Creative Writing Quotes - Page 2

If you criticize what you’re doing too early you’ll never write the first li

A writer can do without food for a few hours, but not without the sight of books.

You cannot choose your face but you can choose your dress.

If where you are is worthwhile then where you are from doesn't matter.

People won't see Imagination in something that doesn't relate to their experience because of their own mental limitations. I want people to escape the expected and ordinary, to escape the regular expectations of a story, and truly step into a different world of literature.

The decision is your own voice, an opinion is the echo of someone else's voice.

Civilians enjoy their time because soldiers sacrifice their time.

Create a world in front of your readers where they can taste, smell, touch, hear, see, and move. Else they are likely going to move on to another book.

Words are the residue that I was there, that I loved my wife, that I kissed my children goodnight, that I sacrificed my life for them. Words are a curse. Life is a curse. Words escape life. Life escapes words. What in God's name am I? How does someone name a God? What is it to name yourself?

In your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts.

A word of warning here. The events as you remember them will never be the same in your memory once you have turned them into a memoir. For years I have worried that if I turn all of my life into literature, I won't have any real life left - just stories about it. And it is a realistic concern: it does happen like that. I am no longer sure I remember how it felt to be twenty and living in Spain after my parents died; my book about it stands now between me and my memories. When I try to think about that time, what comes to mind most readily is what I wrote.

Isn't the writing of good prose an emotional excitement?""Yes, of course it is. At least, when you get the thing dead right and know it's dead right, there's no excitement like it. It's marvelous. It makes you feel like God on the Seventh Day – for a bit, anyhow.

Writing a story is like going on a date—you will spoil it if you aren't living in the moment.

A farmer is a magician who produces money from the mud.

Any girl with a grin never looks grim.

In writing, there is art. And in art, there is craft ...

Diet food is not a meal its a medicine.

The wrong man is not always wrong because of his wrong actions, often he is wrong because of no actions.

Giving these students, teenagers, any form of power over the use of their own words, allowing them to turn everyday raw material into some form of beauty, is a gift beyond measure.

When wealth goes only happiness goes, when health goes even the hope goes.

Every kingdom has three pillars: Poet, Sword and Law.

Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion.

Today it is cheaper to start a business than tomorrow.

The job of feets is walking, but their hobby is dancing.

Don't always use prudence for precaution, sometimes use it for progress.

Networking isn't how many people you know, it's how many people know you.

In the last twenty years the colleges have been emphasizing creative writing to such an extent that you almost feel that any idiot with a nickel's worth of talent can emerge from a writing class able to write a competent story. In fact, so many people can now write competent stories that the short story as a medium is in danger of dying of competence. We want competence, but competence by itself is deadly. What is needed is the vision to go with it, and you do not get this from a writing class.

Creative writing is your ability to develop your inner tension, your libido, your supply of energy and electric charge, turning the charge into an image or thought, and wording the thought, thus contributing all the activity of your mind to the immortal culture of humankind and subsequently to your own immortality.

Writers fly with imaginary wings.

If you think there is no time to write now, there would never be.

You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery.

A slip of the foot may injure your body, but a slip of the tongue will injure your bond.

Some of us can live without a society but not without a family.

Texting is not talking and a phone is not a friend.

If your prudence stops you every time from taking an action, then you are no more prudent, you are frightened.

The smell of the sweat is not sweet, but the fruit of the sweat is very sweet.

Passion makes you good, but pride stops you to get better.

All I need to dois place my pen against paperand your lovewrites for me.

Walk with the Creator on the face of earth.

Respect cannot be inherited, respect is the result of right actions.

Music is the fastest motivator in the world.

Hunger gives flavour to the food.

A powerful process automatically takes care of progress, productivity and profits.

I only wrote prose before I met you. My musings were superfluous and serious as well. But now the words dance with me. I sing with them and we create poetry.

If thinking should precede acting, then acting must succeed thinking.

Routine ruins the life, variety vitalise the life.

If you write then you are reborn because by writing about the moment, you can relive it for a second time.

There are always messages, even enigmas to be searched, mysteries to be solved in all of my books. I like to puzzle readers, but I do not make so to the point of being so complex that they will lose interest in the plot. And that for me is the essence of every great literature around the world, and that’s been so for ages.(....)Some were inpired by real life characters, some other books I wrote are hybrid fiction/non-fiction, so I pretty much get inspired by people who have lived, and even who are still breathing among us… so don’t get discouraged if I didn’t mention your personality traits yet. I might even have your name over my books, I must some day…

Hands can cook, hands can create, hands can kill. There is no better tool than our hands.

The process doesn’t end there. Stories are more than just images. As you continue in the tale, you get to know the characters, motivations and conflicts that make up the core of the story. This requires more parts of the brain. Some parts process emotion. Others infer the thoughts of others, letting us empathize with their experiences. Yet other parts package the experience into memories for future reflection

During a conversation, listening is as powerful as loving.

Anecdotes don't make good stories. Dig down so far that what finally comes out is not even what you thought it was about.

Branding is a lot of things, but one thing it's not is soft.When you brand, rebrand or brand-diggity, ask yourself one thing to do it right: how will my brand create buyers?If you’re in business, that’s the goal. Buyers. Branding done well creates both long term loyalty and timely purchases.

Turn those deep feelings and obsessions of your heart into captivating pieces of literature.

War is not just the shower of bullets and bombs from both sides, it is also the shower of blood and bones on both sides.

The real flight of this hawk is impending.Still,this bird is yet to be tested for real.Though I have leaped over the seas,well,the entire sky is still remaining to fly.And make sure that ,i am gonna do it with all my heart and all my soul.#loveyoourlife #liveyourlife #hvFUN

Faster is fatal, slower is safe.

Words are better than weapons, wisdom is better than war.

An entrepreneur with strong network makes money even when he is asleep.

You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian.