Favorite writing quotes

I met Margaret Weiss at a gaming convention in the early 1980s. She gave me a bit of advice that she said every writer should know and take to heart.

"The number one rule of writing is this: Don't give up your day job."  -- Margaret Weiss

No truer words have ever been spoken.

Bobbie

This is the best advice I've ever read about writing:

If a writer of prose knows enough of what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an ice-berg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing.
—Ernest Hemingway in Death in the Afternoon

"If I waited for perfection...I would never write a word." ~ Margaret Atwood

My primary profession is music composition and guitar performance. And what applies to my music also applies to my writing in many instances. If perfection is the only acceptable ending, hardly a song would ever have been heard. The same goes for writing. Perfection is a nice goal but normally unattainable. Excellence, however, can be attained with hard work tenacity.

I ain't never read or wrote a perfect story, but I'm sure it's just over the next hill at the end of that rainbow. Take care. Vern

I like it!

Both quotes are great!