“Do not beat up on yourself. Do not criticize your writing as lousy, inadequate, stupid, or any of the evil epithets that you are used to heaping on yourself. Such self-bashing is never useful. If you indulge in it, your writing doesn't stand a chance. So when your mind turns on you, turn it back, stamp it down, shut it up, and keep writing.” IfsWritingMindSelfUsedTurnsEvilChanceStupidBeatsCriticizeStampsIndulgeInadequateIndulge InEpithet Author:Gail Carson Levine
“Here is my theory on this one. If you write things down, if there is a mystery and you try and explain it, once you've written it down for permanent, in due time, it'll be proven stupid.” IfsWritingTryingWrittenMysteryStupidTheoryDuesPermanentProvenDue Time Author:Joey Santiago
“P.S. If you do not receive this, of course it must have been miscarried; therefore I beg you to write and let me know.” IfsKnowsWritingHas BeensFunnyCoursesStupidLet Me Author:Boyle Roche
“I'm never, I hope, stupid enough to believe that Twitter or blogging or any of this stuff is a substitute for actually doing the work or writing a book.” WritingBelieveBookEnoughStuffStupidSubstitutesWriting A BookBlogging Author:Neil Gaiman