“To write a great book, you must first become the book.” (Naval Ravikant)
"Writing at least is a slient meditation even though you're going a hundred miles an hour." (Jack Kerouac)
"The easiest way to be discovered right now in technology and perhaps many fields is to create your own independent blog and write. There is a huge dearth in availability of good, current, first party content today. The single most important advice I can give to actually write is to write. The thing that happens which you don’t see until you write is that your content engages some of the smartest people who are lurking around the internet. And they reach out to you." (Steve Cheney)
"If people cannot write well, they cannot think well. And if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them." (George Orwell)
"When you write a first draft, you write it for yourself. When you rewrite it, you write it for everyone else." (Stephen King)
"People think you need to be inspired to write. No, you write in order to get inspired." (Paul Jarvis)
I just write what I want. I write what amuses me. It’s totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity. (J.K. Rowling)
I hated English in high school. But if they called it Thinking, then I wouldn't be as terrible of a writer as I am today. (Quoc-Anh Vu)
"The process of writing your second draft is the process of making it look like you knew what you were doing all along." (Neil Gaiman)
"Place gold coins along the path." (Roy Peter Clark)
"The difference between good writers and bad writers is good writers know when their writing is bad." (Dan Brown)
"When people tell you something's wrong or doesn't work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong." (Neil Gaiman)
"The authenticity of who you really are, as opposed to who you wish everyone thought you were, is what your audience is looking for." (C. Robert Cargill)
"For me, language is a freedom. As soon as you have found the words with which to express something, you are no longer incoherent, you are no longer trapped by your own emotions, by your own experiences; you can describe them, you can tell them, you can bring them out of yourself and give them to somebody else. That is an enormously liberating experience." (Jeanette Winterson)
“Note taking is money making.” (K”reem on Clubhouse)
Paul Graham once said: “Expect 80% of the ideas in an essay to happen after you start writing it.”
My favorite motto: Collect the dots, then connect the dots. (David Perrel)
“Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.” (George Orwell)
“My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing." (Ernest Hemingway)
“From The War of Art.
Someone once asked Somerset Maugham if he wrote on a schedule or only when struck by inspiration. ‘I write only when inspiration strikes," he replied. "Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp.’” (From a Twitter post comment)
“McCullough keeps a reminder of that story above his desk and uses it whenever he teaches writing because writers are really professional observationalists.“ (David Perrel)
“Writing a book is an adventure…. the last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.” (Winston Churchill)
“People think of writing as a creative activity and it certainly is. If you start to think of your writing process as an athlete, you treat it very, very differently. You do reps, you do sets, you think about recovery, you think about training, you think about discipline, you think about time management, you think about energy management.” (Jimmy Soni)
“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” (Anaïs Nin)
"Upfront honesty is better than long-term ignorance. [when getting feedback on one's writing].” (David Perell)
“A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.” (Thomas Mann, 1903)
“First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won’t. Habit is persistence in practice.” (Octavia E. Butler)
“All good writing is like swimming underwater and holding your breath.” (F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up, 1945)
“When you start to write everybody is wishing you luck, but when you’re going good, they try to kill you.” (Ernest Hemingway, 1934)
“Most live writers do not exist. Their fame is created by critics who always need a genius of the season, someone they understand completely and feel safe in praising, but when these fabricated geniuses are dead they will not exist. The only people for a serious writer to compete with are the dead that he knows are good.“ (Ernest Hemingway, "Monologue to the Maestro: A High Seas Letter" in By-Line: Ernest Hemingway, ed. William White - New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1967)
“You write your first draft with your heart and you re-write with your head. The first key to writing is to write, not to think.” (Sean Connery)
“You are your audience.” (The Cultural Tutor)
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” (Ernest Hemingway)
“A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.” (Richard Bach, 2011)
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