Writers On Quotes
Aren't you tired from all that smiling that you do at the camera? Relax and come with me to the mountains. There is more to life than the cameras!
I write things down because my thoughts get too heavy in my head and it hurts my neck.
They always tell you to do what you love. But they forget to add that writing doesn't pay by the hour.
Writing is probably the only form of art, through which you can express, which you would otherwise wouldn't dare to say in person....
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.
Oh you cut your hair! What happened? Are you going through a breakup or something?""My favorite character died.
I reside in an abode where your thoughts imagine me... You reside in my heart where the auricles camouflage my longing...
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.
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.
Literature sustains life because it captures death in its forward march. Clickety-clickety-clack, the wheels go round and round ...
Begin to write, your heart will flow with sacred words.
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.
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.
Save your work, you may never know when the light will go off.
In a suspended psychic state, writers cull words and symbols from the mystical world of memory, imagination, and intuition.
There are times when I'm writing where time feels irrelevant. Those are the moments I know I'm creating magic.
Writing is such a lonely work that I try to keep myself cheered up.
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.
Good writing is good writing, whatever form it takes and whatever we call it.
...being "rather unique" is no more possible than being rather pregnant.
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.
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.
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.
Everyone has a story to tell. Everyone is a writer, some are written in the books and some are confined to hearts.
Stories not only give us a much needed practice on figuring out what makes people tick, they give us insight into how we tick.
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.
As a writer, a poet, you’re not alone in wanting to be alone. Your work is a friendship that never leaves you.
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.
They say, poetry is dead. I say, was there ever a time they had a clue of what the state of poetry is?
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.
Each morning the winds of the city moan and weep with lost souls clinging to hope of reliving the memories of yesterday.
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.
Writing nonfiction means I tell people's stories for them, not because they're special but because we all are.
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.
He would write and write. He would make wonderful things happen. Some of it would be true. All of it would be true. Most of it would be true.
Often as writers, we are surprised by what we learn about ourselves. It runs counter to what we’ve thought about who we are. But it is closer to the truth.
The closer one gets to the speed of light, the slower time travels. The exact thing is true when completing a book.
He has always admired writers who each day begin a journey towards the unknown and who nevertheless spend all their time sitting in a room".
When a writer doesn’t show his face, he becomes a local symptom of God’s famous reluctance to appear.
The writer sat besides the weeping Gilgamesh, swam out of all the unsinkable ships sank. He was there, and he wasn't. Like a naturalist observing the tarn of life from an unseen bubble of neutrality.