Writing Philosophy Quotes

Writing Philosophy Quote of the day

Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.

The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers.

My philosophy on writing books is that if you learn only one new thing, or even get a new take on something you already know, it's worth it.

The historian records, but the novelist creates.

There are two moments worthwhile in writing, the one when you start and the other when you throw it in the waste-paper basket.

Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with its difficulties and a pursuit of its felicities and beauty.

And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right.

A lot of philosophy is bull***t, but a lot of it is what we write songs about too. And it's organizing your thoughts, organizing your intellect.

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

It's a sort of philosophy you cook up for yourself. You probably write things the same as everybody else, but it's your own personal way of saying things.

Teaching and writing about philosophy is about the only thing I've ever been really good at.

Paul McCartney and John Lennon would often write a song a day, so I have the same workmanlike philosophy.

When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue—you sell him a whole new life.

Writing is a series of verbal suggestions designed to provoke a psychological reaction and an aesthetic experience.

Publish. Be damned. Repeat.

Every day we live, we are writing our own secret book.

Success does not bring happiness. Success brings success.

If you're a writer, write. And always strive for excellence.

Writers are like supreme beings. We can create worlds in a matter of days and we can destroy them just as fast.

I believe that fiction with its untrammelled nature, speaks to no one, and by so doing, speaks to all.

dear me i think i can run miles after miles through my mind by imaginary flyover, gather all together to write down on my notebook.

One day, I decided I was going to write books forever.

I’m proud to be a writer. I’m doing the job all my heroes did.

The power of writing supernaturally set things into motion.

As a writer: Aim toward becoming keen through a looking glass limn perspective on evoking pleasure of the senses with STRONG VERBS.

A hammer made of deadlines is the surest tool for crushing writer's block.

Keep working. Keep trying. Keep believing. You still might not make it, but at least you gave it your best shot. If you don’t have calluses on your soul, this isn’t for you. Take up knitting instead.

To master magical realism, one must make the real seem unreal but, more importantly, make the unreal seem real.

There is nothing to writing. You nourish your creativity for months and years until you release your baby out into the world.

When writing a book what is more important? Grammar and spelling or telling a great story? I know which I would choose.

Only my characters truly know what's happening - I just hold the pen

A daily written thankful gratitude is a heavenly blessing.

Write to evolve and you'll evolve to write.

Writing is taking human experience and wrapping it up into a package of your own ideas and hoping someone will pull the bow smiling on top to see what's hiding inside.

Bringing you closer to the fragile edge of living is the job of a writer.

Through writing, an author opens the window of his heart through which a reader can see the inner self of the author.

If the novel is dead, I'm a necrophiliac.

How do poems grow? They begin deep down in the pit of the soul as a seedling of a thought …

Writer is a Film Director of letters.

Revenge. Justice. Love. They are the three stories that all other stories are made up of. It's the trifecta.

The greatest happiness is a quiet kind. It’s the tender understanding that we’re living in a very strange place full of strange creatures. And there’s quite a bit of wonder in that.

My creativity keeps me from starving. Humanity keeps my life mundane. Loving secures my love for life, but my imagination keeps me sane.

I keep dying and hoping you notice me. But you’re too busy living.

There is nothing to me but you. I know it’s pathetic but, oh darling, it’s true.

All that is required of you is an open mind and a little patience.

All around us is a nothing that stretches on for infinity. We humans can barely comprehend that. If we comprehend it we are rarely pleased.

Snow floated down every once in a while, but it was frail snow, like a memory fading into the distance.

For the writer, the process of writing a novel is like getting an advanced copy of a book you'd really like to read.

The art of writing is the manipulation of words to ease the mind and free the imagination

Authors are sick people.