“I don't have any magic tips. When I needed an agent, I googled how do I get an agent? and followed the directions.”— Roxane Gay, twitter.com
“Writers are always looking for the secret. And sometimes someone knows someone or whatever but mostly you just need to write.”— Roxane Gay, twitter.com
“When it comes to self-improvement, investing 10 percent of your income on yourself will yield a 100X or more return on that investment. For every dollar you spend on your education, skills, and relationships, you'll get at least 100 dollars back in returns.”— Benjamain Hardy, cnbc.com
“Edgar Allen Poe once called the death of a beautiful woman 'the most poetical topic in the world' and I've often found myself wondering how many woman writers who have killed themselves or let themselves be otherwise obliterated were trying, somehow, to fulfill this most popular of narratives.”— Jessica Valenti, amazon.com
“Let other people tell you that you are a star. It's not for you to tell them. They would have already noticed.”— Karl Lagerfeld, amazon.com
“Write a bad song. Write a very bad song. But write a song. Then write another.”— John Mayer, twitter.com
“A writer who turns a phrase beautifully can turn me on, as can someone who makes me laugh.”— Roxane Gay, instyle.com
“If you took the monsters’ point of view, everything they did made perfect sense. The trick was learning to think like a monster.”— Sy Montgomery, amazon.com
“I love hotel rooms with two beds: one for me and one for my delivered pizzas.”— Alissa Nutting, grubstreet.com
“I was talking to Spike Jonze the other day, and he was like, 'Yeah, I'm not really doing anything right now. My rule is, if it's not more fun than going surfing, I'm not gonna do it.' I love when I say no to everything.”— Aziz Ansari, gq.com
“Sometimes I block people not because they are abusive, but because I want to pretend I live in a world where they don't exist.”— Judd Apatow, twitter.com
“Don't use women as a writing technique if you're not trying to actually understand or value them.”— Ari Eastman, facebook.com
“Waking up is not a one-time event. Waking up is a practice. Waking up is a commitment that continues for a lifetime.”— Chani Nicholas, chaninicholas.com
“Twitter is art. Twitter is writing. It does feel a little bit corny to say that, but at the same time, it would be foolish to deny the literary merit of tweets and to deny the historical significance Twitter will have.”— Mira Gonzalez, thecreativeindependent.com
“I feel less like I'm getting older and more like the side effects of who I am are evaporating. I have to remember that it's "old" to others.”— John Mayer, twitter.com