Author: Jennifer Sien

“Nothing splendid has been achieved except by those who dared to believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.” – Bruce Barton

“When I face the desolate impossibility of writing 500 pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day’s work is all I can permit myself to contemplate.” – John Steinbeck

“There is nothing to writing; all you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.” – Red Smith

“Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.” – Fulton John Sheen

“A book should serve as an axe for the frozen sea within us.” – Franz Kafka

“When you write from the heart, you not only light the dark path of your readers, you light your own way as well.” – Marjorie Holmes

“Have compassion for yourself when you write. There is no failure — just a big field to wander in.” – Natalie Goldberg

“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.” – Ernest Hemingway

“I wanted to tell the world just one word. Unable to do that, I became a writer.” – Stanislaw Lec

“Find a subject you care about and which in your heart you feel others should care about. It is the genuine caring, and not the games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style.” – Kurt Vonnegut