It’s unbelievable to say, but it’s been six years since I announced I was launching glee Content Marketing. In that time I have written dozens—maybe hundreds—of content pieces on interesting topics, collaborated with really innovative brands and companies and looked for ways to share brand stories in ways that connect with their audiences and leave a positive impression. Above all, I’m proud that I’ve stayed true to what I set out to do; combine my passion for writing with my interest in technology and ability to think strategically. 

When you’re a writer—whether for business or fiction—you think about writing a lot…why you do it, how you do it and what you love about it. So in celebration of glee’s sixth anniversary, I decided to share a collection of 15 of my favorite quotes about writing:

On writing…

“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” – Maya Angelou

“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.” —Ernest Hemingway

“Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it’s the answer to everything. … It’s the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower out of life, even if it’s a cactus.” —Enid Bagnold

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time–proof that humans can work magic.” ―Carl Sagan

“Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.” ―Tom Stoppard

“When I say work I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs.”—Margaret Laurence

“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is … the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”—Mark Twain

“People say, ‘What advice do you have for people who want to be writers?’ I say, they don’t really need advice, they know they want to be writers, and they’re gonna do it. Those people who know that they really want to do this and are cut out for it, they know it.”—R.L. Stine, WD

On the writing process…

“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.” ―John Steinbeck

“The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.” ―Thomas Jefferson

“Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it’s the only way you can do anything really good.” ―William Faulkner

“A writer is working when he’s staring out of the window.” ―Burton Rascoe

Some very relatable writing humor…

“I don’t need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.” —Ray Bradbury, WD

“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.”―Douglas Adams

“If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.”―Isaac Asimov

Happy Birthday glee!

Tell me which quote is your favorite!

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