- The greater part of the world’s troubles are due to questions and grammar. Michel de Montaigne
- We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down. Kurt Vonnegut
- If people like you they will listen to you, but if they trust you they’ll do business with you. Zig Ziglar
- I believe that the memoir is the novel of the 21st century; it’s an amazing form that we haven’t even begun to tap... we’re just getting started figuring out what the rules are. Susan Cheever
- There are some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things. Jeffrey Eugenides
- When creating content, be the best answer on the internet. Andy Crestodina
- Where the Internet is about availability of information, blogging is about making information creation available to anyone. George Siemens
- The nearest I have to a rule is a Post-it on the wall in front of my desk saying ‘Faire et se taire’ from Flaubert. Which I translate for myself as ‘Shut up and get on with it.’ Helen Simpson
- Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. Marilyn Monroe
- The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. Vidal Sassoon
- Don’t focus on having a great blog. Focus on producing a blog that’s great for your readers. Brian Clark
- I would write a book, or a short story, at least three times once to understand it, the second time to improve the prose, and a third to compel it to say what it still must say. Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one's fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to reform it. Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing. Bernard Malamud
- The secret of getting ahead is getting started. Mark Twain
- Successful blogging is not about one time hits. It’s about building a loyal following over time. David Aston
- The first step in blogging is not writing them but reading them. Jeff Jarvis
- Do not be surprised when those who ignore the rules of grammar also ignore the law. After all, the law is just so much grammar. Robert Brault
- If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough. Albert Einstein
- It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen. Scott Belsky
- I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within. Gustave Flaubert
- Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. T.S. Eliot
- A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful. Maurice Sendak
- Useful & Enjoyable & Inspired = Innovative Content. Ann Handley
- Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. Babe Ruth
- I go out to my little office, where I’ve got a manuscript, and the last page I was happy with is on top. I read that, and it’s like getting on a taxiway. I’m able to go through and revise it and put myself click back into that world. Stephen King
- History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. Winston Churchill
- If your blog provides genuine value, you fully deserve to earn income from it. Steve Pavlina
- You fail only if you stop writing. Ray Bradbury
- Your ultimate consumers are your users, not search engines. Google SEO Starter Guide
- However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results. Winston Churchill
- The real thing you should focus on, if you want to break away and make blogging or writing, a cornerstone of your livelihood—is to make the medium you’re using a jumping-off point to other services you can offer. Darren Murph
- Competition-free content is about using this whole process to identify the things that your competitors are doing, the things that they’re using to market themselves, what types of content they’re creating, how long is that content, what is that content doing for its audience (is it solving a problem, is its methodology, is it actionable. Garrett Moon
- The question I ask myself almost every day is, ‘Am I doing the most important thing I could be doing?’ Mark Zuckerberg
- A man’s bookcase will tell you everything you’ll ever need to know about him. Walter Mosley
- Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. Jeanette Winterson
- I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that’s why I succeed. Michael Jordan
- It is perfectly okay to write garbage as long as you edit brilliantly. C. J. Cherryh
- Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens. Carlos Ruiz Zafón
- To gain your own voice, you have to forget about having it heard. Allen Ginsberg
- Write drunk, edit sober. Ernest Hemingway
- In the end, you’re measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish. Donald Trump
- We read to know that we are not alone. William Nicholson
- Figure out how you’re going to make money blogging first. Tim Soulo
- To ward off a feeling of failure, she joked that she could wallpaper her bathroom with rejection slips, which she chose not to see as messages to stop, but rather as tickets to the game. Anita Shreve
- When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, ‘I am going to produce a work of art.’ I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing. George Orwell
- At the end of the day, it’s your passion, your personality, that drives what you’re going to do. Anna Vital
- Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book. John Green
- Create lots of things and release them fearlessly into the world. Andrew Fiebert
- I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn. Anne Frank
- In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish. Donald Trump

In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish. Donald Trump