Writing Quotes - Page 8

Writing without revising is the literary equivalent of waltzing gaily out of the house in your underwear.

Patricia Fuller

So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days. One may be preoccupied with shopping and income tax returns and chance conversations, but the stream of the unconscious continues to flow undisturbed, solving problems, planning ahead: one sits down sterile and dispirited at the desk, and suddenly the words come as though from the air: the situations that seemed blocked in a hopeless impasse move forward: the work has been done while one slept or shopped or talked with friends.

You’re a mess, I confess, I despise you in the best kind of way.

Writer's block? I've heard of this. This is when a writer cannot write, yes? Then that person isn't a writer anymore. I'm sorry, but the job is getting up in the fucking morning and writing for a living.

Women writers make for rewarding (and efficient) lovers. They are clever liars to fathers and husbands; yet they never hold their tongues too long, nor keep ardent typing fingers still.

Bad writing is more than a matter of shit syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do― to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross the street.

You don’t deserve my image in your head. You don’t deserve my memories in your chest.

Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.

In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.

In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder, when the healing grace of authentic spirituality is usurped by the divisive politics of religious organizations, and when broken hearts bleed pain in darkness without the relief of compassion, the voice of an exceptional poet producing exceptional work is not something the world can afford to dismiss.

Aberjhani

Authors can write stories without people assuming that they are autobiographies, but songwriters and poets are often considered to be the characters in their works. I like Michelangelo's vision, 'I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

There is a master way with words which is not learned but is instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man exceptional hearing, a silent man, when given a piece of paper...

Music resembles poetry, in eachAre nameless graces which no methods teach,And which a master hand alone can reach.

Base words are uttered only by the baseAnd can for such at once be understood;But noble platitudes — ah, there's a caseWhere the most careful scrutiny is neededTo tell a voice that's genuinely goodFrom one that's base but merely has succeeded.

There have been times I've felt so much art in my soul I grew sick of artists.

so much of the world is plunged in darkness and chaos...So ring the bells that still can ringForget your perfect offeringThere is a crack in everythingThat’s how the light gets in.

Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces.

... so this is for us.This is for us who sing, write, dance, act, study, run and loveand this is for doing it even if no one will ever knowbecause the beauty is in the act of doing it.Not what it can lead to.This is for the times I lose myself while writing, singing, playingand no one is around and they will never knowbut I will forever rememberand that shines brighter than any praise or fame or glory I will ever have,and this is for you who write or play or read or singby yourself with the light off and door closedwhen the world is asleep and the stars are alignedand maybe no one will ever hear itor read your wordsor know your thoughtsbut it doesn’t make it less glorious.It makes it ethereal. Mysterious.Infinite.For it belongs to you and whatever God or spirit you believe inand only you can decide how much it meantand meansand will forever meanand other people will experience it toothrough you.Through your spirit. Through the way you talk.Through the way you walk and love and laugh and careand I never meant to write this longbut what I want to say is:Don’t try to present your art by making other people read or hear or see or touch it; make them feel it. Wear your art like your heart on your sleeve and keep it alive by making people feel a little better. Feel a little lighter. Create art in order for yourself to become yourselfand let your very existence be your song, your poem, your story.Let your very identity be your book.Let the way people say your name sound like the sweetest melody.So go create. Take photographs in the wood, run alone in the rain and sing your heart out high up on a mountainwhere no one will ever hearand your very existence will be the most hypnotising scar.Make your life be your artand you will never be forgotten.

Charlotte Eriksson

After the first glass of vodkayou can accept just about anythingof life even your own mysteriousnessyou think it is nice that a boxof matches is purple and brown and is called La Petite and comes from Swedenfor they are words that you know and that is all you know words not their feelings or what they mean and you write because you know them not because you understand them because you don't you are stupid and lazy and will never be great but you do what you know because what else is there?

Seed becomes tree, son becomes stranger.

You can not control the thought, but you can control the tongue.

A slip of the foot may injure your body, but a slip of the tongue will injure your bond.

One who doesn't recognise an opportunity is bigger loser than one who tries his hand at an opportunity.

War is not just the shower of bullets and bombs from both sides, it is also the shower of blood and bones on both sides.

My spouse is my shield, my spouse is my strength.

Through synergy of intellect, artistry and grace came into existence the blessing of a dancer.

Shah Asad Rizvi

Burdened no more is soul for whom life flows through dance and not breath.

Shah Asad Rizvi

A dream is like a first draft. No one will ever see it but you.

Faster is fatal, slower is safe.

In modern times couples are more concerned about loyalty than love.

Before we complicated life with money, machines and missiles we did well with morals, manpower and meetings.

Mixing old wine with new wine is stupidity, but mixing old wisdom with new wisdom is maturity.

Words are better than weapons, wisdom is better than war.

Don't compare the size of your roof with the size of the sky.

Uniform of a soldier and uniform of a student both are equally needed for the nation.

Rich can live better than poor but they cannot live without poor.

In general, poor is polite and rich is rude.

Anything which you have in profusion is poison

An assembly is extra slow in taking actions.

Routine ruins the life, variety vitalise the life.

In the business people with expertise, experience and evidence will make more profitable decisions than people with instinct, intuition and imagination.

The smell of the sweat is not sweet, but the fruit of the sweat is very sweet.

The mistakes of the world are warning message for you.

Don't mention your move before you make a move.

With right fashion, every female would be a flame.

All worries are less with wine.

A good food is mouthwatering when you see it and finger licking when you eat it.

We love our mother because she cares and also because she cooks.

Any girl with a grin never looks grim.

An old fashioned outfit is not a costume, it's a comedy.

You cannot choose your face but you can choose your dress.

In any game, the game itself is the prize, no matter who wins, ultimately both lose the game.

It is the sweat of the servants that make their squire look smart.

Power does not pardon, power punishes.

In a democracy, there will be more complaints but less crisis, in a dictatorship more silence but much more suffering.

Fashion doesn't make you perfect, but it makes you pretty.

Texting is not talking and a phone is not a friend.

The purpose of a profession is to fulfil the personal wishes of a prospect.

Dresses won't worn out in the wardrobe, but that is not what dresses are designed for.

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