Writers On Quotes

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 ...

Become my muse. And let me paint you with my words...

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.

If a book falls in the woods and nobody read it, was it ever written?

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.

Writing is a way of life.

I personally believe that one learns to write by writing.

The moment I realize I just stayed up until five in the morning writing is that moment I know I am meant to be a writer.

We weave together the many skeins of our words, Into poems and stories and books, And the books are made so much more vivacious and colourful, For all the care that is woven in along with the words.

When writing feels like jumping a cliff, grab the nearest pen!

Confusion of a Writer - Sometimes I want all limelight to shine on me and sometimes I just want to vanish underneath the deep waters.

Look back, but never look down.

The pen that was once a gift has come to represent all that I hope to achieve.

Being an author is to have a toe in the creative pool and a foot in the vat of commerce.

Editing one’s writing is as easy as lighting a match while riding a bicycle.

If a pen can communicate our thoughts, dreams, and emotions and be the voice of our soul, then ink is the medium that carries the message.

We see and tell about the myriad truths of how the universe is and might be. That's what we writers DO.

Rarely will I write indoors, even if it means getting wet during rain, or my hands numb in winter.

A pen that has clocked up a million words, a lifetime’s memories, is worth more than the centrepiece in a jeweller’s window.

You can be a writer who doesn't read everyday. But you're not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work.

I have found that a writer is formed not so much by their experiences but by the way in which they view and capture those experiences.

I never understood, what a starving artist was until I became one.

Letters orchestrated into a song of words create the symphony of a novel.

Plot comes from the mind but the characters come from the heart!

In the act of creation, as in all the arts, the soul should be felt in the face and the fingers and the tongue, even in the cavities.

Never chase people in your life. No one is worthier than you to be chased.