Getting published is really exciting, but it’s not the point of writing. The actual writing is what it’s all about - the daily joy in sitting down to a blank page and crafting something beautiful or funny or heartwrenching or even just blah (depending on the day). - Bridget McNulty

Start telling the stories that only you can tell. - Neil Gaiman

The expression ‘Those who can’t do, teach’ is a curious one, because if you look at the world, you’ll see that teachers aren’t particularly worse at doing things than anyone else, so perhaps the expression might be better worded as ‘nobody can do anything.’ - Lemony Snicket

Make him honest. I don't mean 'never fish for spare change in a pay phone honest.' I mean 'tell it like it is and own up to it' honest. Readers will forgive a character for any number of flaws if the character is honest about who he is and what he's doing. - K.M. Weiland

I learned long ago, never wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it. - George Bernard Shaw

Different authors write different ways, and have different relationships with their audiences, and those are all legitimate. - John Green

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without agreeing with it. - Aristotle

The first draft is for you, the writer; the second and subsequent drafts are for the reader. Trying to do both things at once - figuring out what we want to say, while also fashioning it for another human being to read - is the curse of writer’s block. - Karen Karbo

You fail only if you stop writing. - Ray Bradbury