Writing Quotes - Page 58

Life is a great Book. We are writing the history of our time.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is a rich literature. We are only writing the history of our time.

Lailah Gifty Akita

While victors may get to write history, novelists get to write/right reality.

M.T. Bass

The written word is the greatest sacred documentation.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The written word is greatest sacred documentation.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Tolkien did admit that, 'As a guide, I had only my own feelings for what is appealing or moving.' In other words ~ he wrote about what interested him ~ and despite his protestation of including anything allegorical into his tale, Catholic history and mystic prophecy obviously received its fair share of attention ...

E.A. Bucchianeri

Stop making excuses and start making history.

The mysteries of life enfold with time.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The history of my life is the history of the struggle between an overwhelming urge to write and a combination of circumstances bent on keeping me from it.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I will only mention that the independent power of words to affect the writing of history is a thing to be watched out for. They have an almost frightening autonomous power to produce in the mind of the reader an image or idea that was not in the mind of the writer. Obviously they operate this way in all forms of writing, but history is particularly sensitive because one has a duty to be accurate, and careless use of words can leave a false impression one had not intended.

Barbara W. Tuchman

If the historian will submit himself to his material instead of trying to impose himself on his material, then the material will ultimately speak to him and supply the answers.

Barbara W. Tuchman

One author said "I write because I want to live a footprint in the sands of history.” It's hard to live a footprint in the sands of history when giants are passing through the same sands unless you are one of the giants

Bangambiki Habyarimana

If you would be remembered, write a book worth the reading or live a life worth the writing about.

Benjamin Franklin

Have you noticed how just trying to impose any sort of chronology on events makes it seem as though a lot of time has been occupied?

James Hamilton-Paterson

If writers only dared to dare, a Suetonius or a Tacitus of the Novel could exist, for the Novel is essentially the history of manners, turned into a story and a play, as is History itself often enough. And there is no other difference than this: that the one, the Novel, cloaks its manners under the disguise of invented characters, while the other, History, provides names and addresses. Only, the Novel probes much deeper than history. It has an ideal, and History has none; it is limited by reality. The Novel also holds the stage much longer. ("A Woman's Vengeance")

Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

In any case, Cide Hamete Benengeli was a very careful historian, and very accurate in all things, as can be clearly seen in the details he relates to us, for although they are trivial and inconsequential, he does not attempt to pass over them in silence; his example could be followed by solemn historians who recount actions so briefly and succinctly that we can barely taste them, and leave behind in the inkwell, through carelessness, malice, or ignorance, the most substantive part of the work.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to

David McCullough

No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to

David McCullough

The survival of poor opinions can make a thinker feel as though he is failing humanity.

These Hoes Just Gon Fuck Who Ever Poppin , You Better Be Careful, When you fuck em' Raw!

Genereux Philip

BLACK IS SO FUCKIN' BEAUTIFUL

Genereux Philip

We didn't do anything illegal, All we ever did was be black.. #BlackLivesMatter

Genereux Philip

Fake is the new real,You gotta keep a lot a shit to yourself.

Genereux Philip

If an Artist falls in love with you, you will live forever.

Genereux Philip

If I was meant to be controlled, I would have come with a remote.

Genereux Philip

If ur laptop doesnt smell like fire then ur losing.

Genereux Philip

Don't fuckin' sleep on yourself

Genereux Philip

Bitch, if I ain't a G, I'm an OG

Genereux Philip

I'm the G when you spell OG

Genereux Philip

The hardest part about walking away from someone is the part where you realize that, no matter how slowly you go, they will never run after you.

Genereux Philip

Lila was able to speak through writing; unlike me when I wrote, unlike Sarratore in his articles and poems, unlike even many writers I had read and was reading, she expressed herself in sentences that were well constructed, and without error, even though she had stopped going to school, but–further–she left no trace of effort, you weren't aware of the artifice of the written word. I read and I saw her, I heard her. The voice set in the writing overwhelmed me, enthralled me even more than when we talked face to face; it was completely cleansed of the dross of speech, of the confusion of the oral; it had the vivid orderliness that I imagined would belong to conversation if one were so fortunate as to be born from the head of Zeus and not from the Grecos, the Cerullos.

Every sacred soul must walk and keep the way of God in the wilderness for years, to begin the sacred writings.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Sharpen your life always; even though it will come to an end like a pencil, we have to keep on writing

The only thing a closed book is good for is a table that wobbles. Be an open book.

The more you read, the more you write, and the more you free yourself to do so, the better writer you will become.

Cry while writing it, and readers will cry while reading it.

Reading sparks writing.

How you feel after reading something indicates not what you’ve read but where you are at.

Reading opens up other pockets of the mind.

Once, before leaving on vacation, I copied an entire page from an Alice Munro story and left it in my typewriter, hoping a burglar might come upon it and mistake her words for my own. That an intruder would spend his valuable time reading, that he might be impressed by the description of a crooked face, was something I did not question, as I believed, and still do, that stories save you.

I read and feel that same compulsion; the desire to possess what he has written, which can only be subdued by writing something myself.

Writers: read books. Read good books. Read bad books. Learn what does and does not work.

It feels good to read book. But it is grander to write a book.

Lailah Gifty Akita

If e-book readers were invented before print books, (petty things such as) the smell of ink would have been some people’s only reason for not abandoning e-books.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We sometimes reveal how ignorant or bored we were when we read a book by giving it 5-stars.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A man who wants time to read and write lets the grass grow long.

A book acts as the getaway car when you need to escape.Even when you're the one writing it.

How could I fall asleep, when I love the pleasure of reading and writing at night?

Lailah Gifty Akita

You'll never get to the happily ever after if you don't move past the current chapter...

Reading brings us unknown friends.” — Honoré de Balzac

Susan Parker Rosen

I read to learn from the greats but I write to compete with them.

Jazmin Anguiano

I was behind, but now I'm below. Hopefully, they'll have books wherever I go...

Words will change your future

Jade

All of us possess a reading vocabulary as big as a lake but draw from a writing vocabulary as small as a pond. The good news is that the acts of searching and gathering always expand the number of usable words.

Roy Peter Clark

That’s why people use terms like flow or effortless to describe writing that they regard as really superb. They’re not saying effortless in terms of it didn’t seem like the writer spent any work. It simply requires no effort to read it — the same way listening to an incredible storyteller talk out loud requires no effort to pay attention. Whereas when you’re bored, you’re conscious of how much effort is required to pay attention.

David Foster Wallace

A writer who doesn’t read is like a director who doesn’t watch movies.

A single poem, alonecan turn tidesscatter galaxiesand burst forth with riversfrom paradise.

The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it.

Word porn is the best porn when the imagination is well endowed.

Dez Marie

I'll have enough books when they fill my room like the stars fill the sky.

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