- Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open. Natalie Goldberg
- The world doesn’t need another 5-minute listicle. You can do better than that, and you’ll be rewarded for it if you do. Kyle Byers, Growth Badger
- Nothing can beat a good solid reputation, and blogging makes an essential investment into this process because it allows you to share your perspective with your audience in a new way. Prism Global Marketing Solutions
- Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die. Anne Lamott
- As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand. Ernest Hemingway
- Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong. Neil Gaiman
- Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading. Eudora Welty
- You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write. Annie Proulx
- Put your blog out into the world and hope that your talent will speak for itself. Diablo Cody.
- Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles. Steve Jobs
- He returned my smile with a half grin. So what do you blog about? Knitting? Puzzles? Being lonely? Jennifer L. Armentrout
- No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft. H.G. Wells
- Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own. William Hazlitt
- Too often, feeling intimidated becomes our excuse not to be awesome. Scott Stratten
- The first draft of everything is shit. Ernest Hemingway
- For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word. Catherine Drinker Bowen
- Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old-fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he’ll eventually make some kind of career for himself as a writer. Ray Bradbury
- The best time to act on this was decades ago. The second best time is now. David Brin from Writer's Write
- If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all Read a lot and write a lot. Stephen King
- If you are going through hell, keep going. Winston Churchill
- The more you know about your audience, the more chance you have at making content that resonates. Doug Kessler
- Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of job: It’s always you versus a blank sheet of paper or a blank screen and quite often the blank piece of paper wins. Neil Gaiman
- If people like you they will listen to you, but if they trust you they'll do business with you. Zig Ziglar
- There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story. Frank Herbert
- Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river. Lisa See
- The Internet has no eraser. Liz Strauss
- It should feel genuinely good to earn income from your blog you should be driven by a healthy ambition to succeed. If your blog provides genuine value, you fully deserve to earn income from it. Steve Pavlina
- Not only are bloggers suckers for the remarkable, so are the people who read blogs. Seth Godin
- The paradox is the more info you give away, the more people will buy what you have to give. Brian Clark
- My informal writing style is a political choice because I want feminism to be more accessible. Jessica Valenti
- Rejection slips, or form letters, however tactfully phrased, are lacerations of the soul, if not quite inventions of the devil but there is no way around them. Isaac Asimov
- Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard. Guy Kawasaki
- All the things I love is what my business is all about. Martha Stewart
- All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know. Ernest Hemingway
- One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. Jack Kerouac
- The only reason I’ve been able to have a successful blog and build a business around it, is because I published on it twice a week for three years. It really is all about the consistency. James Clear, Atomic Habits
- I've found the best way to revise your own work is to pretend that somebody else wrote it and then to rip the living shit out of it. Don Roff
- Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. John D. Rockefeller
- Blogging is hard because of the grind required to stay interesting and relevant. Sufia Tippu
- It can be pretty rough out there for bloggers who think small. You’ve got to think and play big if you want to make a larger footprint these days. David Risley

Rejection slips, or form letters, however tactfully phrased, are lacerations of the soul, if not quite inventions of the devil but there is no way around them. Isaac Asimov