Write Quotes - Page 7

I read so I might live a thousand lives in a lifetime. I write to control the particulars in those lives.

We write to embrace the sacred thoughts.

Reading opens up other pockets of the mind.

Love writes without words.

You will create yourself with continuous self-education.

Lord I thank you for the gift of breath, eyes to see, ears to hear, tongue to taste, nose to smell; mouth to speak, face to smile, voice to sing, body to dance, legs to walk, mind to think and hands to write.

It does not matter what you write in English nobody has understood it anyway.

I only wish to read, think and write.

Write and create a blue sky Forever with joy where I can fly.

I write the sacred words from wondering.

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

She placed her hand on her chest and thought, 'So this is what the poets write about'.

Style jazzes up your canvas.

Your life should reflect your heart.

Vulnerability is the portal to feeling. Feeling is the portal to strength.

Write from the heart. A book without a pulse is like a person without a spirit." Linda Radke, President of Five Star Publications

To write better you must develop your taste for truth. You have to pay more attention to what you really think, feel, see and want.

Life consists of books. All experiences are stories to be told and must be written.

Life has sadness, joy, beauty, like poetry.So be passionate and write a great story.

The urge to create a fictional narrative is a mysterious one, and when an idea comes, the writer's sense of what a story wants to be is only vaguely visible through the penumbra of inspiration.

Until you take a pen to write, then you will see the miracle of writing.

If you ever expect to write fairytales, you've got to get your head in the clouds.

Writing barely differs from Talking and Reading. It appoints your hand while they engage your mouth and eyes respectively. The trio need the mind to combine sensible words from a meaningful arrangement of the ‘simple’ A B C to Z.

I don't want the words to be naked the way they are in faxes or in the computer. I want them to be covered by an envelope that you have to rip open in order to get at. I want there to be a waiting time -a pause between the writing and the reading. I want us to be careful about what we say to each other. I want the miles between us to be real and long. This will be our law -that we write our dailiness and our suffering very, very carefully.

Tonight, I decided to take a stroll down to my local liquor store. Maybe I’ll find a refreshment to wash down this full moon. I hate showing up & the clerk fucking knows my name, perhaps because I’m a regular. Anyways got my shit, left…barely covering the tax. Took the long way home; to get away from that haunting typewriter. Sat down at some park bench, as I started to open my poison; A memory rushed into me. A empty bottle of Jack Daniel’s under the Christmas tree. I thought my dad would want another drink, so started to pour my bottle into the dirt & cried.

You’ve got to trust yourself. Be gentle with yourself. And listen to yourself. You’re the only person who can get you through this now. You’re the only one who can survive your story, the only one who can write your future.All you’ve got to do, when you’re ready, is stand up, {and begin again.}

I couldn't write—or wouldn't write, at any rate—unable to face the grueling self-scrutiny that fiction demands

God accentuate our mind with exact words to write.

With diligent practice, you will be an expert.

My book sales are way down today. Also, I've received two scathing reviews. One of them calls me “a purveyor of insipid wet-dreams.

How could we have improved ourselves, if we had not dared to read, learn and write?

We can all take pictures but not everyone can capture the beauty that's usually hidden in plain view...We can all open our mouth to sing but not everyone can can melodically touch your soul...We can all pick up a pen to write but not everyone can write words in such a way that they leap off of the page for you...We can all part our lips to speak but not everyone can speak life into you...We can all move our bodies to a beat but not everyone can become one with music, stir emotions and shift energy with dance...Point is: WE CAN all do something but Know your gifts, cultivate them and ALWAYS, ALWAYS BE YOURSELF! Then working together becomes effortless. Copies aren't accepted everywhere...ORIGINALS are eventually required!

Another segment of society that has constructed a language of its own is business. People in business say that toner cartridges are in short supply, that they have updated the next shipment of these cartridges, and that they will finalize their recommendations at the next meeting of the board. They are speaking a language familiar and dear to them. Its portentous nouns and verbs invest ordinary events with high adventure; executives walk among toner cartridges, caparisoned like knights. We should tolerate them--every person of spirit wants to ride a white horse.

You write a thought down because you want to see what next as a thought is going to come out.

At the heart of the impulse to tell stories is a mystery so profound.

Just write it,Because it is the next best thing of the world.

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

Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.

Fly with a kind heart, a light spirit, and a resilient soul.

Creativity is magic in the making.

A great director gives life to a work of art- gives it a heartbeat… a pulse… opens its eyes to the world.

I spent all nightweaving a poem for you to wear. You look so beautifulwhen you wear my light.

Stop writing what you know and start writing what you want to know.

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.

Until you begin to write, then you shall know the wonders of the written word.

Find your quiet center of life and write from that to the world.

Everyone has a story within them, let yours out.

We’re all photojournalists now. It’s no longer enough just to write.

If you fail an examination, it means you have not yet master the subject. With diligent study and understanding, you will succeed in passing the exams.

She wrote love with her smile and magic with her eyes.

I was mistaken when I said you live in my heart. How absurd I was when you live in my fingertips so that everything I touch is you. How foolish I was when you live in my toes so that everywhere I go there's you. How senseless of me to say you live in my heart when you breathe in my lungs, walk on my mind, and drink in my mouth. I came to pen another poem for you, but even every unwritten poem is you.

Time unfolds beauty, wonder, and mystery to reveal the auspicious tapestry of life.

Creativity is divine.

Criticism can never instruct or benefit you. Its chief effect is that of a telegram with dubious news. Praise leaves no glow behind, for it is a writer's habit to remember nothing good of himself. I have usually forgotten those who have admired my work, and seldom anyone who disliked it. Obviously, this is because praise is never enough and censure always too much.

Your writing should be filled with simple complexities and complex simplicities. Because that is life.

If you do not write the thoughts of the moments, it is lost forever.

If you can write, paint, or compose without fear, pain, tears or questions, then you are either very blessed or very bland.

Write a daily gratitude.

A lot of people who read my novel 'Smog City' ask me why I never killed off either of the two main characters. To be honest, it's because I've given them life. Not literally of course, but since I spent so much time developing and creating my characters, they've ended up with complex personalities, in fact they're almost sentient in a way, and to write them off as dead would be like killing a close friend to me.

Life is how you brew it. Wake up, you have a story to tell. Don't chase vain glory, your story will tell it. You owe it to yourself to write the lines of your story in the ink of purpose!