Tell your story. It is the main thing you can do to make your content stand out.|Share how you feel. There's no better way to engage your audience.|You cannot please everyone all the time. Accept this and your writing will start to flow.|Write about things that you care about. Nothing catches fire like passion, and nothing spreads faster.|Decide that today, you will tell the world something important.|Inform, inspire and interact. That's what your audience demands.|Experiment with different writing styles. That is how you find your true voice.|Have long and short posts. Even if your SEO quality score software disagrees.|When an idea strikes, WRITE.|Try to understand your readers. That's how you connect.|Before you hit the publish button, ask yourself what you want your reader to do after reading your post. Never miss an opportunity for a call to action.|Be alert to real-world problems. Write posts that solve them.|Put aside time to come up with great ideas to write about.|Quality content cannot be rushed. All good things take time.|Never neglect the edit. No one gets it right first time, all the time.|Get a life. The most interesting writers are those who have lived a little.|Ask your readers questions. Inspiring thoughts in others is the noblest profession of all. - R R Deehan|Readers want to go on a journey. Try to create a chain of posts that are more than the sum of their parts.|Build momentum to create anticipation. That is how you hook long term fans.|If you have an idea for a future post, write it down immediately. Otherwise it will vanish.|Quality is not the same as viral. People share any old stuff, but quality wins in the long term.|Write, Write, Write. Like everything else, the key to getting good at writing is practice.|If YOU do not like it, do not publish it. There is no law saying you must publish everything you write.|The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress. - Philip Roth|Inspired writing begins with a cup of coffee - R R Deehan|The road to hell is paved with adverbs. - Stephen King|Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it is the answer to everything. - Enid Bagnold|To gain your own voice, you have to forget about having it heard. - Allen Ginsberg|Cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. - William S. Burroughs|All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a work of fiction. - Steve Almond|Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. - George Orwell|It aint whatcha write, its the way thatcha write it. - Jack Kerouac|Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life. - Hunter S. Thompson|When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, I am going to produce a work of art. I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing. - George Orwell|I dont care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book. - Roald Dahl|The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps. - Robert Benchley|We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master. - Ernest Hemingway|Every secret of a writers soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works. - Virginia Woolf|Making people believe the unbelievable is no trick; its work. Belief and reader absorption come in the details: An overturned tricycle in the gutter of an abandoned neighborhood can stand for everything. - Stephen King|If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood. - Peter Handke|To defend what you have written is a sign that you are alive. - William Zinsser|If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us. - William Faulkner|For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word. - Catherine Drinker Bowen|Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players. I have 10 or so, and thats a lot. As you get older, you become more skilful at casting them. - Gore Vidal|Were past the age of heroes and hero kings. Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and its up to the writer to find ways to make them interesting. - John Updike|The greatest part of a writers time is spent in reading, in order to write, a man will turn over half a library to make one book. - Samuel Johnson|If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. Or, if proper usage gets in the way, it may have to go. I cant allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative. - Elmore Leonard|Write. Rewrite. When not writing or rewriting, read. I know of no shortcuts. - Larry L. King|Know your literary tradition, savor it, steal from it, but when you sit down to write, forget about worshiping greatness and fetishizing masterpieces. - Allegra Goodman|Im out there to clean the plate. Once they have read what Ive written on a subject, I want them to think, Thats it! I think the highest aspiration people in our trade can have is that once they have written a story, nobody will ever try it again. - Richard Ben Cramer|There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be. - Doris Lessing|Style means the right word. The rest matters little. - Jules Renard|Style is to forget all styles. - Jules Renard|I do not over-intellectualise the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story. - Tom Clancy|One thing that helps is to give myself permission to write badly. I lose nothing - writing and tearing up five pages would leave me no further behind than if I took the day off. - Lawrence Block|Dont expect the puppets of your mind to become the people of your story. If they are not realities in your own mind, there is no mysterious alchemy in ink and paper that will turn wooden figures into flesh and blood. - Leslie Gordon Barnard|Plot is people. Human emotions and desires founded on the realities of life, working at cross purposes, getting hotter and fiercer as they strike against each other until finally theres an explosion - thats Plot. - Leigh Brackett|If you wish to be a writer, write - Epictetus|There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you - Maya Angelou|If theres a book that you want to read, but it hasnt been written yet, then you must write it - Toni Morrison|Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter - Martin Luther King Jr.|We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect - Anais Nin|In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable - John Steinbeck|I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living - Anne Morrow Lindbergh|So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads - Dr. Seuss|If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then dont write, because our culture has no use for it - Anais Nin|A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends - Friedrich Nietzsche|No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader - Robert Frost|For a creative writer, possession of the truth is less important than emotional sincerity - George Orwell|Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader - Joseph Joubert|I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it - Ernest Hermingway|One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing - Ralph Waldo Emerson|Outside of a dog, a book is mans best friend. Inside of a dog its too dark to read - Groucho Marx|If you dont have time to read, you dont have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that - Stephen King|Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all - Oscar Wilde|The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader - Robert Frost|Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man - Francis Bacon|The greatest part of a writers time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book - Samuel Johnson|What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other - Guillermo Cabrera Infante|Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! you will absorb it. Then write. If its good, you will find out. If its not, throw it out of the window - William Faulkner|If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot - Stephen King|Those who mind dont matter, and those who matter dont mind - Bernard M Baruch|A bird doesnt sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song - Maya Angelou|However great a mans natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once - Jean-Jacques Rousseau|Some critics will write Maya Angelou is a natural writer - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon - Maya Angelou|A professional writer is an amateur who didnt quit - Richard Bach|The first draft of anything is shit - Ernest Hermingway|But I am learning that perfection isnt what matters. In fact, its the very thing that can destroy you if you let it - Emily Giffin|Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person - David M Burns|Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people - Ane Lamott|Perfectionism is self-abuse of the highest order - Anne Wilson Schaef|The grandest seduction of all is the myth that DOING EVERYTHING BETTER gets us where we want to be. It gets us somewhere, certainly, but not anywhere worth being - Shauna Niequist|At its root, perfectionism isnt really about a deep love of being meticulous. Its about fear. Fear of making a mistake. Fear of disappointing others. Fear of failure. Fear of success - Michael Law|Preciousness and perfectionism are the enemies of laughter, Feig says. Id go further: They can be inimical to creativity itself - Scott Brown|The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels - Simone de Beauvoir|Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you will be criticized anyway - Eleanor Roosevelt|You have enemies? Good. That means you have stood up for something, sometime in your life - Winston S. Churchill|Dont pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches - Andy Warhol|Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them - Ralph Waldo Emerson|To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing - Aristotle|The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius - Oscar Wilde|If you have no critics you will likely have no success - Malcom X|Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer - J.R.R Tolkien|If you show someone something you have written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, When youre ready - David Mitchell|If critics say your work stinks its because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you into conformity with their comfortable little standards. Standards so low that they can no longer be considered dangerous but set in place in their compartmental understandings - Jack Kerouac|Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted - Ralph Waldo Emerson|Ignore all hatred and criticism. Live for what you create, and die protecting it - Lady Gaga|Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms - George Eliot|The artist doesnt have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write dont have the time to read reviews - William Faulkner|To acquire true quantum self power you have to feel beneath no one, be immune to criticism and be fearless - The Execrable Bullshit of Deepak Chopra|I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works - Samuel Johnson|The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word crisis. One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger-but recognize the opportunity - JF Kennedy|You cant wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club - Jack London|No great man ever complains of want of opportunities - Ralph Waldo Emerson|A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty - Winston S. Churchill|We often miss opportunity because its dressed in overalls and looks like work - Thomas Edison|With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose - Wayne W. Dyer|You cant outwit fate by standing on the sidelines placing little sidebets about the outcome of life. Either you wade in and risk everything you have to play the game or you dont play at all. And if u dont play u cant win - Judith McNaught|Difficulties mastered are opportunities won - Wiston Churchill|Confidence|And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt - Sylvia Plath|The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true - John Steinbeck|A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid - William Faulkner|You wouldnt worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do - Eleanor Roosevelt|All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure - Mark Twain|When youre different, sometimes you dont see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesnt - Jodi Picoult|We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same - Carlos Castaneda|Success is most often achieved by those who dont know that failure is inevitable - Coco Chanel|As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live - Johan Wolfgang von Geothe|Because one believes in oneself, one doesnt try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesnt need others approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her - Lao Tzu|Believe in yourself and there will come a day when others will have no choice but to believe with you - Cynthia Kersey|You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. Its their mistake, not my failing - Richard P Feynman|Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy - Norman Vincent Peale|Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong - Eleanor Roosevelt|Let others determine your worth and youre already lost, because no one wants people worth more than themselves - Peter V. Brett|The only power that exists is inside ourselves…. - Anne Rice|The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other - Ernest Hermingway|The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say - Anais Nin|My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living - Anais Nin|It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it - Anais Nin|My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything - Susan Sontag|And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt - Sylvia Plath|We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down - Kurt Vonnegut|A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others - Ayn Rand|Imagination is everything. It is the preview of lifes coming attractions - Albert Einstein|Dont think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. Its self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You cant try to do things. You simply must do things - Ray Bradbury|The chief enemy of creativity is good sense - Pablo Picasso|You cant use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have - Maya Angelou|There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed - Ernest Hermingway|If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water - Ernest Hermingway|When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature - Ernest Hermingway|Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire - Napoleon Hill|I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering - Robert Frost|The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug - Mark Twain|You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write - Saul Bellow|Dont tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass - Anton Chekhov|Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers - Isaac Asimov|A professional writer is an amateur who didnt quit - Richard Bach|Writers dont retire. I will always be a writer - Andy Rooney|Volume depends precisely on the writers having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone - Susan Sontag|What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy - Salman Rushdie|Easy reading is damn hard writing - Nathaniel Hawthorne|Writing is easy. You only need to stare at a blank piece of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead - Gene Fowler|You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile - Brian Tracy