Writers On Quotes
Poets, with no sponsors, no agenda, are the truest form of freedom today, bleeding out every drop of themselves for the world to either hate or devour.
They say, poetry is dead. I say, was there ever a time they had a clue of what the state of poetry is?
I was a poet. I had no expectations other than creating a world of art with words that would live on long after I was gone.
As a writer, a poet, you’re not alone in wanting to be alone. Your work is a friendship that never leaves you.
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.
Everyone has a story to tell. Everyone is a writer, some are written in the books and some are confined to hearts.
To my faithful readers, because a book is like a pie—the only thing more satisfying than cooking up the story is knowing that somebody might be out there eating it up with a spoon.
To write a novel is to dream while awake, then express the dream to the reader in an absorbing way. The road leading from the writer's inner world to the readers' is paved with prose.
I like to think that Henry James said his classic line, "A writer is someone on whom nothing is lost, " while looking for his glasses, and that they were on top of his head.
...being "rather unique" is no more possible than being rather pregnant.
Good writing is good writing, whatever form it takes and whatever we call it.
I'm often dismayed by the sludge I see appearing on my screen if I approach writing as a task--the day's work--and not with some enjoyment.
Writing is such a lonely work that I try to keep myself cheered up.
There are times when I'm writing where time feels irrelevant. Those are the moments I know I'm creating magic.
In a suspended psychic state, writers cull words and symbols from the mystical world of memory, imagination, and intuition.
Save your work, you may never know when the light will go off.
The planet you inhabit is a single plane of infinite dimensions, stretched like a guitar string, and standing before you like a concubine waiting for your command.
We all have a place within us, that would like to rewrite the way our life was written out for us....That's why people want to become authors.
Begin to write, your heart will flow with sacred words.
Literature sustains life because it captures death in its forward march. Clickety-clickety-clack, the wheels go round and round ...
Doing nothing can be as rewarding as doing something. And doing very little can be as productive, in a creative sense, as doing a lot.
Put emotions to thoughts. Thoughts to words. Words to paragraphs. Paragraphs to pictures. Let your mind be known, heard and seen. Your thoughts are real as it could be.
I reside in an abode where your thoughts imagine me... You reside in my heart where the auricles camouflage my longing...
Oh you cut your hair! What happened? Are you going through a breakup or something?""My favorite character died.
You're never as good a writer as you think you are, and you're never as bad. Just keep reading and writing, writing, writing.
Writing is probably the only form of art, through which you can express, which you would otherwise wouldn't dare to say in person....
They always tell you to do what you love. But they forget to add that writing doesn't pay by the hour.
I write things down because my thoughts get too heavy in my head and it hurts my neck.
Sometimes the writing just comes and we're like, oh yeah. Gotta love when that happens.
Souls are more important than stories, yes. But stories are a window to the soul. Without stories, the soul suffocates.
You don't have to take it out on my typewrite ya' know. It's not the machine's fault that you can't write. It's a sin to do that to a good machine.
Write for impact first, money second. If you do it the other way around, you’ll end up with less of either.
Committing your thoughts and feelings to words is like putting your soul on a plate and hoping the diners will like what they eat.
As with writing by candlelight, one’s greatest ideas come from ‘the flickering’ between darkness and light.
There is a fine line between fair criticism and jealous assault.
Writing fiction or nonfiction is a lonely battle wrestling with sentences in an effort to put together an intelligible thought that speaks for the author.
Having authored numerous and pretty versatile write-ups, I can’t say that anything other than my soul, heart and life experience can be called a prominent part of every book I ever wrote
The obscure, unexplainable aspect of the writing process is about how some rhymes appear in your head. It often feels more like tuning in to some kind of channel than composing words in your mind.
If you don’t write your memoirs down then time will swallow them up, leaving no leftovers.
You know you are a writer when characters inside your brain keep demanding, 'This is my story! Now tell it or I will never leave you alone!
Your writing should be filled with simple complexities and complex simplicities. Because that is life.
