You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer.
Isaac Asimov
Category: Quotes
Anyone who wishes to become a good writer should endeavour, before he allows himself to be tempted by the more showy qualities, to be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid.
H.W. Fowler
Anyone who wishes
Your hero should never solve all his problems at any point in your story before the end. He can solve one problem, but another one must still be looming.
Gail Carson Levine
Your hero should
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Denis Waitley
Failure should be
Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it.
Kurt Vonnegut