Writing Quotes - Page 8

Content is not king – relevant, timely and authentic content is king

Bernard Kelvin Clive

Conditioning was something I always shied away from, now I've learnt that training never stops.

It takes a lot of practices to get it right. The key is to keep practicing.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Winter teetered on the verge of succumbing to the returning sun, but today the breeze still preferred the touch of snowflakes

Rue

Fear will do one thing and one thing only: hold you back

Look at that," he said. "How the ink bleeds." He loved the way it looked, to write on a thick pillow of the pad, the way the thicker width of paper underneath was softer and allowed for a more cushiony interface between pen and surface, which meant more time the two would be in contact for any given point, allowing the fiber of the paper to pull, through capillary action, more ink from the pen, more ink, which meant more evenness of ink, a thicker, more even line, a line with character, with solidity. The pad, all those ninety-nine sheets underneath him, the hundred, the even number, ten to the second power, the exponent, the clean block of planes, the space-time, really, represented by that pad, all of the possible drawings, graphs, curves, relationships, all of the answers, questions, mysteries, all of the problems solvable in that space, in those sheets, in those squares.

Writers are influenced by their upbringing and experiences. But they are also influenced by the writings of others, the major historical events of their times and the great public and literary figures to whom they are exposed.

Why Dont You?' wasn't totally absurd to me," Diana said later. "Of course, the columns had a certain absurdity that tickled people -- just to think that anyone would thin of writing anything so absurd. But it wasn't even writing. To me writing--Edith Wharton, Henry James...Proust, for God's sake...is a think of beauty and sustainment. 'Why Don't You?' was a think of fashion and fantasy, on the wing...It wasn't writing, it was just ideas. It was me, insistent on people using their imaginations, insisting on a certain idea of luxury.

Amanda Mackenzie Stuart

I could think, write or tell, instead I Lived and Created Myself!

Ramana Pemmaraju

Sometimes it’s great, and sometimes it’s shit.These are the things all the great philosophersjust won’t tell you flat out about life. You keep moving, keep living, keep breathingAnd you keep writing-creating because that’s what you doAnd that’s who you are. There are no magical voices to guideYou except your own. Make it count.~ R.M. ENGELHARDT

R.M. Engelhardt (TALON)

Despair is a night without lights. Dreams are the sunrise that leads you out of the darkness.

Jason E. Hodges

I like my writing career and it's progression, I'd rather be that slow moving tide that turns a mountain into a beautiful beach for all to enjoy, rather than a flash in a pan that yields no heat.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

Read the lines as if they were unknown to you, and you will feel in your inmost self how very much they are yours.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Anxious, inexperienced writers obey rules. Rebellious, unschooled writers break rules. Artists master the form.

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no

Everyone knows how people who laugh easily create us by their laughter,--making us think of funnier and funnier things.

it was enough just to free the words so that the voices in her head were stilled.

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.

The need to document my insanity is an affliction I have not yet cured myself of...

Urban Fantasy is the orphan left on the doorstep that no-one knows what to do with.

Tracy Cooper-Posey

Writing is dreaming for me, and I can dream most anywhere.

J. R. R. Tolkien, the near-universally-hailed father of modern epic fantasy, crafted his magnum opus The Lord of the Rings to explore the forces of creation as he saw them: God and country, race and class, journeying to war and returning home. I’ve heard it said that he was trying to create some kind of original British mythology using the structure of other cultures’ myths, and maybe that was true. I don’t know. What I see, when I read his work, is a man trying desperately to dream.Dreaming is impossible without myths. If we don’t have enough myths of our own, we’ll latch onto those of others — even if those myths make us believe terrible or false things about ourselves. Tolkien understood this, I think because it’s human nature. Call it the superego, call it common sense, call it pragmatism, call it learned helplessness, but the mind craves boundaries. Depending on the myths we believe in, those boundaries can be magnificently vast, or crushingly tight.

i want to bleed ink and shit prose.

Jonathan Culver

We live, all of us, in sprung rhythm. Even in cities, folk stir without knowing it to the surge in the blood that is the surge and urgency of season. In being born, we have taken seisin of the natural world, and as ever, it is the land which owns us, not we, the land. Even in the countryside, we dwell suspended between the rhythms of earth and season, weather and sky, and those imposed by metropolitan clocks, at home and abroad.When does the year begin? No; ask rather, When does it not? For us – all of us – as much as for Mr Eliot, midwinter spring is its own season; for all of us, if we but see it, our world is as full of time-coulisses as was Thomas Mann’s.Countrymen know this, with the instinct they share with their beasts. Writers want to know it also, and to articulate what the countryman knows and cannot, perhaps, express to those who sense but do not know, immured in sad conurbations, rootless amidst Betjeman’s frightful vision of soot and stone, worker’s flats and communal canteens, where it is the boast of pride that a man doesn’t let the grass grow under his feet.As both countryman and writer, I have a curious relationship to time.

We need to boost each other to get to the top. It is much more effective than stepping on each other.

Show me you care about our common tongue. Bring to your [writing] passion, deeply informed by knowledge of your subject. Stay me, not with apples and flagons, but with wit and grace, humor and intense caring about your discipline. Don't slack, don't give it a lick and a promise, don't make it evident that you posted what was 'good enough for government work,' don't try and fake it. Give it your best, your all, not for pence, but for the love of the craft. Do these things, as these writers and scores I have not named do, bring to your work your self, your heart, your voice, motherly or youthful, lawyerly or priestly, conservative or liberal, it matters not. Do this and I and hundreds of others will return again and again to your work, not merely because we may have a burning need for a new printer or an abiding interest in college newspapers or what have you, but because we wish to spend time with your mind and voice.

Markham Shaw Pyle

All that sweetness makes me feel weird. My sister was never the loving type.

- If you could describe my son in 3 words, what would you say? - Sweet. Cute. Funny. - That could be a description of a puppy she says dryly.

A shrink and a patient in a love-hate relationship. Who is REALLY the boss?

...he was after all, a novelist...and a novelist was simply a fellow who got paid to tell lies. The bigger the lies, the better the pay.

There should be more to writing than entertaining an already-brain-dead society and making money. If not,then you miss the point of writing.

Finding your passion is the key to your success. - Tracy Kauffman

Authors are merely the medium between the words and the page.

Caron Kamps Widden

Art is a conversation we are all invited to and are all worthy to participate in. Yes, great works can be intimidating, but no one else in the world has what you have—your voice, your eyes, your feeling and perspective. Other people have written great books, but no one else will ever write YOUR book. It's worth writing. That is the belief that carries me through.

I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that’s made by one person, but that’s not true… Every reading of a book is a collaboration between the reader and the writer who are making the story up together.

Publishing a book is like being pregnant. By the end, you're just ready to get that baby out!

i want to never settle for anything less than my soul on paper.

Jonathan Culver

Author? Author? Did you write these legs?''Yes."'Well, I don't like dem. I don't like 'em at all at all. I could ha' writted better legs meself.

An idea is a gift, a finished project is turning that gift into a book by making yourself write even when you don't want to. There is no such thing as a block of time to write. You have to carve time from a busy day. Elaine L. Orr

Most gothics are overplotted novels whose success or failure hinges on the author's ability to make you believe in the characters and partake of the mood.

Let your passion bleed through your work. No one cares how much you know until they know how much you care.

Ace Antonio Hall

I read your diary. I KNOW

Writer's block is when your imaginary friends won't talk to you.

That woman must have been a husky in a previous life.

There's a darkness to everyone, you just have to let it out to see the world in new eyes.

There's writing power in one word sentences and one sentence paragraphs. Wise authors use them. -Judith Briles

It is, of course, not only impossible for readers to know the intention of most, if not all, writers, but an author himself may think he is writing one thing while he is in fact writing something quite different.

Russell M. Goldfarb

The big trinity of publishing: mystery, thrillers and romance. If you can combine all three, then it’s a winner’s trifecta and you’ll be rich beyond your dreams.

What do you want to write? What gets your goat? What irks you to no length? If you could change the world with words, what would they be?

Hard core authors are determined about their craft, and they know that building a brand entails hard work. They eat, breathe and live their writing.:

Geraldine Solon

This is the best time to be an author.

Geraldine Solon

Be the CEO of your own career.

An Authorpreneur focuses on establishing one's brand to the consumer using different avenues to promote their work.

Geraldine Solon

To say that Agatha Christie’s characters are cardboard cut-outs is an insult to cardboard cut-outs.

... in art nothing is more secondary than the author's intentions.

Jorge Luis Borges

Am reading more of Oscar Wilde. What a tiresome, affected sod.

All raw, uncooked, protesting."(on Aldous Huxley)

I am too much of an imitator to be a true writer.

Zia Haider Rahman

People always try to make self-published authors feel insignificant. I have more respect for self-published authors, because I know the adversity they faced. They didn't just write a manuscript, query letter, and blam book deal. These authors had to do it the difficult way. There is no publisher, or agents, investing time, and money into making their book. Just the indie author's manuscript, own currency, and persistence.

Mary Sage Nguyen

As an author the question I get asked the most is, “why do you write?” My knee jerk response is, “Because I love it,” which is true, but not the whole truth. So here is my revised response to that question; “I write for the thirteen year old me who hated reading and craved something different than the boring literature I was forced to read for school. I write to see something I want to read exist in the world. I write because it becomes unbearable to hold so many stories in my head without a way to express them, but most importantly, I write to be true to myself.

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