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'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.

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The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So, write and draw and build and play and dance and live only as you can. – Neil Gaiman

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You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

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You define your own life. Don't let other people write your script. — Oprah Winfrey

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Spend time with people who know how to use their days well. Just as iron sharpens iron, positive people will inspire you to be positive.

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You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream. -Frank Zappa

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In order to write about life first you must live it. – Ernest Hemingway

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Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone.

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Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.

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The way you spend Christmas is far more important than how much. – Henry David Thoreau

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