Quotes that you will ABSOLUTELY Love!

I have NO idea where I found these. They were tucked away in my computer in my personal files. I have LOVED them over the years. I hope you will too! They are VERY good! Sooo, get out your journal! Here goes….

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.”
–Mark Twain

“If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.”
—Benjamin Franklin

“I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.”
–E. B. White, author of Charlotte’s Web

“Men have been chained to hideous walls and other strange anchors but few have known such suffering and bitterness…as those who have been bound to pens.”
–Charles Dickens

“What is written without effort is in generally read without pleasure.”
–Samuel Johnson

“Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.”
–Albert Camus (1913-1960) writer and philosopher

“Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.”
–John Ruskin (1819 – 1900)

“My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.”
–Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.”
–Cyril Connolly (1903-1974) critic and editor

“Forget all the rules. Forget about being published. Write for yourself and celebrate writing.”
–Melinda Haynes

“Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader–not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.”
–E.L. Doctorow

“The pen is mightier than the sword…and considerably easier to write with.”
–Marty Feldman

“No one is asking, let alone demanding, that you write. The world is not waiting with bated breath for your article or book. Whether or not you get a single word on paper, the sun will rise, the earth will spin, the universe will expand. Writing is forever and always a choice — your choice.”
–Beth Mende Conny

“A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.”
–Richard Bach

“If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls. I will write always. I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you.”
–Henry Rollins

“There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.”
–William Makepeace Thackeray, novelist (1811-1863)

“The beauty of the written word is that it can be held close to the heart and read over and over again.”
–Florence Littauer

“The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into new land.”
–Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I write for the same reason I breathe — because if I didn’t, I would die.”
–Isaac Asimov

“One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time, in others’ minds.”
–Alfred Kazin

“In our family an experience was not finished, not truly experienced, unless written down or shared with another.”
–Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light.”
–Joseph Pulitzer

“Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.”
–Robert Cecil Day Lewis

“To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.”
–Charles Caleb Colton

“The pen is mightier than the sword. The case for prescriptions rather than surgery.”
–Marvin Kitman

“A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.”
–Count Leo Tolstoy

“There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can’t think what to do with the long winter evenings.”
–Quentin Crisp

“Writing is hard work and bad for the health.”
–E.B. White

“Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.”
–Gene Fowler

“If you start to revise before you’ve reached the end, you’re likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the difficult task of writing.”
–Pearl S. Buck

“All my life, I’ve been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.”
–Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post how it feels about dogs.”
–Christopher Hampton

“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
–Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.”
–Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

“The block of granite, which was an obstacle in the path of the weak, becomes a stepping stone in the path of the strong.”
–Thomas Carlyle

“It wasn’t my successes that helped me grow, but the obstacles I overcame.”
–John Kluge, billionaire

“A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.”
– Richard Bach

“You must keep sending work out, you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while your working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.”
–Isaac Asimov (1920-1992)

The greatest enemy of your creative powers is smug complacency – being satisfied with less than what you are capable of doing.”
–Nido Qubein, author, speaker

“Rejections are footprints in our journey to success. Without them, we do not move ahead.”
– Linda Windsor

“I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.”
–Sylvester Stallone

“This manuscript of yours that has just come back from another editor is a precious package. Don’t consider it rejected. Consider that you’ve addressed it ‘to the editor who can appreciate my work’ and it has simply come back stamped ‘Not at this address’. Just keep looking for the right address.”
–Barbara Kingsolver

“We keep going back, stronger, not weaker, because we will not allow rejection to beat us down. It will only strengthen our resolve. To be successful there is no other way.”
– Earl G. Graves

“Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.”
–Pat Riley

“Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence.”
–Unknown

“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
–Will Rogers

“If you do what you have always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.”
–Unknown

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems
without signing them, was often a woman.”
– Virginia Woolfe

“Remember, too, that ‘Rome was not built in a day,’ and that patience and persistence are vital qualities in the ultimate successful accomplishment of any worthwhile endeavor.”
–Joseph Pilates

“Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.”
–George Patton (1885 – 1945)
General, U.S. Army

“The days you work are the best days.”
–Georgia O’Keefe

“Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.”
–Samuel Johnson

“I learned… that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.”
–Brenda Ueland

“Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.”
–Seneca

“Minutes are worth more than money. Spend them wisely.”
–Thomas P.

“Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.”
–Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you can get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.”
–Tom Stoppard

“There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island . . . and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.”
–Walt Disney

“The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.”
–Abraham Lincoln

“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. They are engines of change, windows on the world, lighthouses erected in the sea of time.”
–Barbara W. Tuchman

“Books are never finished they are merely abandoned.”
–Oscar Wilde

“How are you going to respond when the Clock-Radio of Challenge emits the Irritating Buzz of Opportunity? Are you going to roll over and hit the Snooze Button of Complacency? Or are you going to wake up and, after performing the Bodily Functions of Preparedness, boldly grasp the Toothbrush of Tomorrow?”
–Dave Barry

“For all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: ‘It might have been’.”
–John Greenleaf Whittier

“I don’t know much about creative writing programs. But they’re not telling the truth if they don’t teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.”
–Doris Lessing

“All writers know that on some golden mornings they are touched by the want — are on intimate terms with poetry and cosmic truth. I have experienced these moments myself. Their lesson is simple: It’s a total illusion. And the danger in the illusion is that you will wait for those moments.”
–John Kenneth Galbraith

“There will be no proof that I ever was a writer.”
–Franz Kafka

“Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.”