Writing Quotes - Page 115

I know, not everyone will like what I write, but writing is not about trying to please everybody.

Write something today that you future self will be proud of.

He who writes to his beloved every day is not a lover, but a writer.

Don’t break the rules when you haven’t fully figured them out yet.

No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are can be proved. No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.

When I write I am trying to express my way of being in the world. This is primarily a process of elimination: once you have removed all the dead language, the second-hand dogma, the truths that are not your own but other people's, the mottos, the slogans, the out-and-out lies of your nation, the myths of your historical moment - once you have removed all that warps experience into a shape you do not recognise and do not believe in - what you are left with is something approximating the truth of your own conception.

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.

Writing a biography is a delicate—not a reckless—process, where the end result, if done properly, is simply the truth revealed. This delicate and intricate research process has never before been done for Bob Crane, a man with a story worth telling.

At least I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had. Not to preach to them, but to give it to them if they cared to hear it.

Creativity is the most supreme form of love. When it flows from any heart flooded by truth and light, it can change all those who encounter its seductive vibrations.

I’m pretty sure I’m the only author who intends to take the longest possible route to a destination that will always be over the next hill.

It's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.

Between giant spiders and meeting Edmund Ellis did I have a chance, Ms Rainn?

I think it is vanity to want to put into a story anything but the story itself.

I say, flawless poems do not exist.

Don't judge it. Just write it. Don't judge it. It's not for you to judge it.Interview in Esquire Magazine 10/10

If you you write with enough assurance and confidence, you’re allowed to do whatever you like. So write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can.

Cordelia was thinking how human beings can invent words, how they can line up their invented words side by side on paper. It was magic.

The ironic, too-cool meta satire, the sneering and mocking? Is actually just a contemporary version of the bourgeois sentimentality it's trying to mock. It is not new. Really it's almost quaint. The backlash has already outlasted it.

She continued weeping until the heat of her tear water, the sheer velocity of its flow, finally obscured the already vague circumstances of its origins.

Both reading and writing are experiences--lifelong-- in the course of which we who encounter words used in certain ways are persuaded by them to be brought mind and heart within the presence, the power, of the imagination.

Try being an indie author, a minority author, a woman, and a person with health issues in the world of traditional - that's where you are clearly 'different' and marginalized. I am all of that, yet I am still here and smiling. Life is good!

Ending a series is a difficult one .......where should a story that you have followed for so long end? When do you step away from the characters and let the readers decide their fate from there? When they can stand on their own is my only answer for that.

Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human condition. Writers are either polluters or part of the cleanup.

If it pleases you and you can write at all, it's gonna please somebody else.

Humankind must no longer permit the lie to be taught to its children.

There is a point at which honesty becomes mischief. That's when your writing becomes irresistible.

In writing, a good guy must never break any of the Ten Commandments. A bad guy must break every one. That's why writing female characters is so much fun. They're not GUYS at all.

To be a writer - write! To be an author - publish! To be a bestselling author - never stop writing!

If you're going to fall in love with anyone, fall in love with a writer. Allow yourself to become immortalised in words.

Because at nightwhen others are sleeping, I drown myself in poetry.

People speak even after their death. Only do speak those who have recorded their speech in writing before they die, the rest go silent forever

To be human is to be broken and broken is its own kind of beautiful.

Preach! Write! Act! Do any thing, save to lie down and die!

The survival of poor opinions can make a thinker feel as though he is failing humanity.

DANCE – Defeat All Negativity (via) Creative Expression.

He found solace in what he wrote. It was an attempt to discover who he was at the moment.

A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest.

I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.

This was supposed to be yesterday. I was sitting on the Cardiff/London train, supposedly about to write this very column, and realising something quite terrible. My head was entirely empty. A vast echoing void. Bigger on the inside, but with nothing in it. You could drop a pebble in my brain and wait for an hour to hear it land. No actually, you couldn't - that would be aggressive and unhelpful, so keep your damn pebbles to yourself.

If you write in the Old World, and against it, your work must die, go missing, be veiled, before it can live the life for which it was destined in the New World.

The artistic creation of the poet, painter, photographer, and writer is a reflection of the artist’s inner world. The agenda of consciousness that spurs all forms of art is not to represent the outward appearance of things, but to portray its inward significance to the creator. A great poem, painting, photograph, and written composition fully express what the creator feels, in the deepest sense, about the distinctively depicted image that captured their imagination.

He wastes his time over his writing, trying to accomplish what geniuses and rare men with college educations sometimes accomplish.

The greatest writers have persistence.

Being an artist doesn't take much. Just everything you got. Which means of course that as the process is giving you life, it is also bringing you closer to death. But it's no big deal. They are one in the same and cannot be avoided or denied. So when I totally embrace this process, this life/death, and abandon myself to it completely, I transcend all this gibberish and hang out with the gods. It seems to me that that is worth the price of admission.

Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a virtue that has to precede all important literature

To shew thee such tokens I have leave; and if thou wilt pray again, and weep as now, and fast even days, thou shall hear yet greater things.

Find beauty in the madness.

Every author however modest keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.

There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write.

The more I learned the less I felt I knew you and I got lost counting stars, I fell dreaming. Sometimes I’d wander away. Maybe I wasn’t ready or maybe it was just a hard time to love. You always reminded me of home and I could never fathom the reasoning behind your smile. Perhaps one day, if we believe enough, we’ll find our way.

Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race

I am a novelist, and my goal in writing a novel is to leave the reader not knowing what to think. A good novel shouldn't have a point.

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. Eye readers we call them. They get the meaning by glances. But they are bad readers because they miss the best part of what a good writer puts into his work.

Writers will happen in the best of families.

If something was worth writing down, it was worth writing down in full. And she had a horror of lists--grocery lists, Christmas card lists, and most grisly of all, to-do lists. Lists, like appointment books, were nails driven into the future. She knew this was an odd objection to be raised by a person whose daily life was utterly predictable, who never threw caution, or anything else, to the winds, who never packed light, because she never packed at all. Still, the future was a sleeping monster, not to be poked.

It was as if I were an oyster and somebody forced a grain of sand into my shell -- a grain of sand that I didn't know was there and didn't particularly welcome. Then a pearl started forming around the grain and it irritated me, made me angry, tortured me sometimes. But the oyster can't help becoming obsessed with the pearl.

They say, poetry is dead. I say, was there ever a time they had a clue of what the state of poetry is?

Libraries are more than just a storage place for books, they are treasure troves filled with creativity and knowledge. And that knowledge can be empowering.