Writing Quotes

No wonder I stopped keeping a journal. It was like keeping a record of my own stupidity. Why would I want to do that? Why would I want to remind myself what an asshole I was?

Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Like good reading skills, good writing skills require immersion and imaginative engagement.

And I thought Ereaders could not become any more dreadful.

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

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Originality is the most deadly mirage in all of art. You can chase it from now until doomsday, and you'll only find yourself lost and dying of thirst.

Caitlín R. Kiernan

Don’t try to present your art by making other people read or hear or see or touch it; make them feel it. Wear your art like your heart on your sleeve and keep it alive by making people feel a little better. Feel a little lighter. Create art in order for yourself to become yourselfand let your very existence be your song, your poem, your story.Let your very identity be your book.Let the way people say your name sound like the sweetest melody.

Charlotte Eriksson

Nothing was a natural predator of productive fiction writing like the cell phone. Ditto the laptop. As she had well learned, the laptop could destroy a day.

Elin Hilderbrand

You turn the lights on and off here and if you can’t sleep and want something to read there are books in the living room…” her voice broke off. “Wait. Can you read?”His chin took a slight tilt upward. “Aye,” Faolán replied, his voice cool, “in English, Gaelic, Latin, or French. My Welsh is a bit rusty, and I doona remember any of the Greek I was taught except for words not fit for a lady’s ears. I can also count all the way up to…” He looked down and wiggled his large bare toes, “…twenty.” – Faolán MacIntyre

Shannon MacLeod

Och, lass. Yer going to have to not do that.” Faolán exhaled. “Creeping up on a man is a dangerous thing, and I confess I’m jumpier than most. Yer feet are soft as a cat’s.”“I wasn’t creeping anywhere, I was going to make coffee and this is my house, I’ll creep anywhere I like,” Colleen muttered with a petulant scowl. “But I wasn’t creeping.

Shannon MacLeod

Food shouldn’t be that shade of green, lass.” – Faolán MacIntyre

Shannon MacLeod

Your life should reflect your heart.

Write down your goals and let it be your guidepost.

Lailah Gifty Akita

And so I just kept writing to myself.

Kimberly Novosel

...stories want to be told. Stories have a power of their own ... you can't write a story until you've felt it. Breathed it in. Walked with your characters. Talked with them.

Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.

Christina Baldwin

In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder, when the healing grace of authentic spirituality is usurped by the divisive politics of religious organizations, and when broken hearts bleed pain in darkness without the relief of compassion, the voice of an exceptional poet producing exceptional work is not something the world can afford to dismiss.

Aberjhani

There is a master way with words which is not learned but is instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man exceptional hearing, a silent man, when given a piece of paper...

Music resembles poetry, in eachAre nameless graces which no methods teach,And which a master hand alone can reach.

Uniform of a soldier and uniform of a student both are equally needed for the nation.

In general, poor is polite and rich is rude.

Dresses won't worn out in the wardrobe, but that is not what dresses are designed for.

Texting is not talking and a phone is not a friend.

Fashion doesn't make you perfect, but it makes you pretty.

What luck has gave you will probably leave you.

State first, subject second, statesman last.

Greatest irony of life is living in self glory while glorifying God which is the ultimate joy is left behind.

Sometimes your diary is the perfect listener.

Amy Leigh Mercree

Fail soon so that you can succeed sooner.

Glory of the world makes life meaningless. Glory of God fulfills it.

There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.

Shannon L. Alder