“You have to follow your own voice. You have to be yourself when you write. In effect, you have to announce, ‘This is me, this is what I stand for, this is what you get when you read me. I’m doing the best I can—buy me or not—but this is who I am as a writer.” ~ David Morrell

“There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.” Susan B Anthony

Your job is to put words on paper. Make them the right ones later - thewritingmanifesto.org

“If you wait for inspiration to write you’re not a writer, you’re a waiter.” ~ Dan Poynter.

“Mindset separates the best from the rest.” Jo Owen

Write honestly. Write fearlessly. Write true. But above all.. WRITE. - thewritingmanifesto.org

A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.” ~Thomas Mann

“You could certainly say that I’ve never underestimated myself, there’s nothing wrong with being ambitious.” Angela Merkel

Write equally when you have no ideas as when you have a hundred - thewritingmanifesto.org

“There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.” ~ W. Somerset Maugham

“I always get asked, ‘Where do you get your confidence?’ I think people are well meaning, but it’s pretty insulting. Because what it means to me is, ‘You, Mindy Kaling, have all the trappings of a very marginalized person. You’re not skinny, you’re not white, you’re a woman. Why on earth would you feel like you’re worth anything?” Mindy Kaling

Don’t dismiss the power of caffeine and headphones to combat writer’s block - thewritingmanifesto.org

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.” ~ Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt