1023 – “I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters I am not. I write to explore all the things I’m afraid of.”

-Joss Whedon [Attributed]

1003 – “The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

-Sylvia Plath

942 – “A good pen can also remind us of the happiest moments in out lives, bring noble ideas into our dens, our blood and our souls. It can turn tragedy into hope and victory.”

-Nelson Mandela

589 – “Write drunk; edit sober.”

–Ernest Hemingway [Almost certainly apocryphal]

480 – “I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say.” | “How do I know what I think until I see what I say.”

–Flannery O’Connor | –E M Forster [both attributed]

344 – “Writing is one of the few careers which you essentially train yourself, the other two major ones being juggling and pickpocketing.”

–Maureen Johnson

273 – “Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don’t dare express themselves as we did.”

–C S Lewis (played by Anthony Hopkins) in William Nicholson’s Shadowlands (1993)

178 – “Cito scribendo non fit ut bene scribatur, bene scribendo fit ut cito.”

“Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.”

–Quintilian

111 – “If you wou’d not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.”

– Benjamin Franklin