Advice Quotes
When it's a matter of not-do, I reckon a man can trust himself for advice. But when it comes to a matter of doing, I reckon a fellow had better listen to all the advice he can get.
The fulfilling life, the distinctive life, the relevant life is an achievement. To do whatever you do for no reason other than you love it and believe in its importance.
Don't live your life like a movie. Always thinkin you could've been something. Don't live your life for me or for anyone. You live your life as if you're one.
Of course she no longer excites him. She no longer works overtime to maintain a dumpster fire.
We have to walk by faith to possess all that is duly ours.
Writing is more than just a method to tell stories. It’s a way to find healing, and to healing others.
When your novel first peeks its head into the world, it will look pretty much like every newborn: blotchy, hairless, and utterly confused.
My job as a writer is simple. Write a book I’m proud of, and present it as a gift to the world. Some will love it.Some will hate it.That’s the nature of art.
I'm often dismayed by the sludge I see appearing on my screen if I approach writing as a task--the day's work--and not with some enjoyment.
The writer, his eye on the finish line, never gave enough thought to how to run the race.
...being "rather unique" is no more possible than being rather pregnant.
The best writers I've read possess oodles of self-doubt, yet claw their way up with each work and remain humble. Boastful ones, not so much.
Work on your craft, whatever your medium. Determination is your illusion headway toward reality.
There is no such thing as an 'unemployed writer', only an unemployed mind
If you do not want to be forgotten as soon as you are dead...be read, or try coming back and pull the feet of those who are still alive instead!
The most important step in the whole process was to just sit down and do it. My hobby has become a second career. Who knew?-Jamie Beck, Romance Novelist
..here's the editor's prescription, writer: 1000 words daily until next checkup.
When I reach for my pen, nothing is out of reach.
Replace your old books with the book you've always wanted to write.
Does rejection ever get any easier? Only if we decide not to invest emotion in the dismissal…
My ideas are a shapeless mass that my writing molds into beauty.
Never be afraid to write what you believe. If the message speaks the truth, others will fear your words for you.
Every word I write is another stroke that takes me to the shore of a completed book.
Replace your old books with the books you’ve always wanted to write.
Every word I write is a seed that I may nurture into a small, beautiful poem or a tall, soaring tree.
Your first written sentence is the foundation of all of your dreams.
Folding the laundry, completing another project at work, or watching television for the next hour doesn’t build your writing muscles. It only leaves them flabby.
By writing, we partake in something greater than ourselves. Pick up pen and paper or take a seat at your computer today and create something of beauty.
I know it's difficult in the beginning. But, listen. If you have the impulse to write, do yourself a favor, do the world a favor, and write.
Let life be the foundation. Be brave. Wander deep inside yourself to the little room no one knows about. Fling the door wide open and write.
...people quote proverbs without realizing they're really in awe of the authority of their truth and the power of their expression...
...how many writers still dare compare a woman to Nature, like Campion? - there is a garden in her face - how lovely...
...a writer without authority? Impossible. as Kenneth Burke says, creation implies authority in the sense of originator....
Upon the one thing every writer absolutely must have, and that is intellectual curiosity.
My hope fuels my determination to overcome any difficulty.
Sometimes an outside perspective is the clearer perspective.
I think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can be wrong about their own books, they can often learn about their own books
And I learned that it's a bad idea to curse if you're in trouble, but a good idea to sing, if you can.
Minding his own business had been his motto living in a strange foreign country with a world-recognized social issue of failing morals.
...you do violence with your words if you force them - art is given - the words received, moment by moment from unseen hands - call it a Muse ...
...language always occurs in a context - you can speak Elizabethan words, but to speak the language you have to put on the mindset...
A sensitive person must find a sensitive life partner otherwise a raw life partner would become a puzzle for his/her entire life
Keep working. Keep trying. Keep believing. You still might not make it, but at least you gave it your best shot. If you don’t have calluses on your soul, this isn’t for you. Take up knitting instead.