You're in pretty good shape for the shape you're in. ― DR. SEUSS

Write what should not be forgotten. — Isabel Allende

Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open. — Natalie Goldberg

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

The scariest moment is always just before you start. ― Stephen King

The first draft is just you telling yourself the story. ― Terry Pratchett

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on. — Louis L’Amour

One sure window into a person’s soul is his reading list. — Mary B. W. Tabor

One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. — Jack Kerouac

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader. —Robert Frost

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. — Virginia Woolf

It is only by writing, not dreaming about it, that we develop our own style. — P.D. James

It doesn’t matter how many book ideas you have if you can’t finish writing your book. — Joe Bunting

If you wait for inspiration to write you’re not a writer, you’re a waiter. — Dan Poynter

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

If I waited for perfection, I would never write a word. — Margaret Atwood

Ideas are cheap. It’s the execution that is all important. — George R.R. Martin

I kept always two books in my pocket: one to read, one to write in. — Robert Louis Stevenson

I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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