For Writers Quotes
Writers strive for the impossible: perfection. Even the universe is flawed.
Writers are compulsive liars desperately trying to tell themselves the truth.
All writers of confessions from Augustine on down, have always remained a little in love with their sins.
The sea of reporters on her lawn made Loretta Brooks do a double take.
i didn't call myself a writer until everyone else did. i knew it was real then.
Write the ending first and then you'll know before the opening sentence that it's going to be a good book.
I was a woman and did not yet think of myself as a writer. I was a mapmaker.
The out-dated imagery of sitting over a dusty typewriter staring at blank pages for years is a fallacy and probably designed to keep you from living up to your fullest potential.
My view on writers? We all have the same shovels, but never dig in the same places or to the exact same depth
I always wanted to be a writer, and I always wrote something – stories, poetry, articles, newsletters, letters. Most writers can't help themselves! It's a compulsion.
I have always noticed that these artists and writers are very unbalanced
To most, being locked away in solitary with nothing but pen and paper would prove a hard punishment. What a strange creature who views this as heaven.
...people quote proverbs without realizing they're really in awe of the authority of their truth and the power of their expression...
...bow to genius, but to the authority of that genius - not the display of talent...
If writers stopped writing about what happened to them, then there would be a lot of empty pages.
...how many writers still dare compare a woman to Nature, like Campion? - there is a garden in her face - how lovely...
...a writer without authority? Impossible. as Kenneth Burke says, creation implies authority in the sense of originator....
You connect yourself to the viewer by by sharing something that is inside of you that connects with something inside of him. All you have as your guide is that you know what moves you.
Aren't we all waiting to be read by someone, praying that they'll tell us that we make sense?
...it's not the stories - it's the pain and the joy and the people who stay with you long after the stories are told ...
Upon the one thing every writer absolutely must have, and that is intellectual curiosity.
Only a happy mind will see the beauty of a beautiful view! For the sad mind everywhere looks gloomy!
A person that doesn't read and doesn't have any ethics complaining about a writer feels like a Chihuahua barking at a Rottweiler.
Though this child came in with nothing but excess baby fat, chemical brain waves, and mother and son bodily toxins on his legs, he had a fate fit for a modern day demigod.
Writing nonfiction means I tell people's stories for them, not because they're special but because we all are.
A thrilling story can be dull if told badly, but even the most mundane event can be elevated into a tale of epic scale by a good storyteller.
No man thinks the same story when looking at a photo because every mind lived a different story!
Creative people need strong encouragement.
You can always be better than your master but you can never change the fact that you were his student and he was your master! The seed must always respect for his soil!
Respect the hand stronger than your hand if and only if that hand is just and an honourable hand!
There is only one way to be a respectful being and the way for this is very simple: Respect other beings!
Which gate to enter? Which path to choose? Which stairs to take? Which direction to go? These questions can be very depressive! And sometimes the solution lies in being bold, in being imprudent!
Do something very praiseworthy in your youth or in your middle age so that you can spend all your time talking about it in your old age!
Earth is a heaven but man often creates many hells within this heaven and a fascist country is one of the hottest and the most suffocating hell amongst all those hells!
A peaceful life is always the best destination one can ever arrive at and it is the only real heaven one can ever ascend to!
You can pull people to your own winter and freeze them up or you can take your sun to people’s own winter and warm them up! It is up to you to bring hell or heaven to people’s life!
If you know the art of being happy with simple things, then you know the art of having maximum happiness with minimum effort!
If you are not happy with your life, it is most probably because you have eagle eyes to see the negative parts of your life and almost blind to the beautiful side!
I heard the breeze whisper your name to the trees. And the flowers giggled smiling at the leaves. I and my loneliness keep talking about you.
Stories not only give us a much needed practice on figuring out what makes people tick, they give us insight into how we tick.