#ice

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. (…) A good novel editor is invisible. ↗

— Terri Windling

#editing #editor #inspirational #reading #writing

You never finish writing a novel, you eventually abandon it. ↗

— Tom Winton

#for-writers #inspirational #inspirational

Some people have questioned whether or not I can play a nice guy. Sometimes you can't win for losing. ↗

— Michael Chiklis

#i #i can #losing #nice #nice guy

Writing a book is a blood sport. If it doesn't hurt when you're done, you're probably doing something wrong. ↗

— Kevis Hendrickson

#writing #writing-advice #inspirational

If you can save yourself, you can save the world. ↗

— Jocelyn Romero

#inspirational #mantra #inspirational

Drinking is something people do; it's not what you are. But when it becomes what you are, you need to think about becoming something else. ↗

— Tim Cowlishaw

#alcoholism-addiction-recovery #help-self #inspirational-success-failure #inspirational

If you want to find inspiration Dare to fall, because the view down there is deep. ↗

— Vanessa

#inspirational

The destination of the journey could not be altered, only the manner in which one approached it - whether one chose to walk erect or to be dragged complaining through the dust. ↗

— Robert Harris

#destiny #inspirational #inspirational

The only way to rise above is to rise above. The only way to respond to wrong is with right. The only way to deal with injustice is to be just. ↗

— Nafisa Haji

#inspirational #justice #inspirational

Biographies are best when written chronologically. Boring people don't make for good biographies. ↗

— Deana J. Driver

#non-fiction-books #non-fiction-books-inspirational #writers-on-writing #writing #writing-advice