“I don’t think writer’s block is what people think it is. When I feel ‘stuck’ or apathetic about what I’m working on, it almost always means I shouldn’t be doing it. The problem is either that I don’t have a clear idea of what I want to say, or I’m trying to write it in a way that is too far removed…”— Brianna Wiest, girllostinthecity.com
“You have to care about your work but not about the result. You have to care about how good you are and how good you feel, but not about how good people think you are or how good people think you look.”— Amy Poehler, amazon.com
“Here's the thing. Your career won't take care of you. It won't call you back or introduce you to its parents. Your career will openly flirt with other people while you are around. It will forget your birthday and wreck your car. Your career will blow you off if you call it too much. It's never going…”— Amy Poehler, amazon.com
“He went on and on about how weird that was. He pointed out that people were really starting to know my name and asked me if I 'could believe it.' 'Yes.' I said. I had worked for over a decade to get to this moment. I hadn't just dropped my script in someone's lap on a train. 'Can you?' I asked him.”— Amy Poehler, amazon.com
“Good or bad, the reality is most people become 'famous' or get 'great jobs' after a very, very long tenure shoveling shit and not because they handed their script to someone on the street.”— Amy Poehler, amazon.com
“I wrote this book after my kids went to sleep. I wrote this book on subways and on airplanes and in between setups while I shot a television show. I wrote this book from scribbled thoughts I keep in the Notes app on my iPhone and conversations I had in my own head before I went to sleep. I wrote it…”— Amy Poehler, amazon.com
“Do you think miners stand around all day talking about how hard it is to mine for coal? They do not. They simply dig.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“I’m never not working on material. Every second of my existence, I am thinking, ‘Can I do something with that?'”— , thoughtcatalog.com
“The honest to god truth? In the year prior to becoming a full-time producer and writer, I wrote over 350 pieces for various publications. I worked to get where I am today. It wasn’t just lucky. It was work. But I’d do it all over again.”— Kendra Syrdal, kendrasyrdal.tumblr.com
“Instead of asking “how’d you get that,” say, “Wow. You must’ve worked so hard to get that.”— Sara Benincasa, sarabenincasa.tumblr.com
“The world does not care if you write or not, so to be successful you have to be so good that your work is better than all the other available distractions.”— Elizabeth Wurtzel, buzzfeed.com
“The best filter isn’t BuzzFeed, or The Atlantic, or whatever. The best filter is money. That is how you say “I love you.” This is America. This is a capitalist country. We say “I’m sorry” with money. We say “I love you” with money.”— Elizabeth Wurtzel, buzzfeed.com