to say what looks good or sound good on paper until you experience it for yourself.

When a day goes by and I haven’t written anything, I better have been doing something worth writing about.

A writer writes knowing that nothing else will elicit the same kind of satisfaction and personal triumph as molding the written word into a reader’s great experience.

I want to write a book like a cloud that changes as it goes.

Don’t quit. It’s very easy to quit during the first 10 years. Nobody cares whether you write or not, and it’s very hard to write when nobody cares one way or the other. You can’t...

My goal is not to have everlasting fame, it is simply to write the stories that are asking me to write them and to share them with the people that want to hear them.

Write about the beauties of life to create a beautiful society.

Your flesh is not a reflection of your soul. So when you look in the mirror, remember that your light outshines your flaws.

You must feel it from within. You must want to write the book. You must desire to write the book

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

I write as if I’ve lived a lot of things I haven’t lived.

I don’t want the words to be naked the way they are in faxes or in the computer. I want them to be covered by an envelope that you have to rip open in order...

When he got a story urge, there was nothing to do but grab a pen and write. Otherwise it was too much like getting a hard-on and not jerking off.

Write as if no one is going to read it.

Your writing should be filled with simple complexities and complex simplicities. Because that is life.

I wanted to write something that made no linear sense. None. Zero. Something that was 87% pure nonsense, 12% pure alcohol, and 3% orange juice, for a chaser. That formula is accurate, give or take...

What I like most about reading is I can read in minutes what it took the author hours to write. What I like most about writing is readers can read in minutes what it took...

I wrote you a love letter. I used invisible ink to show I was being transparent with my feelings. And also to hide my feelings.

I write to forget the days that broke me into a million nights.

I keep a diary in order to enter the wonderful secrets of my life. If I didn’t write them down, I should not probably forget all about them.

When you imagine it, feel it, then write it – creation is inevitable.

When a poet settled down to write a poem, could he foresee the lines he would write? Did his head constantly spin with riddles and rhymes and was his only job to put them down?...

Life is how you brew it. Wake up, you have a story to tell. Don’t chase vain glory, your story will tell it. You owe it to yourself to write the lines of your story...

The ink in the pen that writes success stories is “FOCUS”…

Love allows us to remember the joy, and forget the pain. That’s why I write things down, to help me remember.

I don’t write like this in order to show how clever and well read I am–though I am rather clever and well read as a matter of fact.

We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things, and we owe it to our readers to build them as best we can....

A writer writesregardless…even though…notwithstanding…despite…at any rate…anyhow…nevertheless…in the face of…undeterred by…heedless of…and because.The true writer simply continues to write.

It does not matter what you write in English nobody has understood it anyway.

Educate thyself through reading

For me, I think it was a little easier to write thinking that nobody was listening.

Write about the beauty of rainbows and the glint of reflected light that can enlighten readers’ minds.

To live, pray. To learn, read. To love, give. To listen, pay attention. But to be wise, apply all that you have acquired

I have never experienced writers block and I’ve written every day since June 1972. But I have experienced the need to get up and walk around, eat ice cream, let ideas percolate, forget the story...

Story always tells us more than the mere words, and that is why we love to write it, and to read it.

…you fantasize about me reading my poems to you – it doesn’t work that way – I write down everything later – living is not an after-thought…

She asked me could I read and write. I told her, “Of course, and I can talk too.

If I make you read, then I’ll keep quiet. If I make you think, then I’ll keep reading. If I make you smile, then I’ll keep writing.

See the world anew and write down the bones of it.

You know you are a writer when characters inside your brain keep demanding, ‘This is my story! Now tell it or I will never leave you alone!

When you write and when you read, you are living in a different world.

Sometimes I write about the forest, sometimes I write about the trees, and occasionally I’ll write about the lumberjack. Actually, the lumberjack is more the editing part, figuring what needs to be cut.