Guidelines Quote by Jo Linsdell

“Trying to achieve an error-free manuscript is almost like trying to fly to the moon on a paper airplane.”

— Jon Michael Riley

“No matter what level of success, there is no such thing as a secure writer”

— Michael Lennick

“Writing a book and not publishing it, is like building a boat and never sailing it - UNTHINKABLE!”

— Tony Jones

A writer who isn't writing is asking for trouble.

— Walter Kirn

“There is no ceremony, no initiation ritual, no secret hand-shake. All you need to be a writer is to write.”

— M. Kirin

“To be a writer, you must write. To be a published writer you must finish what you write and then get what you've written…

— George H. Scithers

Writing is finally a series of permissions you give yourself to be expressive in certain ways. To leap. To fly. To fail.

— Susan Sontag

“Writing may be a solitary endeavor, but publishing is not.”

— Natasha Yim

“Being a writer all boils down to this: It's you, in a chair, staring at a page. And you're either going to stay in…

— Alessandra Torre

I have always felt that the first duty of a writer was to ascend - to make flights, carrying others along if you can…

— E. B. White

“If you wish to be a writer– then write, and don’t allow anyone to tell you that you’re on the ‘wrong’ path. You know…

— M. Kirin

“It's been said of writers that if we don't have to write, we ought not to.”

— ChiLibris