Successful Writing Quotes:

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Inspirational, Success, Reading, Social Media Marketing, Either Or

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.

- Robert Benchley

source: Quoted in Reader's Digest, Sept. 1949. According to Nigel Rees, Cassell's Humorous Quotations, the following appeared in Punch in 1924: " 'It took me nearly ten years to learn that I couldn't write.' 'I suppose you gave it up then?' 'Oh, no! By that time I had a reputation established.' " The issue referred to by Rees is 6 Feb., and the cartoonist is R. Curry.

topic: Time, Work, Writing, Inspiration To Write, Successful Writing

I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: Inspirational, Success, Spiritual, Empowering Women, Strong Female

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

- Coco Chanel

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Business Life, Failure In Life

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

- Theodore Roosevelt

source: Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.4, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring, Live For Yourself, Life Going On

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

topic: Reading, Writing, Easy, Journal Writing, Inspiration To Write

There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.

- Christian Nestell Bovee

topic: Writing, Suffering, World, Successful Writing, Writers And Writing

A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.

- Richard Bach

topic: Perseverance, Writing, Quitting, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Jonathan Seagull

Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are like dancers, like athletes. Without that exercise, the muscles seize up.

- Jane Yolen

topic: Character, Writing, Athlete, Successful Writing, Writing By Writers

I have been successful probably because I have always realized that I knew nothing about writing and have merely tried to tell an interesting story entertainingly.

- Edgar Rice Burroughs

topic: Writing, Successful, Interesting, Story Writers, Interesting Stories

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

- Anton Chekhov

topic: Inspirational, Moon, Glasses, Inspiration To Write, Broken Glass

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

- Gloria Steinem

topic: Writing, Should, Feels, Liberated Woman, Successful Writing

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

- Toni Morrison

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Attitude, Joy Of Reading, Creative Writing

Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read.

- Leo Burnett

topic: Inspirational, Success, Fun, Successful Writing, Content Marketing

There are three difficulties in authorship;-to write any thing worth the publishing-to find honest men to publish it -and to get sensible men to read it. Literature has now become a game; in which the Booksellers are the Kings; The Critics the Knaves; the Public, the Pack; and the poor Author, the mere table, or the Thing played upon.

- Charles Caleb Colton

topic: Kings, Writing, Men, Successful Writing, Booksellers

Writers and musicians know well the importance of extensive reading for successful writing or extensive listening for musical composition. Likewise, visual artists... understand that successful artistic creativity depends upon extensive visual exposure.

- Paul Laseau

topic: Reading, Writing, Creativity, Successful Writing, Musical Composition

If I could go back in time and tell my younger self that eventually that I'd become very successful writing Dune books after Frank Herbert's death, I would have laughed myself silly, I think, at how strange that prospect would be.

- Kevin J. Anderson

topic: Silly, Book, Writing, Go Back In Time, Successful Writing

I don't know if there is any one secret to successful writing, but one important step is to move beyond imitation and discover what you can write that no one else can - that is, find out who you are and write that in an appropriate narrative and style.

- James Gunn

topic: Moving, Writing, Successful, Successful Writing

The secret of successful writing lies in striking the right keys on the typewriter.

- Evan Esar

topic: Lying, Writing, Successful, Successful Writing

The first and perhaps the most important requirement for a successful writing performance - and writing is a performance, like singing an aria or dancing a jig - is to understand the nature of the occasion.

- Stephen Greenblatt

topic: Writing, Successful, Dancing, Successful Writing, Aria