Writers On Quotes
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.
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
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.
There is a fine line between fair criticism and jealous assault.
As with writing by candlelight, one’s greatest ideas come from ‘the flickering’ between darkness and light.
Committing your thoughts and feelings to words is like putting your soul on a plate and hoping the diners will like what they eat.
Write for impact first, money second. If you do it the other way around, you’ll end up with less of either.
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.
Souls are more important than stories, yes. But stories are a window to the soul. Without stories, the soul suffocates.
Sometimes the writing just comes and we're like, oh yeah. Gotta love when that happens.
Never take yourself too seriously. Learn to let go and let the words flow.
Writing isn't difficult. Writing well is difficult. What is most difficult is being with the interior experience that manifests as resistance to writing.
If I ask you to think about something, you can decide not to. But if I make you feel something? Now I have your attention.
All you have to do is put one word after another, and remember how great it feels to be a writer.
There were no absolutes in fiction, no certain way to deliver what was needed. So it was no surprise most technical writers considered novel-writing a gateway to madness.
The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple — to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it.
You may follow the footstepsThe whole day will passWith you going around in circlesYet not reaching anywhere at last!
Your personal growth is the only thing that matters. You own and write your story no one else does. Believe in your unique steps up the mountain.
And then it dawned on me that the greatest love stories in the world never have happy endings.
One day someone will fall in love with you despite all your flaws! Then magic will happen in your life!
At times all you need is a bottle of fine old wine, a mellifluous piece of music playing in the background and a good book to spend the entire night in a magical bliss!
Sylvia Plath and I met a long time ago. A really long time ago. Was it a summer day? No! It was a wintry November morning!
We have conversations most nights, Sylvia Plath and me. On these cold wintry nights with our coffee mugs in hand, we talk for hours and hours, Sylvia Plath and me!
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...
