“Writers live twice.” -Natalie Goldberg

“Write while the heat is in you. … The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole wi...

“I don’t need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.” -Ray Bradbury

“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.” -Ernest Hemingway

“Beware of advice—even this.” -Carl Sandburg

“To gain your own voice, you have to forget about having it heard.” -Allen Ginsberg

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.” -Robert Frost

“If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. Or, if proper usage gets in the way, it may have to go. I can’t allow what we learned in Englis...

We find that this applies to many aspects of life, including writing. “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will fo...

"The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer." -Friedrich Nietzsche

“To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.” -Elbert Hubbard