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.

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...

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.

You are a writer. You just need to write.

I write to create a sky where the moon can touch the sun and not get burned.

Have while you write!

First organizing it on paper isn’t just academic, it’s an applied prerequisite for manifestation.

when people stopped having enough money to make long distance calls, or the energy and time to write, they disappeared [“The Basement,” The Awl, Feb 5, 2015].

I want to gather up all the ink cartridges in the universe, because somewhere, mixed in with all that ink, is the next great American novel. And I’d love nothing more than to drink it.

I wear the universe backwards. I imagine putting stars in my coffee, and sugar in the sky. I imagine going fishing in clouds, and watching the sun hide behind lakes. I’m too busy dancing with...

A Letter to Andre Breton, Originally Composed on a Leaf of Lettuce With an Ink-dippedCarrotOn my bed, my green comforterdraped over my knees like a lumpy turtle,I think about the Berlin Wall of years that...

A goal is a written plan.Write your dreams and visions.

You have one chance to write the story of your life. Make it a bestseller.

I write so others might contemplate things that are out of the ordinary. I write to make people feel—to cause laughter and tears and anger at injustice. I write so the world will imagine and...

So many people spend years (and money) studying to be doctors, lawyers, actors, dancers, business executives and scientists – when you’re an author, you can be any of these things, and you don’t need a...

I got words in me, Jess, fighting to find a way out. Sometimes there’s so many words and they get so crowded in my skull I think my head is gonna explode. I want to...

He would like to be capable of writing as he thinks, quickly, without effort, the word as agile and dynamic as athletes in a race, jumping over hurdles, one after the other, go, go, go,...

Always write to change society for the better.You will go, but it will live as a treasure forever.

Being goal-oriented instead of self-oriented is crucial. I know so many people who want to be writers. But let me tell you, they really don’t want to be writers. They want to have been writers....

Read as much as you can to keep the mind as supple as a baby’s bum.

We, and I think I’m speaking for many writers, don’t know what it is that sometimes comes to make our books alive. All we can do is write dutifully and day after day, every day,...

…open the access to your heart and write down what your voice is whispering…

In College average and numbers means everything to a guy.

Lost in a book is a great place to be found.

When you speak, your words echo only across the room or down the hall. but when you write, your words echo down the ages.

Gonna pretend to be a deaf mute who knows no sign one day, meet a woman, and we’ll write for the rest of our lives.

I want to write a book about shoes that’s full of footnotes.

The code of the coward is to run away. I know, because I wrote the manual.

I write for ghosts; the ghosts I can’t see but I know stick around. Some I know are good. Others I know are bad. The first bring me nostalgic comfort while the latter instill unease.

If you’re frightened of the countless number of books in the library, you’ll never write anything, until you close your eyes and hold the pen.

You do not learn how to write novels in a writing program. You learn how by leading an interesting life. Open yourself up to all experience. Let life pour through you the way light pours...

Always follow your dreams. Never give up. If you have a thought in your mind write it down. If you have a desire in your heart to write, then write. Tell your story. Make a...

Write what you love. Fill your pages with the beating of your own heart, the breath from your own lungs. Live through your characters. Let your characters live through you. Then you will love what...

Ignorance must be prosecuted when arrested. The only way for its arrest is by information and the only way for prosecution is through reading and learning of new things.

I am in awe of flowers. Not because of their colors, but because even though they have dirt in their roots, they still grow. They still bloom.

I will try to write books until I drop dead.

Book:Sharing of life and experiences with other people.This is lifetime notes for all generations.

You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you’ll never write.