Writing Quotes - Page 57

We write to give strength to the soul of the spirit.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Be the author of your life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

What prevents you from fully expressing yourself?

Lailah Gifty Akita

Work while you can.

Lailah Gifty Akita

You can either wonder or worry. It is better to choice the former.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Each of us wages a private battle to thrive. Whenever a person fully immerses oneself in life’s aromatic flower garden of pleasures and encounters life’s warship of armor-plated rigors, they blend and bend to make reasonable accommodations for surviving. Scripted and unscripted encounters with superior militant forces bruise us mightily and eventually cut us to the core. Every person’s life contains a minefield of obstacles that function as potential barriers to achieving our ultimate manifestation. The expended labor of continuously hefting oneself over one contentious hurdle after another is what leads a conscientious person onto the path of needing to write in order to create emotional poultices to ameliorate painful wounds.

Kilroy J. Oldster

Each of us is the enactor of our personal saga; we create the phantom of the self. We are the principal character in our personal story, as well as witnesses and reactors to the storylines of other persons whom we adore. We are each the composers of our evolving personal story; we are the protagonist of our personal life story.

Kilroy J. Oldster

In real life, couples bond and war over a million different things. The causes of divorce are like beautiful, unique snowflakes.

Howard Mittelmark

Maybe it's a good idea," said Kathy."Why is that?""Well - you have a British sensibility.""What does that mean?""I just mean people over there might like it." She gestured in the direction of England.

A poetess is not as selfishas you assume.After months of agonising over her marriage of words—the bride—and spaces—the groom,she knows that as soonas she has penned the poem,it’s yours to consume.So, without giving it a think,she blows on the inkand the letters fly awaylike dandelions on a windy day,landing on hands and lips, on hearts and hips.But more often than not,you can easily spotthem trodden and forgotten,becoming sodden and rotten.Yet, she will continue to makewhat’s others to takebecause selfishness is not the mark of a poetess.

All I need to dois place my pen against paperand your lovewrites for me.

Write about fear. Write about pain. Write about heartache and resentment. Nothing worth reading comes from writing what can be said out loud.

I can write about it if I am careful, if I keep it far enough away.

Some people are in misery of carrying the entire world’s pain on their shoulders. They are called writers.

Sometimes at night when the moon is almost full and my hands go numb from writing, I cleanse myself of her poisoned love. I welcome the water, the inevitability of death and embrace the long painful road out of love.

Why are those who knew him, when they pass from the memory of a young man, sensitive and gay, to the work – novels and writings – surprised to pass into a nocturnal world, a world of cold torment, a world not without light but in which light blinds at the same time that it illuminates; gives hope, but makes hope the shadow of anguish and despair? Why is it that he who, in his work, passes from the objectivity of the narratives to the intimacy of the Diary, descends into a still darker night in which the cries of a lost man can be heard? Why does it seem that the closer one comes to his heart, the closer one comes to an unconsoled center from which a piercing flash sometimes bursts forth, an excess of pain, excess of joy? Who has the right to speak of Kafka without making this enigma heard, an enigma that speaks with the complexity, with the simplicity, of enigma?

Maurice Blanchot

Writing fluency sometimes needs an intense agony somewhere in your mind

I was born into this torrid world a degenerate, eternally condemned a vessel of belligerency, destined to one day end. But despite my mortal disposition, I possess my voice. I have that which is gifted to me from the bosom of the gods. The beauty of self-expression. And through this gift I will come to know and share the true nature of reality

Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of your head driving you nuts, you may not do anything. It's not a good arrangement. If I were God, I wouldn't have done it tha

Cormac McCarthy

A pen, a piece of white paper, and an idea can create a new you.

Debasish Mridha

I don’t want to write a book which will bring me fame for just an hour. I will try to write something which may not be very popular but it may last forever.

Debasish Mridha

In the moments of adversity, we engaged our minds on beautiful thoughts, our spirit on spirituality and our hands on inspiration writings. What a good trade of pain for peace of mind?

Lailah Gifty Akita

Take a deep breath. Inhale peace. Exhale happiness.

In love there is truth, and in truth there is peace.

Find peace in knowing.

Explore your own peace.

Walk into the unknown with what you know in your heart.

The flower doth not worry, and the tree doth not waver.

Love is the answer.

Music is a writer's heartbeat.

A pen name is a nickname.

Every traveler should make their own observation.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Creativity begins with a walk with nature.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Creativity is nature. Nature is creativity.

God writes love and speaks poetry.

I am extremely happy walking on the downs...I like to have space to spread my mind out in.

...there are no new themes for a writer, only new ways of setting down old themes, new eyes to wander among old rocks.

As human beings we’ve certainly suffered the loss of awe, the loss of sacredness, and the loss of the fact that we’re not here— we’re not put on earth— to shape it anyway we want... You want something to happen with poetry, but it doesn’t make anything happen. So then somebody says, “What’s the use of poetry?” Then you say, “Well, what’s the use of a cloud? What’s the use of a river? What’s the use of a tree?” They don’t make anything happen.

I’m likely to stay here, pen in hand, until dusk comes and my writing melts into the twilight.

When describing nature, a writer should seize upon small details, arranging them so that the reader will see an image in his mind after he closes his eyes. For instance: you will capture the truth of a moonlit night if you'll write that a gleam like starlight shone from the pieces of a broken bottle, and then the dark, plump shadow of a dog or wolf appeared. You will bring life to nature only if you don't shrink from similes that liken its activities to those of human

True wit is nature to advantage dressed;What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

As some people turned to religion for comfort, so, Highsmith wrote in her notebook in September 1970, she took refuge in her belief that she was making progress as a writer. But she realised that both systems of survival were, however, fundamentally illusory. She wrote, she said, quoting Oscar Wilde because, 'Work never seems to me a reality, but a way of getting rid of reality'.

Fantasy, an unflagging optimism is necessary for a writer at all stages of this rough game. A kind of madness is therefore necessary, when there is every logical reason for a state of depression and discouragement. Perhaps the fact that I can react with utter gloom to this is what keeps me from being psychotic and keeps me merely neurotic. I am doing quite a good day's work today. But I am also aware of the madness that actually sustains me, and I am not made more comfortable or happy by it.

Patricia Highsmith

I don’t want to be remembered for my work. I want to be remembered for my love.

Prof. Gerd Gleixner said “ Lailah recommend that you work every morning on the dissertation in order to meet the deadline. There are only 4 weeks .

Lailah Gifty Akita

Writing is a worthwhile work.

Lailah Gifty Akita

You may be born thousands of years from today, but I really love and care about you. You are my kin and my reflection. Through my writings I want to change humanity for the better so that you can live and enjoy a better life. That is my purpose in life.

Debasish Mridha

She said that her job as a writer of fiction was to report on the human condition, to tel us who we are and what we think and what we do.

Elizabeth Strout

The purpose of life is to become acquainted with the deepest recesses of a person’s own mind by reflecting upon what a person reads, witnesses, and personally experiences. Wisdom is a form of power. Lacking knowledge of the world and without comprehending the essence of humanity, we can never know the truth of our own being.

Kilroy J. Oldster

...words can help us to see what is graceful or human where lovelines and humanity seem to fail...

Mark Doty

Perhaps one day someone from a distant land will listen to this story of mine. Isn't this what lies behind the desire to be inscribed in the pages of a book? Isn't it just for the sake of this delight that sultans and viziers proffer bags of gold to have their histories written?

I want to... have fun with writing again. Enjoy my work, enjoy playing with the language and characters like a sculptor plays with clay. But there's this manic focus on numbers--how many books have you written and how many have you sold and it's all push, push, push, and no time for reflection--but at heart, books are about dreaming... which is just the opposite. So I don't know... M.M. Bennetts comment to Nancy Bilyeau as related in Nancy's tribute "M.M. Bennetts: The Closest Friend I Never Met

History is a succession of things that ought never to have happened, and the writing act is a kind of revenge against this.

Breyten Breytenbach

Any experience, which is not written, will be lost in time. Rich literature is lost forever.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The present is never tidy, or certain, or reasonable, and those who try to make it so once it becomes the past succeed only in making it seem implausible.

William Manchester

Hanging out is good historical methodology.

Upon reading, great stories by Great Spirits, the glorious inspiration penetrated our soul; we can’t help but to shed tears. It was a soul soothing and a deep spiritual awaken.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The greatest literature is the Biblical stories.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The story we write today will support the next generation.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Historical gap is created due to missing written records.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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