How many of us writers and authors have those inner rejection voices while writing? Let them go.

Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain. ~ELIE WIESEL

As authors, we sometimes take the complex option instead of the simple one. Try writing simple.

It is helpful to write always at the same time of day. Scheduled obligations often raise problems, but an hour or two can almost always be found in the early morning when the telephone never rings and no one knocks at the door. And it is important that you write something, regardless of quantity, every day. As the Romans put it, Nulla dies sine linea–No day without a line. (They were speaking of lines drawn by artists, but the rule applies as well to the writer.) As a result of all this, the setting almost automatically evokes verbal behaviour. No warm-up is needed. A circadian rhythm develops that is extremely powerful. At a certain time every day, you will be highly disposed to engage in serious verbal behaviour. ~B.F. SKINNER

Torture your protagonist. The writer is both a sadist and a masochist. We create people we love, and then we torture them. The more we love them, and the more cleverly we torture them along the lines of their greatest vulnerability and fear, the better the story. Sometimes we try to protect them from getting booboos that are too big. Don’t. This is your protagonist, not your kid. ~JANET FITCH

Isn’t it great that part of your job description as an author and writer is to read books? 🙂

Publishers don’t nurse you; they buy and sell you. ~P.D. JAMES

Always remember as you write, outside expectations are for others. Your only job as an author is to write your story as you see it. Remove the pressure. ~Keep writing.

Being a writer requires an intoxication with language. ~JIM HARRISON

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power. ~TONI MORRISON