Writing quotes to live by

Which of these would you chose to tape to your writing spot, if you could only pick one?

Writing may need solitude to be accomplished, but it need not be a solitary pursuit. Be inspired by others. Write these bits of wisdom on post-it notes and stick them to your computer monitor. Print them out and tack them to the wall over your desk. Always remind yourself You Are Not Alone.

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
—Jack London

I write for the same reason I breathe—because if I didn't, I would die.
—Isaac Asimov

Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.
—Barbara Kingsolver

I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like a child stringing beads in kindergarten - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.
—Brenda Ueland

Being a good writer is 3% talent, 97% not being distracted by the Internet.   Hahahaha!  I love that one!
—Anonymous

One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you're maybe a little bit ashamed of your short ones.
—Stephen King

Everything that doesn't kill you, makes you stronger. And later on you can use it in some story.
—Tapani Bagge

If you’re going to be a writer, the first essential is just to write. Do not wait for an idea. Start writing something and the ideas will come. You have to turn the faucet on before the water starts to flow.
—Louis L’Amour

I think the first duty of all art, including fiction of any kind, is to entertain. That is to say, to hold interest. No matter how worthy the message of something , if it's dull, you're just not communicating.
—Poul Anderson

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent, work transforms talent into genius.  Good one!
—Anna Pavlova

When I examine myself and my methods of thought I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing knowledge.
—Albert Einstein

I saw the angel in the marble and carved to set him free.
—Michelangelo

Inspiration is the act of drawing a chair up to the writing desk.
—anonymous

To write is human, to edit is divine.
—Stephen King

Nora Roberts says ‘you can fix anything but a blank page’ and that’s absolutely true. If you spend a day writing crap, you can fix it. If you spend a day not writing, you’ve got nothing.   Awesome!
—Eve Ackerman

Either marry your work (take it seriously and do it every day) or date it (write only when you feel like it), but know which you are doing and the repercussions of both.
—unknown

I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.   Hahhahahahhaa!
—Peter De Vries

Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.
—David Sedaris, interview in Louisville Courier-Journal, June 5, 2005  I would have changed peope to your characters.

You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.
—Rosalynn Carter (1927 - )

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.
—Kurt Vonnegut

Don't explain why it works; explain how you use it.
—Steven Brust

Kingdoms need their castles, just as dragons mighty scales.
Without a quest or vision there's no magic in the tales.
I savor deeds of wonder told in prose or told in rhyme.
May I never grow too old to treasure 'once upon a time'.
—unknown