“Writing without revising is the literary equivalent of waltzing gaily out of the house in your underwear.” – Patricia Fuller

“Writing without revising is the literary equivalent of waltzing gaily out of the house in your underwear.” – Patricia Fuller

“Bad decisions make the best stories.” – Kristen Lamb

“Sometimes doing nothing makes way for everything.” – Hiral Nagda

“This diamond ring doesn’t shine for me anymore.. This diamond ring doesn’t mean what it did before.” – Gary Lewis & The Playboys

“For as long as humans have been conscious, we’ve prized something precious and rare.” – Al Cook, De Beers chief executive

“No great work of art is ever finished.” – Michelangelo

“The first draft is you just telling yourself the story.” – Terry Pratchett

“Writing is an act of faith.” – E.B. White

“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” – Napoleon Hill

“If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart.” – Terry Brooks

“You can’t be farsighted if the road ahead is blurry.” – Steven Johnson

“No, life cannot be understood flat on a page. It has to be lived. . . ” – Donald Miller

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” – Edith Wharton

“No-one thinks of himself as a villain.” – Christopher Paolini’s character Oromis in his book Eldest.

“Your first chapter is not a straight horizontal line. It’s a jagged driveway leading up a dark mountainside — and the shadows are full of danger.” — Chuck Wendig

“The Writer is an Explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land.” — Rallph Waldo Emerson

“It’s not until you really throw your character into the story that you can genuinely understand who they are .” — Elijah Bynum

“If you . . . don’t put in the work, your book may remain in the muck.” — Nathan Bransford

“The two things in life you are in total control over are your attitude and your effort.” — Billy Cox