Writing Quotes - Page 54

Read and write. That's the recipe for being a writer.

I had zero idea of what I was doing.. I honestly had no idea where to start. All I knew was I had something I craved to say.. I wanted to create art that lived on longer than I do. Perseverance and teaching yourself, every day through stress and hard work proves shit really does progress without you realizing. One minute you're an amateur, knowing nothing, not even the basics. The next you can put pen to paper, write a song, and create art in such little time! It's crazy beautiful.

scott mcgoldrick

What writing means to me?-Releasing my wolves...(Natasa Alina Culea)

Natașa Alina Culea

By all means, tell the cops about the crazy robot lady with the black leather body suit and the Kill Bill sword. Hope you like straitjackets.

Did you seriously just use the word 'loins'?

Some days I wonder if I stopped writing about him, if I’d love him a little less.

Dominic Riccitello

The self-addressed stamped envelope. The representation of everything that was wrong with the old publishing industry.

Alexei Maxim Russell

If you can't be the poet, be the poem.

David Carradine

For me, writing is exploration; and most of the time, I'm surprised where the journey takes me.

Jack Dann

Show me your shoes, and I shall show you what paths you have yet to walk.

Your words are like mirrors. They may cut, but they also reflect.

To get change, you must first pay for it.

People don’t remember lessons. They remember stories.

I left the bankbecause they wouldn’t deposit my cheque of poems.So I went to the store,but they didn’t acceptmy currency of words.So I boxed all my storiesand took them to charity.But they refused my donation and asked me to give blood instead.I opened the notebooks and made them look, 'What do you think I wrote these in?

Three years later and I’m still writing about you. I don’t know if that says more about you or I.

Dominic Riccitello

Eventually I’ll stop writing about you and it’ll be bittersweet. Not because I’m not in love with you, but because I’ll just love you.

Dominic Riccitello

Life is more than one genre'.

The tragedy of love is in its ending, the blessing—everything else. No love ever deserves to end.

In the very end, all we have left to atone for our faults are words.

I loved you with different words than you knew and that seemed to scare you.

Dominic Riccitello

So what if I fall? I know I will never fallas hard as i fell for you.

I stopped writing in a way they would understand because it wasn’t for them or even him. It was for I to understand, for I to make sense, and for I to let go of it.

Dominic Riccitello

Writing is the only way to change the world without leaving bed.

Lenang Manggala

The paper is my savior, the pen my blood, to words that shed my world.

Anthony Liccione

To be a poet in today’s technological age means to be underrated and at times, ignored. In a world where the noise of industry reigns supreme, the poet’s voice is being drowned out, but it is a voice that is desperately needed. Our words ring out into the atmosphere and calls the masses back to their senses. We must seize this opportunity and remain true to our purpose in society. Ours is a most noble duty, here to represent the misunderstood and underrepresented, and one day, one person will heed the call of our words and the world will be set ablaze!

Truthfully, there're only a handful of people in this world who really get joy from seeing you happy. Most won't care if you’re happy, only if you're miserable like they are. They eat that shit up.

Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world.

You cannot write your character until you know how he or she thinks, until you know what their philosophy is in the world that they occupy.

Don Roff

Look upon the world with wonder.

It’s a new world. Stand up.

You have to validate yourself first, and then you will receive the much-deserved healing validation from the rest of the world.

Don’t wish the world demanded less of you. Rise up and exceed its standards.

Writers wake up the world.

The world is blessed to welcome you.

A great director gives life to a work of art- gives it a heartbeat… a pulse… opens its eyes to the world.

The world is a woven basket. Every stitch counts.

Open your arms to the world.

Film makes me feel less alone in the world.

To my words: There was once a wall between us. Now we walk together and greet the world.

Be what the world needs.

Don’t let the world tell you who you are. You get up and you tell the world who you are.

Positive thoughts shape a positive world.

The world is with you.

How could people not believe in magic when the whole world is made of it?

The story comes, and it is pure story. That's all I set out to write. But I don't believe that we can write any kind of story without including, whether we intend to or not, our response to the world around us.

Madeleine L'Engle

Writing is the easiest way to escape from the real world.

Anna Jean Ouellette

I used to capture the vastness and the immensity of the world and confine it to the limited pages of the parchment.

Hark Herald Sarmiento

Writing has the power of permanence.

His style as a writer places him in the category of the immortals, and his courage as a critic outlives the bitter battles in which he engaged. As a result, we use the word 'Orwellian' in two senses: The first describes a nightmare state, a dystopia of untrammelled power; the second describes the human qualities that are always ranged in resistance to such regimes, and that may be more potent and durable than we sometimes dare to think.

Christopher Hitchens

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

Ursula K Le Guin

[Everything you write is] not simply a collection of words, but a means of influence not to be taken lightly. Let your recipient's emotions be the gondola, and your words, its gondolier.

I make you see things that aren't really there and you believe every word

Genesis Quihuis

In order to protect their good names for posterity, many writers never wrote what they thought or the truth as it stood. That's why truth still lies hidden in matters of power, sex and religion. No wonder they chose to do so, many who dared paid with their heads

Bangambiki Habyarimana

The power of the written word goes way beyond the page on which it is written

Word-Power'Being stuck in my room,I've become a world traveler.If you wonder how...just guess how I've reached you right now

I began writing about power because I had so little.

Octavia E. Butler

... All who have brought about a state of sex-consciousness are to blame, and it is they who drive me, when I want to stretch my faculties on a book, to seek it in that happy age ... when the writer used both sides of his mind [the male and female sides of his mind] equally. One must turn back to Shakespeare then, for Shakespeare was androgynous; and so were Keats and Sterne and Cowper and Lamb and Coleridge. Shelley perhaps was sexless. Milton and Ben Jonson had a dash too much of the male in them. So had Wordsworth and Tolstoy.

Writing barely differs from Talking and Reading. It appoints your hand while they engage your mouth and eyes respectively. The trio need the mind to combine sensible words from a meaningful arrangement of the ‘simple’ A B C to Z.

Olaotan Fawehinmi

When that little clock on my wall says “Olaotan! Olaotan!! Olaotan!!! It’s half past time to write”, I only have three things at my disposal: A pen, A piece of paper, and a crowded mind.

Olaotan Fawehinmi

Frustration of mind can be revel through writing something even if it will be never read.

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