- Write what should not be forgotten. Isabel Allende
- Most businesses actually get zero distribution channels to work. Poor distribution not product is the number one cause of failure. Peter Thiel
- I think of us as journalists; the medium we work in is blogging. Joshua Micah Marshall
- Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. Farrah Gray
- Memoirs are the backstairs of history. George Meredith
- Here’s the only blogging tip you really need: always follow your intuition. Kelly Thoreson
- There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. Graham Greene
- Blogging is a great way to show your talents and interests to prospective employers, while adding an edge to your resume. If you blog consistently it shows your dedication, passions and creativity all of which are key attributes employers look for in job candidates. Lauren Conrad
- Look at these different content formats and find ways to get a competitive advantage from them. Rand Fishkin
- Find your best time of the day for writing and write. Don’t let anything else interfere. Afterwards it won’t matter to you that the kitchen is a mess. Esther Freud
- Thoughtful content marketers experiment with different content formats in an effort to determine which resonate with their audience. Jay Baer
- I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long. Louise Brown
- Blogging is a great way to show your talents and interests to prospective employers, while adding an edge to your resume. If you blog consistently it shows your dedication, passions and creativity – all of which are key attributes employers look for in job candidates. Lauren Conrad
- All stories have to at least try to explain some small portion of the meaning of life. Gene Weingarten
- Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. All they do is show you've been to college. Kurt Vonnegut
- The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life. Zadie Smith
- Blogging is good for your career. A well-executed blog sets you apart as an expert in your field. Penelope Trunk
- Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players. I have 10 or so, and that’s a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them. Gore Vidal
- People say, ‘What advice do you have for people who want to be writers?’ I say, they don’t really need advice, they know they want to be writers, and they’re gonna do it. Those people who know that they really want to do this and are cut out for it, they know it. R.L. Stine
- The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear. E.B. White
- Content is anything that adds value to the reader’s life. Avinash Kaughik
- Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself. Mark Twain
- Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers. Ray Bradbury
- All the promotion in the world won’t make your site popular if your content sucks. Corbett Barr
- I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance. Steve Jobs
- Successful blogging is not about one-time hits. It’s about building a loyal following over time. David Aston
- Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. Gloria Steinem
- If you think monetizing your site is wonderful, fine. If you think it’s evil, fine. But make up your mind before you seriously consider starting down this path. If you want to succeed, you must be congruent. Steve Pavlina
- Was I bitter? Absolutely. Hurt? You bet your sweet ass I was hurt. Who doesn’t feel a part of their heart break at rejection. You ask yourself every question you can think of, what, why, how come, and then your sadness turns to anger. That’s my favorite part. It drives me, feeds me, and makes one hell of a story. Jennifer Salaiz
- I’ve been writing since I was six. It is a compulsion, so I can’t really say where the desire came from; I’ve always had it. My breakthrough with the first book came through persistence, because a lot of publishers turned it down. J.K. Rowling
- Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works. Virginia Woolf
- Don’t procrastinate. If you want to blog, then blog. Fritz Chery
- I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged. Erica Jong
- A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. Thomas Mann
- I believe the term blog” means more than an online journal. Michael Arrington
- Look at your blog like a product or a brand. What’s going to make your blog different from what’s already out there? Brian Dean
- Blogging is just writing using a particularly efficient type of publishing technology. Simon Dumenco
- Nothing influences people more than a recommendation from a trusted friend. Mark Zuckerberg
- I think I am about 5 for 500 when it comes to successful ideas vs flops. Jerry Schoemaker
- Way too many bloggers think making money from blogging is like the movie Field of Dreams, where Kevin Costner’s character was told, ‘If you build it, they will come.’ You can build it, but if nobody knows about it, then they’re not coming! John Chow

Successful blogging is not about one-time hits. It’s about building a loyal following over time. David Aston