Writing Quotes - Page 65

My plan is to continue teaching many more years than the 32 years I've already enjoyed and continue writing, and promoting my books and websites if it's God will.

the art of reading, it occupies your mind no matter at any situation or mood you're in..bringing you to completely different world, the enchanting world of the characters..giving you the best feeling after reading it..the art of writing, it shows who you are, what are your real passions, what you've been through..inviting other people to see and experience your own world..hoping they have the best feeling that you have when writing it. As much as the feeling you always have when you read the books you've read before..

Asrie Budiasriati

To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.

Hugh Laurie (playing Mr. Palmer) felt the line 'Don't palm all your abuses [of language upon me]' was possibly too rude. 'It's in the book,' I said. He didn't hit me.

Learn as much as you can. Take every opportunity to learn about writing, whether it’s through classes, workshops, whatever is available to you. This may be difficult, because things like classes, workshops, writing programs, require time and money. But I say this honestly and somewhat harshly – if you’re not willing to prioritize your writing, perhaps you should do something else?

...we have, each of us, a story that is uniquely ours, a narrative arc that we can walk with purpose once we figure out what it is. It's the opposite to living our lives episodically, where each day is only tangentially connected to the next, where we are ourselves the only constants linking yesterday to tomorrow. There is nothing wrong with that, and I don't want to imply that there is by saying how much this shocked me -- just that it felt so suddenly, painfully right to think that I have tapped into my Long Tale, that I have set my feet on the path I want to walk the rest of my life, and that it is a path of stories and writing and that no matter how many oceans I cross or how transient I feel in any given place, I am still on my Tale's Road, because having tapped it, having found it, the following is inevitable....

In fiction, I exercise my nosiness. I am as curious as my cats, and indeed that has led to trouble often enough and used up several of my nine lives. I am an avid listener. I am fascinated by other people's lives, the choices they make and how that works out through time, what they have done and left undone, what they tell me and what they keep secret and silent, what they lie about and what they confess, what they are proud of and what shames them, what they hope for and what they fear. The source of my fiction is the desire to understand people and their choices through time.

The irritating question they ask us -- us being writers -- is: "Where do you get your i

My fingers burn behind the keys of my typewriter, the lettering fading with every thoughtful strike. The many words I write I dare not stall; my mind perpetually alert for my magnum opus call.

A.K. Kuykendall

What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working m

My potential salvation...must remain an unswerving commitment to treat generality only as it emerges from little things that arrest us and open our eyes with "aha" -- while direct, abstract, learned assaults upon generalities usually glaze them over.

Stephen Jay Gould

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or

Dorothy L. Sayers

There are always messages, even enigmas to be searched, mysteries to be solved in all of my books. I like to puzzle readers, but I do not make so to the point of being so complex that they will lose interest in the plot. And that for me is the essence of every great literature around the world, and that’s been so for ages.(....)Some were inpired by real life characters, some other books I wrote are hybrid fiction/non-fiction, so I pretty much get inspired by people who have lived, and even who are still breathing among us… so don’t get discouraged if I didn’t mention your personality traits yet. I might even have your name over my books, I must some day…

Ana Claudia Antunes

Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published.

As Gabe continued to speak, he sounded to be a cheerful and intelligent person, two attributes I have commonly found associated with people who spend most of their time outdoors.-from New River, in the anthology AWAKE IN THE WORLD

My potential salvation...must remain an unswerving commitment to treat generality only as it emerges from little things that arrest us and open our eyes with "aha" -- while direct, abstract, learned assaults upon generalities usually glaze them over.

Stephen Jay Gould

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or

Dorothy L. Sayers

There are always messages, even enigmas to be searched, mysteries to be solved in all of my books. I like to puzzle readers, but I do not make so to the point of being so complex that they will lose interest in the plot. And that for me is the essence of every great literature around the world, and that’s been so for ages.(....)Some were inpired by real life characters, some other books I wrote are hybrid fiction/non-fiction, so I pretty much get inspired by people who have lived, and even who are still breathing among us… so don’t get discouraged if I didn’t mention your personality traits yet. I might even have your name over my books, I must some day…

Ana Claudia Antunes

Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published.

As Gabe continued to speak, he sounded to be a cheerful and intelligent person, two attributes I have commonly found associated with people who spend most of their time outdoors.-from New River, in the anthology AWAKE IN THE WORLD

People represented in book or film travel vast oceans of life unrecorded; studeo time costs money, and pens grow heavy.

Personal writing takes up where public education leaves off – with intent to know what is important about life.

Kilroy J. Oldster

Every impression ever made on a person from newborn babyhood onwards will contribute to the shape and texture of the imagination.

Lesley Glaister

i just know no one is a friend like writing .

Writing can be a long and winding road or a straightforward march to the finish.What matters is that you enjoy the journey.

If you surrender to your imagination, the story will write itself.

You are not the writer. You are the story being told from The Writer.

Richard Wisniewski

Thoughts are ideas scattered in your head. When written forms a sentence. When rhymed, it forms a phrase and singing it blooms a beautiful poem.

Ymatruz

I prefer to be on the side of losers, the misunderstood or lonely people rather than writing about the strong and powerful.

You can best write about your own experiences.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Hold on, and dont put us on hold

I wonderif you ever read my poemsand wish they were writtenfor you.

In this world there are two types of people: the ones who hurt, and the ones who are hurt. But if we all claim to be the victims, then aren't we all the criminals too?

Polkadot

Despite the experiences that put me in the spotlight as the co-creator of my wisdom, the human part of me keeps burning, like an alchemical process that I both accept and want to refuse. You see, it's hard when I notice women falling in love with me, and then destroying everything at the same time. And so, I'm changing the world as much as this world is changing me. The two things are inseparable.

Robin Sacredfire

Until you begin to write, then you will see the beauty of writing.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The sacred-souls of authors are displayed in the beauty of their books.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I see the beatitudes of books displayed on a bookshelf.

Lailah Gifty Akita

We write to share our thoughts and our lives.

Lailah Gifty Akita

We encounter great souls by reading great books.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Curiosity is the beginning of all creativity.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The power of the pen is landmark of life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is a book. Do you not realise we are writing the history of our time?

Lailah Gifty Akita

May you will have the grace to complete the task.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Read a short story every day. By the end of the week you would have read volumes of stories.

Lailah Gifty Akita

How would you document the history of today?

Lailah Gifty Akita

Great books make a great life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I love to read.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Until you take a pen to write, then you will see the miracle of writing.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Max sent Scottie some literary advice, the same dictum he gave every college student who called on him. He stressed the importance of a liberal arts education but urged her to avoid all courses in writing. "Everyone has to find her own way of writing," he wrote Scottie, "and the source of finding it is largely out of literature.

The greatest occupation is the act of writing.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Be daring to push your ideas forward.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Every child must be taught how to think, read and write.

Lailah Gifty Akita

A stream of thoughts flows through one’s mind at a sacred-time.

Lailah Gifty Akita

You ought to stop everything and write the sacred-words as its flashes in your mind.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Sacred-thoughts flashes in your mind at sacred-time. If you don’t write it immediately, it will be forgotten.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Write down your goals and let it be your guidepost.

Lailah Gifty Akita

We can do what we ought to do, only by great grace that comes from God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

You ought to write down your goals. It serves as a guidepost and gives strength for purposeful action.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Clear visions and positive goals, leads to positive actions and purposeful life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Without visions and written goals, what direction are we going to head?

Lailah Gifty Akita

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