- As for ‘Write what you know,’ I was regularly told this as a beginner. I think it’s a very good rule and has always obeyed it. I write about imaginary countries, alien societies on other planets, dragons, wizards, and the Napa Valley in 22002. I know these things. I know them better than anybody else possibly could, so it’s my duty to testify about them. Ursula K. Le Guin
- Focus on creating the best content first, and leave the conversion rate optimization later. Max Benz
- People don’t find content by mistake, or by accident. Every content plan needs a complementary promotion plan that combines paid, owned, and earned media. Matthew Gratt
- It’s not the best content that wins. It’s the best-promoted content. Andi Crestodina
- Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. Winston Churchill
- Good fiction’s job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. David Foster Wallace
- Get through a draft as quickly as possible. Joshua Wolf Shenk
- Don’t try to plan everything out to the very last detail. I’m a big believer in just getting it out there creating a minimal viable product or website, launching it, and getting feedback. Neil Patel
- If you can learn something new every day, you can teach something new every day. Martha Stewart
- Selling to people through social media is like going to a party, meeting somebody for the first time, and then saying, ‘Hey, do you want to buy this Tupperware?’ Pat Flynn
- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. Albert Einstein
- Blogging is not a business by itself. It is only a promotional platform. David Risley
- Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. Mark Twain
- Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. Sir Winston Churchill
- If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it. Wally Lamb
- Start doing what you want to do, you will get better with time. Harsh Agarwal
- One of the liberating things about having a blog is the total vision it allows. Masha Tupitsyn.
- If you are focused on putting good stuff out into the world, the good stuff is going to come back to you. Ruth Soukup
- Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works. Steve Jobs
- Editing might be a bloody trade, but knives aren’t the exclusive property of butchers. Surgeons use them too. Blake Morrison
- Blogging is work, but without coworkers thwarting you at every turn. Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert
- Give them quality. That’s the best kind of advertising. Milton Hershey
- Making money from blogging requires you to do only two things: drive a lot of traffic, then maximize the income from that traffic. John Chow
- Actually, the true story of a person’s life can never be written. It is beyond the power of literature. The full tale of any life would be both utterly boring and utterly unbelievable. Isaac Bashevis Singer
- Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. Annie Dillard
- To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. Herman Melville
- Fear of the unknown isn’t what you should focus on. Think more about the benefits of connecting with your audience and it’ll be worth the discomfort. Mariah Coz
- Create a link through which you can market your dream products. Create a blog or a website of your own depending on what you want to be recognized for. Share your experiences through these media. Israelmore Ayivor
- The term ‘Professional Blogger’ is no longer an oxymoron. Luke Langford
- There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favorite book. Marcel Proust
- That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong. F. Scott Fitzgerald
- One of the ways eloquent bloggers are able to generate great content and write great blogs is by habitually proofreading their works thoroughly. Jason Wolf
- An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally. Seth Godin
- No one and I really mean no one will ever read your blog just because your grammar is spot on. If good grammar is the only thing you have going for you, you’ve lost. Bill Widmer
- Making money from blogging requires you to do only two things: drive a lot of traffic, then maximize the income from that traffic. John Chow
- Starting a blog from scratch isn’t rocket science. Unless, of course, you’re starting a blog about rocket science. Kevin J. Duncan
- A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies… The man who never reads lives only one. George R.R. Martin
- You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better. Anne Lamott
- If you accept all the praise, you have to accept all the critics. Chris Brogan
- Any idea is only as valuable as its ability to solve a problem. Sally Hogshead

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works. Steve Jobs