Top 1200 Writing Advice Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

No amount of advice change his attitude. He does not listed to good advice. Rather he gets angry.

Advice to young writers? Always the same advice: learn to trust our own judgment.

If a rabbit gave advice and the advice wasn't accepted, he immediately forgot it, and so did everyone else.

The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone’s advice.

No one was ever the better for advice: in general, what we called giving advice was properly taking an occasion to show our own wisdom at another's expense; and to receive advice was little better than tamely to another the occasion of raising himself a character from our defects.

If you are in doubt whether to write a letter or not, don't. And the advice applies to many doubts in life besides that of letter writing.

Advice? I don't offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.

I've always been the go-to girl for all of my girlfriends in terms of relationship advice or clothing advice.

E.L. Doctorow said once said that 'Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.' You don't have to see where you're going, you don't have to see your destination or everything you will pass along the way. You just have to see two or three feet ahead of you. This is right up there with the best advice on writing, or life, I have ever heard.

My advice to myself would be I should probably listen to advice.

There are all sorts of books offering advice on how to deal with life-threatening situations, but where's the advice on dealing with embarrassing ones?

I create offbeat advice; I don't follow it. I rarely take third-party advice on my investments.

When you're writing fiction or poetry... it really comes down to this: indifference to everything except what you're doing... A young writer could do worse than follow the advice given in those lines.

A poet is seldom hard up for advice. The worst part of it all is that sometimes the advice is coming from other poets, and they ought to know better.

I would never offer advice without the person asking for it. I, in general, don't believe in giving advice, actually, as a human being I don't.

My advice for writers is to get a good day job. It takes the pressure off writing if you have a job that pays the bills.

When the economy was going up, [Milton Friedman and I] both gave the same advice, and when the economy was going down, we gave the same advice. But in between he didn't change his advice at all.

The advice we give others is the advice that we ourselves need.

Advice may not be good advice 10 or 15 years from now. Someone could tell you something years ago and it might not work now. The world is constantly changing. One word could mean something different today. Today you can't give advice to anyone.

Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.

Advice to anglers: don't take advice from people with missing fingers.

There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice.

If anybody seeks your advice, offer right and sincere advice.

I have been listening to people's advice. Being a parent, you need all the advice you can get.

Whoever gives advice to a heedless man is himself in need of advice.

When I'm writing, I'm writing for a particular actor. When a lot of writers are writing, they're writing an idea. So they're not really writing in a specific voice.

I don't know if I ever would have developed into a good actor, but that got completely scotched when I lost my vocal cord at 14 in the operation. But writing always - writing plays, writing, writing, writing, that was what I wanted to do.

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

In golf, advice is not a big thing. If you don't have the ability, you won't get anywhere no matter how much advice you get. The only thing people can suggest that matters is, be a good person and treat people respectfully. But advice on your game doesn't mean much to me.

My advice would be the same advice that I gave President [George W.] Bush when he won in '04, and, kind of, wasn't followed. I think you go with the things you know you can pass.

Never follow anyone else’s path, unless you’re in the woods and you’re lost and you see a path and by all means you should follow that. Don’t give advice, it will come back and bite you in the ass. Don’t take anyone’s advice. So my advice to you is to be true to yourself and everything will be fine.

The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Get the advice of everybody whose advice is worth having - they are very few - and then do what you think best yourself.

People wanted more advice. So I finally thought I could totally put this advice into a book.

The best advice I can give is to ignore advice. Life is too short to be distracted by the opinions of others.

Read Becoming a Writer by Dorothea Brande. Then do what it says, including the tasks you think are impossible. You will particularly hate the advice to write first thing in the morning, but if you can manage it, it might well be the best thing you ever do for yourself. This book is about becoming a writer from the inside out. Many later advice manuals derive from it. You don't ­really need any others, though if you want to boost your confidence, "how to" books seldom do any harm. You can kick-start a whole book with some little writing exercise.

When you need advice- do you seek someone who has proven success or do you get advice from people who have never achieved what you desire?

I think the simplest advice I could give would be to wait until asked before giving advice.

I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing; until a year or so ago, I never read a book by anybody advising writers how to write.

There's a saying - "Write what you know." It's bad advice if you take it as an unbreakable rule, but good advice if you use it as a foundation.

I treat people who write me the way my friends and I all treat each other when we go to each other for advice, which is sometimes with supreme cruelty. I think that's what helps the advice sink in. If somebody comes at you with both barrels, the first shot opens your head, and the second shot allows the advice to get lodged inside.

Don't take my advice. Or anyone's advice. Trust yourself. For good or for bad, happy or unhappy, it's your life, and what you do with it has always been entirely up to you.

'Pain' is more indicative of what I like to do. I'm lyric-conscious. I like to tell stories, give advice. Instead of writing a 'Dear Abby' column, I do it on records.

When you have an attorney giving you advice, it would be nice to know what their financial relationship is to the advice.

I've got plenty of advice from a number of other actors. Me? I don't give advice.

Occasionally, I share advice, but most of my advice is based on my personal experience.

Shun advice at any price - that's what I call good advice.

Listen to advice from people who have been there and done that. It is so hard to believe that when you are young, but parents, mentors, teachers, they can all be so valuable when it comes to advice.

As an advice columnist, I spend a lot of time reading through psychology journals to ensure that I give the most up-to-date advice.

It gets really tricky giving advice. The older I get, the less advice I give.

Advice is not really very useful. People gave me terrible advice, and I guess I was just smart enough to ignore some of it.

Despite my mentors advice that I would never go to heaven fishing with a weighted nymph and a float, I took it up. (As an aside, it is now amazing to me how much of the advice from my elders in those days has not come true. I have not gone blind or deaf, despite some early teen advice to the contrary. The only time I was ever involved in a car accident, I was taken to hospital, but no one seemed to take the slightest bit of notice as to whether I had on clean underwear or not. I have, as yet, been unable to test the nymph and heaven advice.)

The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.

Worst advice? I either don't remember it or I've been very lucky in terms of getting good advice.

My sincere advice to any citizen considering moving to the United States and crossing our boundaries in irregular migration, my best advice is to not do it.

The only advice anybody can give is, if you wanna be a writer, keep writing. And read all you can, read everything.

When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.

Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.

Any time I can be of help to the government in terms of giving advice -I've given a little advice, actually.

Whoever gives advice to a sick person acquires a feeling of superiority over him, whether the advice be accepted or rejected.