“If you wish to be a writer; write!Send quote to a friendEpictetus (50-120) Greek philosopher.”

“If you wish to be a writer, write.”

“If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.”

“Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.”

“Don't seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you.”

“-Who are those people by whom you wish to be admired? Are they not these whom you are in the habit of saying that they are mad? What then? Do you wish to be admired by the mad?”

“Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.”