Start telling the stories that only you can tell

Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre and films.

Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there’ll always be better writers than you and there’ll always be smarter writers than you. There will always be people who are much better at doing this or doing that — but you are the only you. ~Neil Gaiman

Stop arguing with yourself. Change it. See? Easy. And no one had to die. – Anne Enright

Anne Teresa Enright FRSL is an Irish author. She has published novels, short stories, essays, and one non-fiction book. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, her novel The Gathering won the 2007 Man Booker Prize.
Imagine that you are dying. If you had a terminal disease would you finish this book? Why not? The thing that annoys this 10-weeks-to-live self is the thing that is wrong with the book. So change it. Stop arguing with yourself. Change it. See? Easy. And no one had to die. – Anne Enright

Don’t take anyone’s writing advice too seriously. – L. Grossman

Lev Grossman is an American novelist and journalist, notably the author of the novels: Warp, Codex, The Magicians, The Magician King, and The Magician's Land.