- The first draft is just you telling yourself the story. Terry Pratchett
- Do. Or do not. There is no try. Yoda
- Figure out what it is that you stand for, what message you want to share, what you want your story to be. Make sure it’s authentic and then go for it. Gaby Dalkin
- If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write. Martin Luther
- If you wait for inspiration to write you’re not a writer, you’re a waiter. Dan Poynter
- I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me. Ralph Waldo Emerson
- You can’t let praise or criticism get to you. It’s a weakness to get caught up in either one. John Wooden
- You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame. Erica Jong
- Ill-fitting grammar are like ill-fitting shoes. You can get used to it for a bit, but then one day your toes fall off and you can’t walk to the bathroom. Jasper Fforde
- A blog is only as interesting as the interest shown in others. Lee Odden
- Focus on actually treating your blog like a business. Preston Lee
- Don’t Settle: Don’t finish crappy books. If you don’t like the menu, leave the restaurant. If you’re not on the right path get off it. Chris Brogan
- I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong. Benjamin Franklin
- And one of [the things you learn as you get older] is, you really need less… My model for this is late Beethoven. He moves so strangely and quite suddenly sometimes from place to place in his music, in the late quartets. He knows where he’s going and he just doesn’t want to waste all that time getting there… One is aware of this as one gets older. You can’t waste time. Ursula K. Le Guin
- It's not the customer's job to know what they want. Steve Jobs
- Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page for each day, it helps. Then when it gets finished, you are always surprised. John Steinbeck
- Give them quality. That's the best kind of advertising. Milton Hershey
- Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we'. Mark Twain
- I’m always reinventing my blog for the better. Ryan Robinson
- There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at the typewriter and bleed. Ernest Hemingway
- How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. Henry David Thoreau
- A writer never has a vacation. For a writer life consists of either writing or thinking about writing. Eugene Ionesco
- I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent, he would be wise to develop a thick hide. Harper Lee
- Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations. Vladimir Nabokov
- Cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal. William S. Burroughs
- It is only by writing, not dreaming about it, that we develop our own style. P.D. James
- You have this grand vision—maybe you’ve even worked on it for a long time, and then you put it out, and it’s probably going to change. Chris Guillebeau
- If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don’t listen to writers talking about writing or themselves. Lillian Hellman
- I’ve long advised that bloggers seeking to make money from blogging spread their interests across multiple revenue streams so as not to put all their eggs in one basket. Darren Rowse
- It should feel genuinely good to earn income from your blog you should be driven by a healthy ambition to succeed. Steve Pavlina
- I believe a blog is a conversation. People go to blogs to read and write, not just consume. Michael Arrington
- If you want to continually grow your blog, you need to learn to blog on a consistent basis. Neil Patel
- You have to get a great headline to attract attention in your blog it’s about the lure not the rod. Michael Hyat
- I told myself that I didn’t care if I never made more than $8/hr having freedom and not being stuck in the rat race was soooo worth it. Bob Lotich
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. Richard Bach
- I generally blog between 5:30 A.M. and 7 A.M. I will from time to time add something during the day, but for the most part, blogging is an early morning activity for me. Fred Wilson
- Blogging is to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. It is, in many ways, writing out loud. Andrew Sullivan
- Your first blog posts won’t be perfect, but you just have to do it. You have to start somewhere. Shane Barker
- So the writer who breeds more words than he needs is making a chore for the reader who reads. Dr. Seuss
- You don’t have to be big. You have to be remarkable. Joe Pulizzi
Top 40 Best Inspiring Quotes for Bloggers
So the writer who breeds more words than he needs is making a chore for the reader who reads. Dr. Seuss
