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Walk in truth. Leave footprints of honesty.

There’s nothing like the gift of understanding.

When we hear our souls speak, we are free.

Every painting tells a story.

Surround yourself with those conducive to you being your highest self.

It’s great to be here.

Love is the universal language.

Everything that is old was once new.

Work with yourself.

I’d rather be a fool than afraid.

Love is the miracle of life.

[EM] Forster was the only living writer whom he would have described as his master. In other people’s books he found examples of style which he wanted to imitate and learn from. In Forster he found a key to the whole art of writing. The Zen masters of archery—of whom, in those days, Christopher had never heard—start by teaching you the mental attitude with which you must pick up the bow. A Forster novel taught Christopher the mental attitude with which he must pick up the pen.

Christopher Isherwood

Great writers teach as well as entertain.

Toni Morrison said, "The function of freedom is to free someone else," and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person or a way of life, tell your story. Risk freeing someone else. Not everyone will be glad that you did. Members of your family and other critics may wish you had kept your secrets. Oh, well, what are you going to do? Get it all down. Let it pour out of you and onto the page. Write an incredibly shitty, self-indulgent, whiny, mewling first draft. Then take out as many of the excesses as you can.

Trust me. What a phrase. Is it a phrase or an idiom? I was never a wordsmith and I was too far along in life to even attempt to tackle a problem as complicated as words. Do writers struggle as much with words as a painter does with his paint and his brush?“Okay,” it is impossible not to trust a beautiful woman. Even macho noir anti-heroes who talk about staying out of trouble and doin’ nothin’ for nobody always get sucked into intricate snares set for them by beautiful women… I would not be an exception.

She had her image… and anything added to that would be mere verse-making. Something might come of it some day. In the meanwhile she had got her mood on to paper—and this is the release that all writers, even the feeblest, seek for as men seek for love; and, having found it, they doze off happily into dreams and trouble their hearts no further.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Don't just write a strong female protagonist. Be one.

Why people become writers??It's logical, they don't have what to do and they are bored and they want to show people a new world. So they create it!Why people watch films??Because they want to feel the taste of the reality!Everything is logical, think before you ask!

The best writers I've read possess oodles of self-doubt, yet claw their way up with each work and remain humble. Boastful ones, not so much.

Don Roff

She lives the poetry she cannot write

I've never tried to be famous or become a bestseller, just rich and remembered. The rest is a bonus.

As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones.

Is every writer's keyboard a spill magnet?

Some days you live in pajamas, and your hair kind-of has that Albert Einstein look.

I want to lay under the blanket of sky and laugh while the stars wink and we write our story.

Listen to what the sky is telling you.

Life tells the most beautiful stories.

Your life should always come with hot fudge, whipped cream, and a cherry on top.

Your life is a story. Write the one you want to read.

The best stories are like the best burgers: big, juicy, and messy.

My evolution as a writer? Mother said "stop talking like that", teachers said "you're weird", readers say "best book ever

Don't annoy your readers by over-explaining--by telling them something they already know or can figure out. Try not to use words like "surprisingly," "predictably" and "of course," which put a value on a fact before the reader encounters the fact. Trust your material.

William Zinsser

Good writing is good writing, whatever form it takes and whatever we call it.

William Zinsser

Why a writer writes? This question is trivial! The important question is this: What he writes?

Mehmet Murat ildan

Thoughts don't have time and space, one need to hold them. The one who succeeds at them becomes a writer.

Santosh Avvannavar

Storytelling is a gift, but writing is a learned art.

The writers themselves … they were pitifully out of context. So self-assured, so assuming, so completely wrong. Unable – any of them – to imagine what might be coming.

The artists are the most powerful ones, the creators, first are the painters, working without words, second are the music composers, and third are the writers.

You have a great advantage as a writer, Monsieur,' said Poirot. 'You can relieve your feelings by expedient of the printed word. You have the power of the pen over your enemies.

Agatha Christie

No matter what I tried to do or become in life, the macabre followed me everywhere I went: In my house, in my head, in my nightmares, on the roughest streets, in the most desolate corn fields, to even areas where many mortals refuse to go.” Until finally one day it dawned on me, and then it all clicked – why fight it.

James Altucher reminds me for Stephen King... when is about Stephen King his 2 sons, probably the one or no,no both they look like him.

You Never Have To Worry About Anything, If You Just Tell The Truth.

He sometimes believed that the compulsion to make fiction was no more than a bulwark against confusion, maybe even insanity. It was a desperate imposition of order by people able to find that precious stuff only in their minds . . . never in their hearts.

I turn sentences around. That’s my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and I turn it around again. Then I have lunch. Then I come back in and write another sentence. Then I have tea and turn the new sentence around. Then I read the two sentences over and turn them both around. Then I lie down on my sofa and think. Then I get up and throw them out and start from the beginning. And if I knock off from this routine for as long as a day, I’m frantic with boredom and a sense of waste. Sundays I have breakfast late and read the papers with Hope. Then we go for a walk in the hills, and I'm haunted by the loss of all that good time. I wake up Sunday mornings and I'm nearly crazy at the prospect of all those unusable hours. I'm restless, I'm bad-tempered, but she's a human being too, you see, so I go. To avoid trouble she makes me leave my watch at home. The result is that I look at my wrist instead. We're walking, she's talking, then I look at my wrist - and that generally does it, if my foul mood hasn't already. She throws in the sponge and we come home. And at home what is there to distinguish Sunday from Thursday? I sit back down at my little Olivetti and start looking at sentences and turning them around. And I ask myself, Why is there no way but this for me to fill my hours?

Writing is something you Do and not discuss. Talk is cheap, wishes are free and a fool is included with every purchase. So spend your time wisely.

...being "rather unique" is no more possible than being rather pregnant.

William Zinsser

Stephen King started to read comics first, I started to watch films and little reading books...Now everything has changed Stephen King reads books and watch films, I read comics, watch films, read books listen to audiobooks...This are two different stories, you were challanged to open them, good job you open them now but can you try to start a new life??To start by opening a new book??Meeting with new characters??With new writers??With one new book which has a story which you haven't heard??Probably, you aren't still ready!

Most writers sow adjectives almost unconsciously into the soil of their prose to make it more lush and pretty, and the sentences become longer and longer as they fill up with stately elms and frisky kittens and hard-bitten detectives and sleepy lagoons. This is adjective-by-habit - a habit you should get rid of. Not every oak has to be gnarled. The adjective exists solely as a decoration is a self-indulgence for the writer and a burden for the reader.

William Zinsser

Writers were as parasitic, she supposed, as the spore itself.

Joe Hill

Writers really don't retire, you know. They have to be taken out and shot.

I'm not a writer, I just express in words!

Ramana Pemmaraju

Some of The Best Writers in The World Died Penniless.

Writers are liars trying to come clean. That’s why the best ones are the most tragic.

Believe None of What You Hear, And Only Half of What You See.

Reflective writing produces distinct rewards. A writer does not claim to live exclusively in the moment. A pensive writer retreats into oneself in noble attempt to meld memory, thought, faith, doubt, and other strong emotions into thought capsules while exploring the inscrutable web of creation.

Kilroy J. Oldster

When Trying To Achieve Your Dreams, Never Let Anyone or Anything Stand in Your Way

Stephen King and Clive Barker can make amazing works, such people's book should be on your list.

Never Take Life For Granted.

There Is A Fine Line Between A Man of God And One Who Serves The Devil.

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