Writers On Writing Quotes
There are times when I'm writing where time feels irrelevant. Those are the moments I know I'm creating magic.
Save your work, you may never know when the light will go off.
The planet you inhabit is a single plane of infinite dimensions, stretched like a guitar string, and standing before you like a concubine waiting for your command.
Begin to write, your heart will flow with sacred words.
Put emotions to thoughts. Thoughts to words. Words to paragraphs. Paragraphs to pictures. Let your mind be known, heard and seen. Your thoughts are real as it could be.
I reside in an abode where your thoughts imagine me... You reside in my heart where the auricles camouflage my longing...
Writing is probably the only form of art, through which you can express, which you would otherwise wouldn't dare to say in person....
One day someone will fall in love with you despite all your flaws! Then magic will happen in your life!
The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple — to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it.
All you have to do is put one word after another, and remember how great it feels to be a writer.
Biographies are best when written chronologically. Boring people don't make for good biographies.
Introduction of deus ex machina is a tell-tale sign of sloppy plotting.
Make today the day you begin that awesome idea you have had for years. Now go, write this book, and remember that today is an important day in history.
There is no ceremony, no initiation ritual, no secret hand-shake. All you need to be a writer is to write.
Proper writing ink comes in a bottle, can be swirled like brandy in a glass, and smells like apple blossom after rain.
Those who are long on logic, definitions, abstractions, and formulas are frequently short on a sense of the concrete.
More and more I don't have any philosophy about writing, except that it is something we can do if God is good to us. Of course we are the ones who have to do the paperwork.
But I did not want to be good. I wanted to be a writer.
Becoming a writer does not mean words will suddenly flow with perfection from your pen. It takes hard work, rejection, and the willingness to lay everything inside you out for the world to see.
Art is too often discounted as a secondary priority. The writer is necessary to society.
If a pen can communicate our thoughts, dreams, and emotions and be the voice of our soul, then ink is the medium that carries the message.
Stories not only give us a much needed practice on figuring out what makes people tick, they give us insight into how we tick.
A writer's role was never just to tell stories, but to create a world to encompass and share with others.
You start wondering if you deserved those high reviews on your books or if people just pitied you and went “Poor sod. Here’s a five star review so you don’t hang yourself in the garage.
You see, I believe that you cannot be taught to 'write.' You can be taught grammar and punctuation, but you cannot be taught to be a writer. That has to come from within.
Words are my weapons. They might kill or cure the readers, that’s out of my control.
A world that does not love, respect and protect its Women is doomed to perish! Because Women are Mother Earth!
When the vision fill yours mind and passio hits your gut, the need to write it down cannot be stifled.
When the vision fills your brain and passion hits your gut, the need to write it down cannot be stifled. (Marti Melville)
Writers do not have the privilege of sleep. There is always a story coming alive in their heads, constantly composing. Whether they choose it or not.
He looked at the blue sky above and the green grass below and he knew he would always love this world!
In retrospect we can only be thankful to all the mistakes that we made and to all the lessons that we learned from them!
