Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just g... - Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

"The scariest moment is always just before you start."

"I have spent a good many years since―too many, I think―being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I realized that almost every writer of fiction or poetry who has ever published a line has been accused by someone of wasting his or her God-given talent. If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's all."

"To write is human, to edit is divine."

"Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work."

"you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will."