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

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

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It ain’t whatcha write, it’s the way atcha write it. - Jack Kerouac

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

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Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

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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

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The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run

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You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

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