Writing Words Quotes

Writing Words Quote of the day

I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write. You have to spend a lifetime in love with words.

A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.

Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.

You can't be blocked if you just keep on writing words. Any words. People who get 'blocked' make the mistake of thinking they have to write good words.

In good writing, words become one with things.

Once, lovers on faraway shores sat by candlelight and dipped ink to parchment, writing words that could not be erased. They took an evening to compose their thoughts, maybe the next evening as well.

I get drunk writing words. I don't drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I get inebriated from it.

It took me to about maybe 16, 17 or 18 or something to realise I was absolutely useless at everything else except for playing guitar and writing words

I am completely unflustered by whichever medium people choose to read my words. I'm just delighted they're reading them at all!

Words are the writer's sorcery, our dark arts and our sleight of hand. They're our enchantment and our temptation

The brain. Where words mean something. The heart. Where words feel something. When both work together. Kaboom.

Writing is the dancing of words, sometimes it is beautiful and meaningful, sometimes it is not.

Writing is an abstract art of drawing pictures of the conscious and subconscious mind with words.

People don't believe me when I tell them I'm a magician who makes portals to other worlds. So I tell them I'm a writer instead.

He loved words, and he would admit that he was playing with them all the time. He was obsessive about the rhythm of the sentence, and would add a word, subtract a word. [about Truman Capote]

[Everything you write is] not simply a collection of words, but a means of influence not to be taken lightly. Let your recipient's emotions be the gondola, and your words, its gondolier.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then the imagination is worth a thousand pictures.

Figures are the most shocking things in the world. The prettiest little squiggles of black looked at in the right light and yet consider the blow they can give you upon the heart.

One day you will tell me how to change what I cannot yet describe without my words swelling HUGE, vowels vanishing, tears washing ink away.

Oh, how scary and wonderful it is that words can change our lives simply by being next to each other.

They go to Paris to learn how to make bombs and they come back having learned only how to write poetry, which they think is more explosive.

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.