Writing Goals Quotes

Quotes tagged as "writing-goals" Showing 1-4 of 4
Ernest Hemingway
“I love to write. But it has never gotten any easier to do and you can't expect it to if you keep trying for something better than you can do.”
Ernest Hemingway, On Writing

André Breton
“I do not admire Flaubert, yet when I am told that by his own admission all he hoped to accomplish in in Salammbo was to 'give the impression of the color yellow' and in Madame Bovary 'to do something that would have the color of those mouldy cornices that harbor wood lice' and that he cared for nothing else, such generally extra-literary preoccupations leave me anything but indifferent.”
André Breton, Nadja

Cameron C. Taylor
“You can write and visualize goals all you want, but if you do not take action, your goals will never become a reality. To obtain a goal you have never before achieved will require tasks you have never before done.”
Cameron C. Taylor, 8 Attributes of Great Achievers

Jessamyn West
“But Lon was not only entertainment; he mixed entertainment with information like a modern novelist who not only gives you a lot of love-making, but also leaves you, when the lovers part, with a lot of information about running a hotel, avoiding sharks, or living in a kibbutz.”
Jessamyn West, The Life I Really Lived