Writer Goals Quotes

#1. Winter collapsed on us that year. It knelt, exhausted, and stayed.

Emily Fridlund

#2. Being passionate about something is the most beautiful characteristic you can develop.

Charlotte Eriksson

#3. If people spent more time trying to accomplish their goals, they would have less time to mind other peoples business.

William D. Writer

#4. Even before I started writing songs, that was one of my goals to be a writer, and I still have that goal. I've just gotten sidetracked.

Jason Reeves

#5. How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?

Jodi Picoult

#6. My goals for myself have changed as my career has evolved and as I've grown as a writer.

Sarah J. Maas

#7. 'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter' is without a doubt the best film we are ever likely to see on the subject - unless there is a sequel, which is unlikely, because at the end, the Lincolns are on their way to the theater.

Roger Ebert

#8. You don't ever want to go out there and not be the best. You want to be the best cop that you can. Be the best writer you can be. Everybody has their goals. Everybody has their dreams.

Bryce Harper

#9. Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.

Hunter S. Thompson

#10. Every writer should know their target. Aim for the heart ~ hit that and all which follows is sheer ecstasy.

Muse

#11. I want my life to be the greatest story.
My very existence will be the greatest poem.
Watch me burn.
Love always, Charlotte

Charlotte Eriksson

#12. When I sit down to write, I don't have any real goals except to follow one good sentence with another ... I'm not the kind of writer who has a map.

Melissa Bank

#13. Media: the tongue of a nation!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#14. I didn't go to law school to become a lawyer, per se - let's just say I was leaning in to some strong suggestions from my parents - but my nebulous goals of someday becoming a writer were just that, nebulous.

Rachel Sklar

#15. The only person stopping you from doing something is yourself, and looking for excuses all the time just gets in the way of obtaining your own goals. It's like the writer who keeps getting up and straightening the pictures in the room.

Chrissie Hynde

#16. Any writer who has difficulty in writing is probably not onto his true subject, but wasting time with false, petty goals; as soon as you connect with your true subject you will write.

Joyce Carol Oates

#17. If you're doing Plyometrics you can jump higher and run faster and your heart and lungs are going to kick the panties off of anybody else that tries to get out there without it.

Tony Horton

#18. There's only one good reason to be a writer-we can't help it! We'd all like to be rich, famous and successful, but if those are our goals, we're off on a wrong foot ... I just wanted to earn enough money so I could work at home on my writing.

Phyllis A. Whitney