Writing Quotes - Page 38

I've finally decided to write about profit for a changeBut before I really started I already started to feel lameBaby what's it to a beast who manely to money remains untamed

Another segment of society that has constructed a language of its own is business. People in business say that toner cartridges are in short supply, that they have updated the next shipment of these cartridges, and that they will finalize their recommendations at the next meeting of the board. They are speaking a language familiar and dear to them. Its portentous nouns and verbs invest ordinary events with high adventure; executives walk among toner cartridges, caparisoned like knights. We should tolerate them--every person of spirit wants to ride a white horse.

William Strunk Jr.

Bloodchild" is my pregnant man story.

Octavia E. Butler

What’s a TH?”“A Traffic Hazard,” Heeb clarified.“Oh you mean because the woman is so hot she’ll take your eyes off the road?” Narc confirmed.“Exactly.

Zack Love

And as their penile pain began to subside, the two men were able to form more complex thoughts, resulting in a collaborative work: the development of a worldview that might be described as “penilosophy.

Zack Love

Men feel about sex the way vampires feel about blood. They don't just like it, they crave it. That's why vampire stories always have strong sexual undercurrents. A vampire's hunger is simply a metaphor for a man's lust.

Oliver Markus Malloy

What is the perfect peanut butter and jelly sandwich, exactly?” Tess asked, pursing her lips. Erin knew it was her attempt at making light of a heavy situation.“You know, just the right amount of jelly where it doesn’t squish out when you bite into it. Not so much peanut butter that you get all goopy-mouthed. Making the perfect PBJ is an art form. And it has to be fresh white bread, and the best grape jelly and creamy peanut butter on the market. No exceptions.”Tess bobbed her head. “Ah, yes. The dreaded goopy mouth.

Jenny Lyn

I don’t want to believe in boxes or one-way relationships; I’m naïve, you see. I’d rather moon the moon than flip off a friend, but sometimes I flip so I don’t get flipped. And I still think I’m misunderstanding the Golden Rule.

I speak, I speak, and truth at that. Writers are a curious breed: brooding, fickle, alternately loving and hating their work—and each other. You’re my friend? Don’t pick up that pen!

What people dont know about you people create. Imagination is a part of being human. They fill in the unknowns with assumptions and not facts. Every man and woman is a mystery unrevealed.

R.M. Engelhardt (TALON)

Science fiction is not about the freedom of imagination. It's about a free imagination pinched and howling in a vise that other people call real life.

Stand at the top of a cliff and jump off and build your wings on the way down.

My imagination was running amok again. Twice in one night. This never happens when I’m sitting in front of a typewriter.

Copywriting is a design muse, it carves a beautiful masterpiece in an imaginative way.

Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.

Without imagination, there would be no creativity. Without creativity, there would be nothing.

Words are beads on the strings of sentences. So make a beautiful necklace!

Words have the greatest power to inflict everlasting pain. Words have the greatest power to heal the soul.

It was all too easy to make things up, it was like skating on thin ice, it was like doing dainty pirouettes on a brittle crust over water thousands of fathoms deep.

Jostein Gaarder

The magic in writing is not so much using your imagination as it is allowing the reader to uses theirs. When I write a novel I’m not going to hand walk you through each scene. Avid readers tend to have very high IQ’s so I’m constantly aware of, and respect that. I have a tendency to give my readers vivid descriptions of panoramic viewpoints, soft breezes, and the late evening as it scrapes against the emerging night and present this step by suspenseful step. Once I get them to the threshold of that unseen cliff, I shove them off and say, take it from there.

Most of the time it may seem like I'm staring into nothingness, but there's a whole world playing out in my head.

At times I felt that the universe fabricated from the power of imagination had stronger and more lasting contours than the blurred realm of the flesh-and-blood creatures around me.

Bricks without straw are more easily made than imagination without memories.

If your imaginary friends are at all like mine, they’re better off dead.

Let the letters clash forming an invisible meaning of a sunny night, freezing chimney, and silent screams. When words betray you, hold on to your imagination.

Mona Naqi

I wish my brain had an off switch. Maybe that way I could get some sleep.

Without imagination, writing is a stack of lumber, a sack of nails, and a locked tool shed.

Michael J. Kannengieser

Books allow one to jump into another person's imagination while also exploring their own!

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

An imagination submitted to the movement of the Holy Spirit is a powerful tool in the hands of God to write testaments of His glory.

Alisa Hope Wagner

Writing a story is like ruling the world. Except it's even better. How many rulers out there that you know can tell people what they say?

VanillaCreamPie8888

Maybe everyone does have a novel in them, perhaps even a great one. I don't believe it, but for the purposes of this argument, let's say it's so. Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words.

Grabbing readers by the imagination is a writer's job.

A paucity of material can open up just as many possibilities.

I have dreamed of that song, of the strange words to that simple rhyme-song, and on several occasions I have understood what she was saying, in my dreams. In those dreams I spoke that language too, the first language, and I had dominion over the nature of all that was real. In my dream, it was the tongue of what is, and anything spoken in it becomes real, because nothing said in that language can be a lie. It is the most basic building brick og everything. In my dreams I have used that language to heal the sick and to fly; once I dreamed I kept a perfect little bed-and-breakfast by the seaside, and to everyone who came to stay with me I would say, in that tongue, 'Be whole.' and they would become whole, not be broken people , not any longer, because I had spoken the language of shaping.

To write is to feel the dance of your soul swirling in a dream that drips imagination onto paper.

Artistry is the dance of color & form, whether visual, musical, or sparked in the imagination by the written word.

One's writing is good only when the intelligence and the imagination are in equilibrium. As soon as one of them overbalances the other, it's all up; you may as well throw it away and begin afresh.

Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.

Writing opens the door to imagination.

Write it down and it will come alive.

It is not in the gene of an Intellectually blinded person to experience the paradise in the writer's imagination.

Michael Bassey Johnson

I think it is because I have a habit, when I am bored or disgusted with people of stepping suddenly into my own world and shutting the door. People resent this -- I suppose it is only natural to resent a door being shut in your face. They call it slyness when it is only self-defense.

L.M. Montgomery

George Banks and all he stands for will be saved. Maybe not in life, but in imagination. Because that's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.

Walt Disney Company

When you imagine it, feel it, then write it - creation is inevitable.

WARNING: The production of spirit is a very delicate and dangerous procedure. It should be left to the professionals and under absolutely no circumstance be replicated.

Imagination is the real magic that exists in this world. Look inwards, to see outwards. And capture it in writing.

Sometimes one's imagination can be more beautiful than the most picturesque beach.

But, you must remember, whatever you eat, make sure you have at least one bowl of salad with it.

Her intention was to make the crowd aware, if they weren't already, that John was the giant whose shoulders Emily stood on.

Thoughts. Your imagination. The voices inside your head. They're all the same thing and spirit is what fuels it.

With my sometimes blunt indecent vocabulary & very vivid imagination, I wonder if I should be writing "other" kinds of content.

April Mae Monterrosa

When you juice books from a library you are taking the history and imagination that has accumulated over so many years there.

It's in my head now. It's a memory. No camera could have captured what I saw and felt.

If someone knew equally as much about the ins and outs of your home, it would not be your home.

If you work hard all day and all night, something may come of it. You never know, it just might.

He could tell her that dogs used to look like cats and vice versa without a lick of proof and it would change the way she regarded the animals.

You've got to have high expectations to achieve top results.

It is that kind of thinking that is the problem; that movies, video games and the Internet, devices that simply amuse the imagination are more interesting than what a library stocks.

Isn't it true that a well-read book seems more alive to you, Ms Rainn?

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