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

“If you wish to be a writer, write.”

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

“Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents.”

“First say to yourself what you would be;and then do what you have to do.”

“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”

“Τίς εἶναι θέλεις, σαυτῷ πρῶτον εἰπέ: εἶθ' οὕτως ποίει ἃ ποιεῖς. (First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.)”