Top 26 Writing Mindset Quotes
#1. I think because I have great difficulty saying the word, 'no,' almost every day's a different adventure.
Richard Branson
#2. Every now and then I'll get seduced by the idea of money, and I'll take a stab at that ... and I fall flat on my ass. I've never written a lasting song with that mindset. It doesn't work.
Rodney Crowell
#3. I like writing multiple stories at once. It's fun to change my mindset and get transformed into a different story when I feel like it.
B.A. Gabrielle
#4. No one would ever know it to look at me that as soon as I'm alone I am busy busy busy in the head.
Diana Joseph
#5. You can't stumble into an adventure. An artist must dance, not walk, in order to inspire their audience. This patient audience who has witnessed all that you've ever performed. So don't be shy. Just dance. Set this scene into motion.
F.K. Preston
#6. I say that I hate you, but deep inside I love you. Love is in my mind, in my soul, and deep in my heart. As it always has been. As it always might be.
J.C. Reed
#7. Nor is the people's judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
John Dryden
#8. Language always occurs in a context - you can speak Elizabethan words, but to speak the language you have to put on the mindset ...
John Geddes
#10. The lesson of report cards, grades, and tests is that children should not trust themselves or their parents but should instead rely on the evaluation of certified officials. People need to be told what they are worth.
John Taylor Gatto
#11. Listen to the secret sound, the real sound, which is inside you. The one no one talks of speaks the secret sound to himself, and he is the one who has made it all.
Kabir
#12. Daniel Wolf's advice - want what you have.
Diane Keaton
#14. The most dangerous enemy of truth and freedom among us is the compact majority. Yes, the damned, compact, liberal majority...
Thomas Stockman
#16. I've always thought it was important not to attach too much superstition to the space where you're writing, because once you get into the mindset that you can only do it a certain way in a certain place, your creativity can get blocked.
Sadie Jones
#17. Miranda Lambert is actually mixing the singer-songwriter philosophy with the commercial country [mindset]. And I find it just inspiring. My hat's off completely, because she's pulling it off, and I couldn't figure out a way to do it.
Allison Moorer
#18. Put your manuscript down, I'd recommend at least two months. Six would be ideal. You really need to get away from it long enough to change your mindset. Unless you have a photographic memory, this technique will work. You'll transform into the one thing you crave feedback from: a reader.
A.J. Flowers
#19. If you really think back to the culture or just black America before rap music took off, New York could have been Paris.
Ice Cube
#21. All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman, and a pretty girl.
Charlie Chaplin
#22. Playing to bigger audiences at festivals got me in the mindset of writing music that I would sing to a crowd.
Caroline Polachek
#23. I believe that positive energy and optimism help us to take up any challenge in life and to succeed in even the most difficult tasks. I also believe that positive energy is contagious: we can transmit it to others.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#24. Life is too short, time is too precious, and the stakes are too high to dwell on what might have been. We have to work together for what still can be.
Hillary Clinton
#25. Teachers teaches us the rules, but winners make their own rules
Saikat Dey
#26. I would write light entertainment nonfiction pieces during the day, then come home and work on my fantasy fiction. It was very difficult to get out of the one mindset and into another one.
Cassandra Clare
