Quotes About Advice

I think it was Harry Walpole who remarked, In this life one should try everything once except incest and country dancing.

Remember," cautioned the centaur, "modesty. Observance of the gods. In a fight, do not do what you want to do, but what you judge your enemy least wants you to. You cannot control others if you cannot control yourself. Those who most understand their own limitations have the fewest.

We're delighted to have you here,' he said, putting an arm round the young man's shoulder, 'but a word of advice. Don't try to be clever. We're all clever here. Only try to be kind, a little kind.' Like most university stories, this one is variously attributed and it probably never even happened but, as the Italians say, se non e vero, e ben trovato - even if it isn't true, it's well founded.

Tell your troubles to a man, and to the best of his ability he'd advise you how to fix them. Complain at that, and you'd bewilder him. Why seek advice, only in order to reject it? What, otherwise, could have been the point of the conversation?

Never scrub your arse with a wire brush.

I am always chilled and astonished by the would-be writers who ask me for advice and admit, quite blithely, that they don't have time to read. This is like a guy starting up Mount Everest saying that he didn't have time to buy any rope or pitons.

All I ask is that you do as well as you can, and remember that, while to write adverbs is human, to write he said or she said is divine.

stop now before i kill you a word to the wise from your friend PENNYWISE

This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit.

Upon being asked by a fan how to become a writer, Stephen King replied, Write.

This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, don't understand very much about what they do -- not why it works when it's good, not why it doesn't when it's bad. I figured the shorter the book, the less bullshit. Stephen King, On Writing

What our parents tell us when we are small seldom goes ignored, no matter how foolish it may be

A little arrogance (or even a lot) isn't such a bad thing, although your mother undoubtedly told you different. Mine did. Pride goeth before a fall, Stephen, she said... and then I found out - right around the age that is 19 x 2 - that eventually you fall down, anyway.

Sometimes you can't help people. Sometimes it's better not even to try.

My grandmother used to say a person shouldn't call out unless they want an answer. I've always thought that was good advice.

Your pimples are the Lord's way of chastising you. Now eat your pie.

One rule of the road not directly stated elsewhere in this book: 'The editor is always right.' The corollary is that no writer will take all of his or her editor's advice; for all have sinned and fallen short of editorial perfection.

Never believe a writer. Listen to them, by all means, but never believe them.

There are no tips for life neither for travelling

Advice is autobiography.

Just be yourself' is about the worst advice you can give some people.

Just write. That's my only tip. And read. I guess that's two.

There is no smarter professor than life, and no wiser sage than experience.

In real life, second chances are rare. I therefore advise you to take every single chance very seriously.