Writing From The Heart Quotes

Words are the bones. Writing is the lungs. Reading is like breathing.

Don’t write what you know—what you know may bore you, and thus bore your readers. Write about what interests you—and interests you deeply—and your readers will catch fire at your words.

Valerie Sherwood

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.

André Gide

When I have written my last word, I will have taken my last breath.

Paige Skyler

When you have nothing left to lose, it's easy to dive deep into those deep, dark hidden places and write your truth. I'm there.

Lori Lesko

I would rather trust a person than a crowd.

Nikhil Sharda

Where do storytellers find the wisdom to discover their own stories? From no place more mysterious than their own hearts.

Marion Dane Bauer

My advice to writers is this:Walk, talk, breathe, laugh, cry, fall, rise, fail, succeed, run, jump, love, hate, hide, seek, learn, work, play, feel, LIVE.Then write it down.

S. Alex Martin

Always carry with you a pen and a notebook or a journal to write the thoughts that flashes in a moments.

Lailah GiftyAkita

Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end it's about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life as well. It's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy. ...this book...is a permission slip: you can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will. Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.

Stephen King

My sincere desire is to write in a style that is simple enough for a child to understand, yet powerful enough to change lives.

Rev. Lorna Lorraine Wilson

I can't wait to get back to writing today so I can see what happens next Kim Cormack

Kim Cormack

...the secret to writing is to get your own pain - shout it out till it hurts your throat - weep it into your pillow - then write it down ...

John Geddes

In quickness is truth. The more swiftly you write, the more honest you are. In hesitation is thought. In delay comes the effort for a style, instead of leaping upon truth which is the only style worth deadfalling or tiger-trapping.

Ray Bradbury

You write what you know, and I know rock and roll.

Greg Kihn

Set fire to cities and nations, to hearts and minds, to the very core of every human spirit. Make sure your words seep into the skin of the reader, leaving trace minerals that sustain the ailing human shell. Make them pay attention. Set fire to the soul. Anything less is an abomination to creation.

Susan Marie

The last chapter in 'Alice in Worcestershire' is called 'Writing the book'.I started to write that 'Diary' chapter at the very beginning of the process and followed it through to the end... speaking to the reader.My decision to do this was because I've often read autobiographies and wondered how the author felt and how it impacted them writing about painful memories that had been locked away in a deep forgotten place.I wanted to know what was going in their 'present' life while they were writing; about the struggle with sharing their inner secrets and... I'm... inquisitive. (nosy)!It took me over five years to finish 'Alice in Worcestershire' because sometimes, I was simply too drained to continue. Periodically, I updated the 'Diary' chapter and, thankfully, it's enthusiastically appreciated by readers.

Eskay Teel

I like to think I’ve written something worth reading when I cry the tears of the characters.

Carla H. Krueger

Writing is taking human experience and wrapping it up into a package of your own ideas and hoping someone will pull the bow smiling on top to see what's hiding inside.

Roderick Vincent

I also know that not everyone will like what I do, and that there are many people who do love my work, and so I write for them, and for my own pleasure, and try not to brood too much over those who have different tastes. And I have written enough books now that I know the self-doubt and the anxiety are part of the creative process, and drive me to keep trying to do better, and keep me from becoming too cocksure about my writing, which is a form of creative death.

Kate Forsyth

What happened was that sometimes I was, from a young age, put in the theater to watch movies because they kept me quiet and they kept me entertained, and they got me out from under the feet of my parents. So from a very early age, I went to the movies and I soon grew to prefer the life of the movies to my own life. The reality that the movies offered was preferable to the reality that I was experiencing. I became a child movie addict. I would go in with great pleasure and I'd never look at what was playing -- what was playing was unimportant. The fact was that I was entering a new world, an environment where not only was it much more attractive than my life was ordinarily, but also I could manipulate it to an extent by coming and going, and by looking at scenes or not, which I could not in my own life. I was subjected to my own domestic life. But I discovered a kind of power at the movies.

Donald Richie

I have wrought my simple planIf I give one hour of joyTo the boy who’s half a man,Or the man who’s half a boy.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Indentations on the page, words, my friends, and I will share them with you.

Victoria Sawyer

I live, love and loathe my characters. They stole my mind. They stole my heart.

Carla H. Krueger

What do you do when your head - your imagination is filled with tales to last a hundred lifetimes?You focus on the really good ones!

Storm Princeholm

The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us regain our equilibrium.

Norbet Platt

I’m an observer. I am fascinated by people and how their minds work (and, of course, my own). Why we are the way we are, why we do the things we do – and that interest drives my writing. I was a physicist before fiction claimed my soul, so I’m an experimenter. I’m open to different ways of thinking. I like exaggerating, making things up. I’m a very open, honest person in life and that’s the way it should be, but when it comes to fiction, I want to pour a few sharp objects into the comfort zone. Our fears are powerful, yet we’ve all got a desire to laugh and be entertained. I could have followed the same path I do now as a scientist, examining how the brain works. Ironically I get much more freedom to experiment as a writer. That’s why I love it.

Carla H. Krueger

When I write, I write obsessively. I try to pace myself, but some fires are too hot to put out.

Carla H. Krueger

If you're doing it right... you should feel while you're doing it that you're revealing a little too much of yourself.

Neil Gaiman

Writing is more about telling other peoples' stories than your own

Carla H. Krueger

A real piece of writing is one in which the writer has tried to enrich not only the book, but also his understanding of the words. The words themselves have to be open to new ideas and suggestions, and the writer himself must have the audacity to attempt new things and to risk failure

Karl Wiggins

Every one of the big breakthroughs in the art of literature have possibly started as what many would call a ludicrous or even laughable idea as the writer occasionally balances a routine piece with an investment in the eccentric and untried. Over time, the reward is usually worth the risk

Karl Wiggins

Fiction gives us a reach into the lives of individuals that would otherwise be but a closed door. If we are gifted with a desire to tell tales, then we should tell them . . . if only to reach but a few.

James D. Maxon

Words are the writer's sorcery, our dark arts and our sleight of hand. They're our enchantment and our temptation

Karl Wiggins

No one can tell you what you can and cannot put in your book. So be brave and just write!

Chrys Fey

When I write, I try to represent the voices of people I've known who had no voice.

Carla H. Krueger

Celebrate your day of birthday as special day.Make a specific birthday wishes and write it down.You will be amazed about the power of pen and inner strength to accomplish the wishes.This will be a special gift for yourself on each birthday.

Lailah Gifty Akita

There is just too much cruelty, selfishness and corruption in the world not to want to crush the poisonous will of those who cause it by writing about it as powerfully as I can.

Carla H. Krueger

I want to question societal norms, encourage people to think in new ways.

Carla H. Krueger

My pen beats faster as I write with my heart

Munia Khan

Each time I write, I reaffirm my soul.

Rob Bignell

Writing heals my heart like no pill ever could.

Rob Bignell

Though this child came in with nothing but excess baby fat, chemical brain waves, and mother and son bodily toxins on his legs, he had a fate fit for a modern day demigod.

David Scheier

May be its a good idea to write something about you in my book... At least then, there will be a place where we will meet everyday... and be together forever!

Anamika Mishra

Write and your experiences with others. Never underestimate your writings. It can bring hope and inspiration to many people.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Every book has its ancestors

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Writing is exposing yourself to strangers

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Writing is a competition between the writer and the page. When the page wins, you fail as a writer.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

I am sorry, I am not a writer. I simply put my thoughts on paper. Those helped by them call them a book and me a writer. Those who are not helped call it rubbish and me a fool. Both have reason.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

One day I will write a book. An epitaph

Bangambiki Habyarimana

I don't write to chase away my demons ~I wield my pen as a weapon...calling those bastards to war!

Muse

We are inspired by divine power to write.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The grace of writing is upon me.I love writing. I write daily.

Lailah Gifty Akita

We can create transcending stories for readers and for us. Creativity is a double edge sword, which can kill the writer.

Rossana Condoleo

When I write sometimes I strike gold, sometimes I labor in vain and keep producing rubbish

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Don't believe in everything that is written. Not everything that is written is true

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Writing is magic happening on paper

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Every book is worth reading. If it cannot make you wiser it will make you a critic

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Today almost everybody is a writer, the enormous publish button on blogs and websites begs you everywhere to click on it! And bam you are a writer. To hell with agents and publishing houses and rejection letters. Immortality for you is on the click of a mouth! We are advancing at the speed of light! You can become an author at 140 characters. To hell with long winding sentences and long hours of scratching the head, the immortals of today instantly get a "like" and they instantly enter the pantheon! They seat side by side Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, St Paul, Buddha, Martin Luther, Rousseau, Bangambiki…

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Writing is self-pleasure

Bangambiki Habyarimana

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