Try to write something
every day.

—Roger Zelazny

Don’t compare yourself with others
except to learn from them—
compete only with yourself,
maintaining the highest standards
of excellence with yourself.

—Rosemary Daniell

Respect yourself.
Respect the craft of writing.
Respect the reader.

—Karleen Koen

I sometimes begin a drawing with no preconceived problems to solve—
with no conscious aim; but, as my mind takes in what is so produced,
a point arrives where some idea crystallizes,
and then a control and ordering begins to take place.

—Henry Moore

Finish the thing before you start revising.
If you’re working on chapter three and you discover you have to go back
and plant the butler in chapter one,
scribble a note to yourself and keep working on chapter three.
Otherwise you run the risk of having twenty versions of chapter one—
and nothing else.

—Marta Randall