Writers Quotes - Page 12

sometimes i wake upin the middleof the nightand findpoetry splatteredall over my bed.

A man does not become a real man by showing his physical domination over women. A man becomes a real man by loving, respecting and protecting women.

Only cowards leave words unspoken.

I added 'writers' to my list of people not to trust. They make everything up.

Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written.

We write, not because we claim to know more than others, but perhaps because we want to know more than others. Writers are explorers

Don't let your past dictate your future,

There is something fascinatingly awkward about an author photo. I'm drawn to those glossy shots in the back of books, mostly because the subjects never look happy to be there.

Always have class but always kick ass.

Looking at old photographs inundates you with a flood of nostalgic emotions! And you can't be sure where you want to swim in the deluge of memories!

Whatever you do, let it be lovely.

A Writer Must Have Text Appeal

I am as disillusioned with the number of likes for one's posts on social networking sites as I am with the number of followers in one's social network. A great number of people liking your work does not prove your mettle as a writer or as an artiste!If my work can affect even one person and make him/her think then I am satisfied as a writer.

The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task.

We have conversations with each other most nights - Sylvia Plath and me!

Climax: It's all downhill from here.

Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.

The writer who position is Christian, and probably also the writer whose position is not, will begin to wonder at this point if there could not be some ugly correlation between our unparalleled prosperity and the stridency of these demands for a literature that shows us the joy of life. He may at least be permitted to ask if these screams for joy would be quite so piercing if joy were really more abundant in our prosperous society.

Everything in art depends on execution: the story of a louse can be as beautiful as the story of Alexander. You must write according to your feelings, be sure those feelings are true, and let everything else go hang. When a line is good it ceases to belong to any school. A line of prose must be as immutable as a line of poetry.

The editorial job has become unlike the ancient age when one judged what one read a job of making judgements on outlines ideas reputations previous books scenarios treatments talk and promises.

In my profession it isn’t a question of telling good literature from bad. Really good literature is seldom appreciated in its own day. The best authors die poor, the bad ones make money — it’s always been like that. What do I, an agent, get out of a literary genius who won’t be discovered for another hundred years? I’ll be dead myself then. Successful incompetents are what I need.

This story was a story of our time. And a writer's attempts not to fathom his time amount but to sounding his mind in it.

Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.

The power of classical music turns my words into fire.

As a writer, self-doubt is useless. Get rid of it, rip it out like a weed and compost it.

You are lovelier than all the roses in the world.

Happiness is individualized. Don't box it in. Let it fly.

His (the writer's) standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention out of his experience should produce a truer account than anything factual can be.

Have the courage to walk in truth, the strength to love always, and the integrity to never stray away from doing so.

Changing imagination into fiction is what I love to do.

Just because we're fictional characters doesn't mean you can pick us up and move us anywhere you want.--the people of Lake Woebegon

In Ruth's view, they looked 'like a couple' because they seemed to possess some terrible secret between them - they appeared stricken with remorse when they saw her. Only a novelist could ever imagine such nonsense. (In part, it was because of her perverse ability to imagine anything that in this instance Ruth failed to imagine the obvious)

It’s a new world. Stand up.

I always wanted to be a writer, and I always wrote something – stories, poetry, articles, newsletters, letters. Most writers can't help themselves! It's a compulsion.

Days may pass into months, months may pass into years, and years may pass into decades, but I will always keep waiting for you.

Quotes are echos of voices transporting wisdom, humor, and love. Returning again to the human condition, fleeting once more as a dove.

Four great adventures; read, learn, write and travel.

Negative experiences repeat as long as they remain useful to you.

If there weren’t so many interesting conversations taking place inside my head, I might venture to speak out loud.

Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don't get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it.

Talented writers etched the story detailing the travails of broken souls numerous times. The poets recounted an equal amount of times the lucent tears of human laughter and weeping sorrow. Everyone understands bitterness and joy. Conversely, the most evocative aspects of human beings, the bewildering clarification of their ambiguous natures, are virtually indefinable and therefore unutterable. Written testaments to love, truth, beauty, and adoration of nature are inherently weak because words fail to convey what a person experiences inside the spaces that compose their chemical field.

Believe in people, they fly for a day. Teach them to believe in themselves, they soar for a lifetime.

I am not learning definitions as established in even the latest dictionaries. I am not a dictionary-maker. I am a person a dictionary-maker has to contend with. I am a living evidence in the development of language.

Poems can getsleepless tooand becomethe loneliest thingin the universe.

People approach writers, assuming we pull a perfect text out of our nose each time (well spelled). Spelling is the least of it.

If you can read & write then the opportunities are endless, if you just believe in yourself then anything is possible, you can become anyone and do anything, what’s more is, you can take others with you!

We all dream dreams of unity, of purity; we all dream that there's an authoritative voice out there that will explain things, including ourselves. If it wasn't for our longing for these things, I doubt the novel or the short story would exist in its current form. I'm not going to say much more on the topic. Just remember: In dictatorships, only one person is really allowed to speak. And when I write a book or a story, I too am the only one speaking, no matter how I hide behind my characters.

I have voices in my headI'm a slave to imaginary peopleI feel what they feelI experience what they experience I live in their world And I'm devoted to translating their storiesI'm not crazy, I'm a writer

How are you going do your writings? How can the others understand you through words describing places, sensations, thoughts, feelings, hope, love, separations on a maze of phrases and paragraphs cemented with your ability to 'knit' your story? Maybe, 'how' is more relevant to provide for your readers a consistent path to build a story from the beginning to the end than 'what' and 'why'. Of course, you are not going to dismiss them. These ones – 'what' and 'why' –, they are pretty damn good too.

You can only write well ,what you have lived.

Be still in peace and reach your highest peak.

Novelists and the literary world play an important part in shaping languages. The Swahili they write influence the readers and their languages. The literary obstacle in Tanzania is not that people do not read, but that they don’t read because there are no interesting writers.

A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid of expansion.

Some people are in misery of carrying the entire world’s pain on their shoulders. They are called writers.

Our stories must be written, shared and communicated.

I am a writer and things which don't happen in real world, happen in my world.

He had let me know time after time that he was a thinking man, a man of intellect and wit. Yet one unintended hungry look into my eyes and he betrayed each of his words he had carefully spoken to me. I knew it in that instant. He was a viscerally driven man. And one day, he would possess me.

...you are a writer the moment you start writing, not when you've sold your first book.

An unpublished writer should doubt themselves. They should constantly wonder whether what they’re creating has merit. And then, having doubted, they should take up their pen and see if they can’t make it better.

You know you're officially an adult when you finally understand WHY Miss Hannigan was drinking bath water.