“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

“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.” Simone de Beauvoir

Trust your inner voice. It’s the better writer - thewritingmanifesto.org