If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are gone, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin

Good fiction writing is a matter of losing one's identity and finding a kinship with the person, place, or situation we are writing about. Otherwise, if we are aware of ourselves and don't identify with the person or situation, we risk being self-conscious writers, and there is no worse kind.
Arturo Vivante

Talent made a poor appearance. Until he married Perseverance.
Arthur Guiterman

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
Anton Chekhov

To be a successful children’s writer you will need to get in touch with your inner child, but don’t make the mistake of thinking that inner children are all sweetness and light. They can be argumentative, unreasonable, uncontrollable and highly irritating. You will need to embrace these qualities of your child as well … invoke the forces of anarchy, chaos, silliness, danger and magic.
Andy Griffiths

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
Anaïs Nin

Each writer’s process is as different as our fingerprints.

You only need to see as far ahead as your headlights show you. Take one step at a time on the road you want to go.

If you've never been rejected perhaps it's time you: A. submitted more often, or B. checked your pulse. Rejections are as much a part of a writer's life as words, and as inevitable as hunger.

Real Writers get rejected.