Writing Quotes - Page 53

I felt condemned to obscurity and to celibacy. But when one is driven by passion, one can live on almost nothing, and I was driven by passion for writing. One does not starve in modern, Western societies, and one can do without such amenities as the telephone, a car, entertainment.

Alain Robbe-Grillet

The difference between a fairly interesting writer and a fascinating writer is that the fascinating writer has a better nose for what genuinely excites him, he is hotter on the trail, he has a better instinct for what is truly alive in him. The worse writer may seem to be more sensible in many ways, but he is less sensible in this vital matter: he cannot distinguish what is full of life from what is only half full or empty of it. And so his writing is less alive, and as a writer he is less alive, and in writing, as in everything else, nothing matters but life.

Ted Hughes

There is no correct way to write a novel, or rather, there is only one, and that one way is to make it interesting. That is very easily said, but how do you make your writing interesting?The answer to the question is, that you write interestingly only about the things that genuinely interest you. This is an infallible rule.

Ted Hughes

A life of devotion to one's passion gives us meaning to our life.

Avijeet Das

A writer needs solitude : moments that he can spend in introspection and in reflection. These moments make him pensive and thoughtful and help him write his thoughts with clarity. A life of devotion to one's passion gives us meaning to our life.

Avijeet Das

You need fire, conviction, to write. You can't write out of indifference.

Marty Rubin

A mistake is the name we give to any action in which we perceive a difference between what we intended and what has occurred. Intention fuels every dramatic action, including the writing of dramatic stories, which involves a series of dramatic actions. In the course of writing, or finding, the story that wants to get itself told, it behooves the writer to liberate the characters by finding the faith and courage necessary for setting aside one’s own conscious needs and expectations. Not to do so promotes ‘mistakes’ - i.e: confusion born of some incoherence in the emotional logic of the story). As the writer abandons his/her intentions - no matter how noble they may seem - only then does that most strange and ineffable quality we so casually refer to as ‘the magic’ have a chance of entering the story, and rendering even the ‘mistakes’ stimulating, daring and provocative.

Billy Marshall-Stoneking

Thankfully existing only in SMALL pockets within our discipline, is “intellectual” snobbery. It’s a hushed but ugly truth that people are made to feel not worthy to be among a certain set – didn’t attend the right school or don’t have the requisite abbreviations to follow their name. I know what that feels like. Good thing I'm pigheaded, have a bigger vision and committed to my craft, or I would’ve succumbed to it long ago. That is why when I meet an emerging writer who’s serious about developing their craft, I try to encourage them as much as I can. I say IGNORE the highbrow cliques and prove your mettle by growing, accepting balanced feedback and most of all, creating work that will stand the test of time. Period.

Sandra Sealy

His importance to the century just past, and therefore his status as a figure in history as well as in literature, derives from the extraordinary salience of the subjects he ‘took on,’ and stayed with, and never abandoned. As a consequence, we commonly use the term ‘Orwellian’ in one of two ways. To describe a state of affairs as ‘Orwellian’ is to imply crushing tyranny and fear and conformism. To describe a piece of writing as ‘Orwellian’ is to recognize that human resistance to these terrors is unquenchable. Not bad for one short lifetime.

Christopher Hitchens

Because words have deep meaning, Tweets have power.

Germany Kent

Work, love, courage and hope,Make me good and help me cope!

Anne Frank

Inspiring someone else to follow their dreams is the hope of anyone who has the courage to follow their own.

Dawn Garcia

There is nothing better than expressions in words.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Keep being bold on the page, and in life, and people cannot ignore you forever.

Don Roff

You will have the grace of writing, when you boldly begin to write your first sentences.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The stories I read gives strength to my spirit.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Be ready. Be seated. See what courage sounds like. See how brave it is to reveal yourself in this way. But above all, see what it is to still live, to profoundly influence the lives of others after you are gone, by your words.

Abraham Verghese

I know, not everyone will like what I write, but writing is not about trying to please everybody.

E.A. Bucchianeri

Have the courage to walk in truth, the strength to love always, and the integrity to never stray away from doing so.

A.D. Posey

Writing and prayer are both a form of love, and love takes courage.

Pat Schneider

We all write stories in our minds, but only few have the courage to put them on paper.

Sabine Shah

Sometimes you have to walk through the fire, in order to reach your calling.

Shannon L. Alder

I wish life were a fiction novel. Then everyone would have to do what I say.

Michelle M. Pillow

I would make a HORRIBLE outlaw. I can plan the crime perfectly, but I'd also need to plan the outcomes to make it work.

Michelle M. Pillow

Praise can be your most valuable asset as long as you don't aim it at yourself.

O.A. Battista

Stick to what you know and always be true to yourself. If you do that, your writing will be true, also.

Ashley Chunell

Always write exactly what you’re feeling at the exact moment when writing something like poetry or an emotional novel. Put yourself, pour all emotions into your work…make yourself cry, feel joy if you are writing joyful things, feel lovey if it calls for it…just put your heart and soul into all that you do…then you will be a good writer when you can make whoever reads your work, feel." -Nina Jean Slack

Nina Jean Slack

Fantasy is an excellent platform to shine new lights on old truths.

James D. Maxon

Being a writer means expressing with passion your imagination, nightmares, dreams, experiences and reality through words on paper. You are a successful writer when readers criticize, get emotionally affected by, and praise your written work. As a writer, rejections are paths to success. Being prepared for it is like wearing a powerful armor in battles unknown. Continue to write. It is a writer's mighty shield and weapon.

Sonnia Kemmer

Writing has become more than just a profession, and hobby…it has become a way to express my feelings and pour my entire soul into the pages of my books. Thank God for the little things in life that makes us feel infinite and tranquil…the little things that make way for us to escape reality and enter new worlds that we create. -Nina Jean Slack

Nina Jean Slack

If you're going to fall in love with anyone, fall in love with a writer. Allow yourself to become immortalised in words.

Jamie L. Harding

Maybe all that we are is what people expect us to be.

Robert M. Drake

Every broken piece of me fell on every broken piece of you and when I took the missing parts, like the emptiness of me I saw the emptiness of you and I poured my half upon you to fill you whole. I risked it all just to dream you complete and catch you one day free in the wild.

Robert M. Drake

She had the power to change the world but she couldn't save the one she loved.

Robert M. Drake

That night I didn’t say anything. I just watched you leave and in the end, I just stayed sleeping awake. Somewhere between a sweet dream and a beautiful nightmare, hoping one day you’d return to rid me of the demons you left behind.

Robert M. Drake

technology murdered childhood.

Robert M. Drake

Magic is when you live your life the way you didn’t picture it and leave nothing behind.

Robert M. Drake

Your greatest dreams will always slumber within the vicious depths of fear.

Robert M. Drake

She got inside me with her story. I could feel her flowing in me and far, faraway I related in parallel. Her smile was a reflection of my own brokenness. It defined buried feelings that I could never ignore.

Robert M. Drake

The fear of loving a dog, is knowing one day they’ll be gone and you could never find eyes that express all that you feel.

Robert M. Drake

I wrote her story because she wanted to live forever and I loved her far more with every word, too much! Even in death her life sought out beauty, for her moments were consumed with love and I could never write such a story without her stars flaming in my heart.

Robert M. Drake

Sometimes those we love break us to bind us whole within the transition.

Robert M. Drake

Use love as the only instrument to question the world around you.

Robert M. Drake

The seed of our love will always cube within the wonder of infinite.

Robert M. Drake

To be human is to be broken and broken is its own kind of beautiful.

Robert M. Drake

Maybe one day we’ll find that place, where you and I could be together and we’ll catch our dreams within the waves of change. So hear me, you are not alone.

Robert M. Drake

The chaos in me is the chaos in you. Like the love in you is the love in me. So maybe we’re both a little crazy. Enough to believe we’re found where dreams are born and beneath our faults remain a science, where you and I will run away and leave nothing behind.

Robert M. Drake

Ill love you with every little bit of everything that has ever consumed me and I will forever love you and forever find you in every life time and so on. Until the stars die out and the universe leaps but even then, my love will remain.

Robert M. Drake

The more I learned the less I felt I knew you and I got lost counting stars, I fell dreaming. Sometimes I’d wander away. Maybe I wasn’t ready or maybe it was just a hard time to love. You always reminded me of home and I could never fathom the reasoning behind your smile. Perhaps one day, if we believe enough, we’ll find our way.

Robert M. Drake

She had more of me then I had of myself. We were both wild birds chasing the stars. We’d lose our way and find new places, close our eyes and fall back towards a constellation of dreams. We wrapped ourselves in a blanket of passion and each night we fell deeper without control, into this strange space called love.

Robert M. Drake

An artist must be passionately in love with her art. Obsessed or possessed ― go mad for what you believe in.

Charlotte Eriksson

I wear the universe backwards. I imagine putting stars in my coffee, and sugar in the sky. I imagine going fishing in clouds, and watching the sun hide behind lakes. I'm too busy dancing with my imagination to even tip toe with reality for a second. They say I'm going mad. They're right.

D. Antoinette Foy

As an author, I want to write what I’m inspired to write. Not what my readers want me to write. I feel like the books will ultimately be better if my heart is fully into what I’m writing.

Colleen Hoover

Part of my soul goes into each quote I write. A book of my quotes can be yours for just $19.99.

Ryan Lilly

Quotes are echos of voices transporting wisdom, humor, and love. Returning again to the human condition, fleeting once more as a dove.

Ryan Lilly

A quote is a story, suspended in a sentence and treasured through time.

Ryan Lilly

Yes, its hard to write. But its harder not to.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

It’s not the destination (of seeking the truth) that creates our dignity or integrity, it’s the journey. From Messages From a Grandfather, by Robert Gately

Robert Gately

Reading a good book is an escape to an alternative life, writing a good book is the closest thing to actually living that life.

Chas Scott

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