“If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good”
“First and foremost, I am me. I'm real. I don't write to impress. I write to express.”
“Your writing is never as good as you hoped; but never as bad as you feared.”
“Do not write to impress others. Authors who write to impress people have difficulty remaining true to themselves. A better path is to write what pleases you and pray that there are others like you. Your first and most important reader is you. If you write a book that pleases you, at least you know one person will like it.”
“It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.”
“You'll never be as good as the next page you write, or as bad as the last one.”