Writer Quotes

What I really want is to be recognized as a writer; that someday, my poetry — this is an interesting paradox — would be taught in English classes; for my name, along with my poetry, to exist 500 years from now.

Vulnerability has a strength of its own.

Destiny has answered it call!

I like writing, but I like a lot of things. Maybe out of those things, I'm best at writing. Maybe it's what I like best of all. Maybe it's where I've always felt most at home. Or maybe the writing part of me is over. Maybe there's something else I'm supposed to do instead. I don't know.

One step, two steps, three steps; like winds of time experience joy of centuries, when movements become revelations of the dance of destinies.

She was broken, I think it’s because she loved too much and she was always blind to the fact that love too is sometimes broken.

If a writer falls in love with you, you can never die.

The height of human achievement and glory, Muhammad.

A writer's duty is to draw a picture that expresses more inner beauty, deeper anxiety, and more complex tragedy than a real character ever can.

Identify your divine gift and use it to serve humanity.

Sometimes you have to go a little crazy before you can find sanity. I think I'm close.

Lighten up. Brighten up. Smile.

I haven’t had writer’s block. I think it’s because my process involves writing very badly.

Everything is an echo of something I once read.Dream, hope, and celebrate life!Love always comes back in a song.One thing we all have in common is a love for food and drink.Memories never die, and dreams never end!What is time?

Let your story grow. Let it surprise you, and it will certainly surprise your readers.

If you live with dogs, you'll never run out of things to write about.

I am no writer. Her sparkling eyes made my fingers write words in the sand. Her radiant smile made my pen write words in the air. Her beautiful soul made my typewriter type poems for eternity. I am no writer.

Pain writes the words, sorrow wields the pen, tears wet the paper, and the story mends the heart.

It is an awesome tragedy in this life that, when asking what a person is and they reply doctor or lawyer or engineer, we don't say "Well thats a nice little hobby, but why don't you take up writing or painting or music?

But dear, don’t be afraid of love it’s only magic.

Word-Power'Being stuck in my room,I've become a world traveler.If you wonder how...just guess how I've reached you right now

When a chap is passionate, the readership can sense it.

Among the responsibilities of any writer is that, no matter what else, they know what they mean. So, even if no one else knows what you're talking about, you do. The listener can sense that, even if they don't get the literal meaning. The faith that they place in the clues and the connections and the secrets of the lyrics is of the utmost importance.

You might say “no, you will never do that, that’s not you, not who I know, not who I thought you were”, and I will say "watch me".

Use love as the only instrument to question the world around you.

Are you sorry? Do you wish you could do it all again and go off and write novels instead of being a teacher?No. You can’t trade what is for what might have been.

I am a worried person with a stressed out soul, living a simple life with no capital.

Sometimes, when it’s going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationery. The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall of a cell. Emma is lost on anything less than 120gsm.

I write because the security of your love allows me to develop my craft without concerning myself with trivialities — as if your love could be any more complete. But I write, in the first place,because of you, my muse. I write for your green eyes to glance at my humble words and for the pleasure of hearing you utter them.

You have a great talent and a great role in the world.

I was a woman and did not yet think of myself as a writer. I was a mapmaker.

To be honest, I love watching some of the old cartoons and new ones that are popular. It's another way to make me happy and reminisce the good old times. Plus, it makes me forget the recreational world around me. If only the economy would let loose and not tire everyone out. I'm just saying. People have an inner child somewhere. I have one, too. So it's cool to have an inner child at times. It can brighten your day and see another view in life.

To write is human, to receive a letter: Devine!

She doesn't understand that a writer is a special creature--that I'm different from everyone else. I'm not saying I'm superior to other people, just more sensitive, I guess.

He drinks his coffee tentatively, glancing at me every few seconds, watching me. Every time he glances in my direction, I quickly turn away though he obviously knows I'm watching him. I know he's wondering why I'm staring at him, but he doesn't ask.I finally take a sip of coffee, set the mug back on the table, and voice what's on my mind, "I want to draw you.

Don't say you're a writer if you're not writing. Even if you're writing, don't call yourself a writer. Say instead, 'I write.' It's the verb that's important, not the noun.

This mind is continuous and ever taxing, Sleep is an endeavoring luxury for the carnivorous mind

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

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

Dance resides within us all. Some find it when joy conquers sorrow, others express it through celebration of movements; and then there are those... whose existence is dance,

See my blog at crossedeyesanddottedtees.wordpress.com for more of my writing.

Writing is the only way to change the world without leaving bed.

Language is the source of misunderstandings.

The highest privilege of being a writer is being able to say, 'open your mind to me and I'll take you to another world.

IN LIFE ONE MUST LEARN HOW TO WASH THEIR OWNBACK

I had feared this end, wondered where I would go from it, from the moment I first stepped on this footpath in the desert. But I found I was not afraid of reaching it now. I was happy. I hadn't found every answer for where I was going, but I now had all I needed to take these next steps. I knew I would do what I needed to become a writer now.

Her words are her wings. She's flying.

I MUST BE A TIME TRAVELLER BECAUSEI AM ALWAYS AHEAD OF MY TIME

It's rather disconcerting to sit around a table in a critique of someone else's work, only to realize that the antagonist in the story is none other than yourself, and no one present thinks you're a very likable character.

I came to pen another poem for you, but even every unwritten poem is you.

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.

You have to invest yourself as a reader to be a good writer.

...the making of stories is only one part of my craft -mainly, I'm a heart whisperer...

Beware, then, of the long word that's no better than the short word: "assistance" (help), "numerous" (many), "facilitate" (ease), "Individual" (man or woman), "remainder" (rest), "initial" (first), "implement" (do), "sufficient" (enough), "attempt" (try), "referred to as" (called), and hundreds more. Beware of all the slippery new fad words: paradigm and parameter, prioritize and potentialize. They are all weeds that will smother what you write. Don't dialogue with someone you can talk to. Don't interface with anybody.

The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running inside his head, literally for years.

Whenever any of these new writers come up who are brilliant, I always realize that you have more talent and more skill than any of them;---but circumstances have prevented you from realizing upon the fact for a long time. [About F. Scott Fitzgerald]

Writers who copy or plagiarise others are dreaming in another man’s sleep.

Only a writer can ride a time machine and change the future when he is not there.

Black is beautiful .Black isn’t power. Knowledge is power. You can be black as a crow or white as snow but if you don’t know and you ain’t got no dough, you can’t go and that’s for sho’.

Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing & love me for my writing. It is also much more: a way of ordering and reordering the chaos of experience.