Motivational Writing Quotes

I just want to write books or give talks which, if I were in the audience or I were the reader, I would appreciate.

I noticed people would read these short articles I was assigned to write for our church bulletin and they would say, Boy, thats good stuff. I got letters from people around the country saying, Thats really good. And I thought, Is it really?

I'm not writing for myself. I'm writing as an educator, I'm writing to stimulate others.

Write like it matters, and it will.

With my first book, 'A Letter to a Young Brother,' I figured it would be my only book I was ever going to write. What happened with that is a lot of young men would reach out to me.

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

My first book was called, 'Mountain, Get Out of My Way,' where I did an autobiographical sketch, if you will, looking back at myself and looking back at things in my life, and juxtaposing them against things that are happening in other people's lives and trying to be motivational.

Everyone has a book within them. Everyone has to write it thinking, 'How will I help other people? What will the book do to touch lives?'