I have a horror of the blank page but once I'm editing, it's like a puzzle and I like puzzles.

— Charles Krauthhammer
1433

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

— William Shakespeare
1337

Genius only reveals itself when you show up enough times to get the average ideas out of the way.

— James Clear
Lessons From a Vexillonaire: Creativity, Simplicity, and the Carefully Constrained Life, JamesClear.com
1144

The most dangerous distractions are the ones you love, but that don’t love you back.

— James Clear
http://jamesclear.com/buffett-focus 10/21/14
1088

Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.

— Eleanor Roosevelt
http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/36354.html
915

Write even when you don’t want to, don’t much like what you are writing, and aren’t writing particularly well.

— Agatha Christie
890

Combine all your healthy wishes, dreams and hopes into investing in your talent and in the acquisition of knowledge and wisdom. If your art contributes to society, or to the art enthusiasts around you, then you are rewarded honestly, and more so if you make yourself useful to the world around you.

— Samuel Adoquei
How Successful Artists Study
774

You fail only if you stop writing.

— Ray Bradbury
552

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

— Arthur C Clarke
551

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

— Arthur C Clarke
550

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

— Arthur C Clarke
549

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

— Rabindranath Tagore
524

The rule which forbids ending a sentence with a preposition is the kind of nonsense up with which I will not put.

— Winston Churchill
523

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential

— Winston Churchill
522

If you are going through hell, keep going.

— Winston Churchill
521

The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented.

— Dennis Gabor
516

Vigorous writing is concise.

— William Strunk Jr.
453

There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

— W. Somerset Maugham
452

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

— Truman Capote
451

If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.

— Stephen King
450

A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.

— Ring Lardner
449

In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.

— Pliny the Elder
448

I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.

— Peter De Vries
447

Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.

— Leonard Bernstein
446

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

— Josh Billings
445