Amwriting Quotes

This whole show vs tell concept both bewilders and challenges my mind.

There's a darkness to everyone, you just have to let it out to see the world in new eyes.

I learn my world through writing.

Charlotte Eriksson

Don't think about the writing process too much. Just do one thing: tell the motherfucking story.

Don Roff

Whenever I encounter writer’s block, I stop writing … with my hands; and I then start writing with my legs.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It’s easy to write a sentence, paragraph, or book. What’s difficult is writing the best sentence, paragraph, or book, you can write.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

With poetry and writing, the question isn’t “do you know the right words?”.The real question is, “can you make words from the unwordable, chisel blocks of raw silence into shapes and touch our souls?

Writer's block is just another name for fear.

She had an ability to love that went beyond my ability to grasp the slightest concept of what love was.

I would like to write my life story, but it seems to write itself.

You cannot write your character until you know how he or she thinks, until you know what their philosophy is in the world that they occupy.

Don Roff

If e-book readers were invented before print books, (petty things such as) the smell of ink would have been some people’s only reason for not abandoning e-books.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We sometimes reveal how ignorant or bored we were when we read a book by giving it 5-stars.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Some artists benefit less from being interviewed than they do from being left alone.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

What I've learned about writing is that sometimes less is more, while often more is grander. And both are true.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Some writers write to forget. Some forget to write.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

To fully encapsulate my creativity, I read to inhale, write to exhale. The whole process helps me breathe story.

Ace Antonio Hall