inspirational

      
                                    

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.

Challenge yourself with something you know you could never do, and what you’ll find is that you can overcome anything.

A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.

If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

A real book is not one that’s read, but one that reads us.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.

All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a work of fiction.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

I really think that if there’s any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, it’s self-consciousness.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does.

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.

A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.

To live a creative life we must first lose the fear of being wrong.

Instead of following the rules without regard for whether they’re making our writing effective or not, we often need to question the rules. To write with style, we need at times to break the rules.

Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.

If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.

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