Creative Writing Quotes - Page 3

Music shouldn't be just a tune, it should be a touch.

In modern times couples are more concerned about loyalty than love.

All stories are the sin of their weaver.

There is no correct way to write a novel, or rather, there is only one, and that one way is to make it interesting. That is very easily said, but how do you make your writing interesting?The answer to the question is, that you write interestingly only about the things that genuinely interest you. This is an infallible rule.

Don't compare the size of your roof with the size of the sky.

Brilliance of the brain must be admired more than beauty of the body.

It's time to shop high heels if your fiance kisses you on the forehead.

You gave me a soul touch. A touch beyond physical. The most powerful of touch. I thought it was about you but I was wrong it was about me. In me. It took me a lifetime to realize it was me, not you. Thank you for showing me my soul.

Tell a story in lesser and simpler words.

Creativity is a magic wand that works two ways. When you set it in action and seek to create something, it does not just brings into existence that object or work, it also raises in your heart a dream, a hope, and a will to achieve that creation. And when all else seems lost and steeped in hopelessness, the magic of creativity can still keep you going. For when all else seem dark, an urge to create something would still give you an aim to look forward to. And if you just take hold of this urge, it will take hold of you and see you through even the darkest times. Like it did to me.

With right fashion, every female would be a flame.

At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that — the young man or the young woman must possess or teach himself, train himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try and to try until it comes right. He must train himself in ruthless intolerance. That is, to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph. The most important thing is insight, that is ... curiosity to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does. And if you have that, then I don't think the talent makes much difference, whether you've got that or not.]

Uniform of a soldier and uniform of a student both are equally needed for the nation.

Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and immediately all my biggest fears start running through my mind. I wonder if my fears will one day be my new reality. The fears seem so real. I struggle to shift my focus. Then slowly I realize that my fears are devoid of any love and that only love is real.

These poems are cupsthat I pour my life into.Here, Drink!

First time I ever put pen to paper, I had one goal – to build something no one had ever thought of before.

Before you worry about the beauty of your body, worry about the health of your body.

Health is hearty, health is harmony, health is happiness.

A professional who doesn't deliver as committed is not just lazy, he is a liar.

For few matters you need to be solo, for some matters you need soul mate and for many matters you need society,

In the business people with expertise, experience and evidence will make more profitable decisions than people with instinct, intuition and imagination.

As you become a better writer, the writing becomes more difficult. You toil harder to tell a story in a lesser number of words.

You can not control the thought, but you can control the tongue.

Ideas either age like fine wine or rot like potatoes over time.

She might not have read many books. But when she reads a book, she swallows the very words. If you open the books on her shelves, you will find that the front and back covers encase white pages.

What luck has gave you will probably leave you.

It is a dangerous thing to substitute reading or writing for living. Live first, then write.

For every writer, there is a challenge of time that is only magnified in the solitude of the work.

Every time you go to see Hamlet you don't expect it to have a happy ending...you're still enthralled.(Interview BBC Radio 4 Today 17 October 2012.)

What is hell to a writer? Hell is being too busy to find the time to write or being unable to find the inspiration. Hell is suddenly finding the words but being away from your notebook or typewriter. Hell is when the verses slip away through your fingers and they never return again.

When the lyrical muse sings the creative pen dances.

State first, subject second, statesman last.

An assembly is extra slow in taking actions.

Action achieves ambition.

Be a good reader first, if you wish to become a good writer.

My spouse is my shield, my spouse is my strength.

There's still too much energy leftover at this tomb-desk, on Broadway, when I am semi-asleep at night in our bedroom, struggling to get a good night's rest. There's an overflow of loin energy. It spills out from my pores as if I were a cracked drum of reacting chemicals. I need to work to expend this excess energy in words, stories and books....My mind is a body that's a mind.

Destroy your life; then put it back together.You'll get great material, meet some fascinating characters and – side benefit – the skills you develop will give you greater compassion, insight and range with the people you create on the page – or run into off of it.

In a democracy government is the God.

If you are a singer, you must sing. If you are a dancer, you must dance. If you are a writer, you must write. Don’t suffocate your heart.

Create. Not for the money. Not for the fame. Not for the recognition. But for the pure joy of creating something and sharing it.

If she says goodbye, someone else will say hi.

It is the sweat of the servants that make their squire look smart.

With discipline, you can lose weight, you can excel in work, you can win the war.

The purpose of a profession is to fulfil the personal wishes of a prospect.

Fail soon so that you can succeed sooner.

In a democracy, there will be more complaints but less crisis, in a dictatorship more silence but much more suffering.

Create a character with an obsession, then follow.

Dresses won't worn out in the wardrobe, but that is not what dresses are designed for.

The mistakes of the world are warning message for you.

Nick wanted to meet on campus at Love Library. (That was the actual name; thank you for your donation, Mayor Don Lathrop Love.)

You may be a poet and not even know it.

All worries are less with wine.

Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon.

You can work to create a bright future.

A good food is mouthwatering when you see it and finger licking when you eat it.

A poor, who hates power, once become powerful, hates poor.

Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.

The difference between a fairly interesting writer and a fascinating writer is that the fascinating writer has a better nose for what genuinely excites him, he is hotter on the trail, he has a better instinct for what is truly alive in him. The worse writer may seem to be more sensible in many ways, but he is less sensible in this vital matter: he cannot distinguish what is full of life from what is only half full or empty of it. And so his writing is less alive, and as a writer he is less alive, and in writing, as in everything else, nothing matters but life.

A poetess is not as selfishas you assume.After months of agonising over her marriage of words—the bride—and spaces—the groom,she knows that as soonas she has penned the poem,it’s yours to consume.So, without giving it a think,she blows on the inkand the letters fly awaylike dandelions on a windy day,landing on hands and lips, on hearts and hips.But more often than not,you can easily spotthem trodden and forgotten,becoming sodden and rotten.Yet, she will continue to makewhat’s others to takebecause selfishness is not the mark of a poetess.