Writing Quotes

The art of writing involves making as many cups of tea as you can in the time available for writing. Then adding extra time for writing...

This poem was meant to be unwritten. But I am writing it now and have thereby changed destiny.

Don’t beat yourself up, son. I’m sure there is a culture on this spinning ball of dirt where you can be pretty. If not, do rock ‘n roll, or practice words. That shit’s pretty as well.

The inspired words, which flush my mind, come from a higher power!

Her words are her wings. She's flying.

I can't keep myself from creativity. Ideas flash like lightning burning my bones. It must flow out of my hands or it will burst me apart.

Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge. Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat. Poetry isn’t swimming. Poetry is water.

It is a dangerous thing to substitute reading or writing for living. Live first, then write.

These poems are cupsthat I pour my life into.Here, Drink!

We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear.

Because at nightwhen others are sleeping, I drown myself in poetry.

Timid young artists, adding parental fears to their own, often give up their sunny dreams of artistic careers, settling into the twilight world of could-have-beens and regrets.

Art is not about thinking something up. It is about the opposite—getting something down.

Maybe stories choose how they are told and who tells them.

Writing is probably the only form of art, through which you can express, which you would otherwise wouldn't dare to say in person....

I am going to build a fortress of books.Will you come inside and live with me?

The written word is the greatest sacred documentation.

The written word is greatest sacred documentation.

Life is a rich literature. We are only writing the history of our time.

While victors may get to write history, novelists get to write/right reality.

The story we write today will support the next generation.

Creativity begins with a walk with nature.

A pen name is a nickname.

Music is a writer's heartbeat.

Writing fluency sometimes needs an intense agony somewhere in your mind

All I need to dois place my pen against paperand your lovewrites for me.

Lord I thank you for the wise-words and grace to write.

When I write I like to give equal justice to lyrics, too. I want the song to have meaning for me so I can make it have meaning for the audience.

I reside in an abode where your thoughts imagine me... You reside in my heart where the auricles camouflage my longing...

I write fiction. It may have mystery, it may have horror, it may have fantasy, it may have love, but like life, it's all the same genre.

You don't have INSOMNIA. You're a writer with an unfinished book!

Word-Power'Being stuck in my room, I've become a world traveler.If you wonder how...just guess how I've reached you right now

You cannot write your character until you know how he or she thinks, until you know what their philosophy is in the world that they occupy.

Life is more than one genre'.

The self-addressed stamped envelope. The representation of everything that was wrong with the old publishing industry.

An artist must be passionately in love with her art. Obsessed or possessed ― go mad for what you believe in.

Fantasy is an excellent platform to shine new lights on old truths.

Writers need faith, or else we can never trust the action of our words!

Confession: I don't want to be one of my characters. I'm mean to them sometimes. Really mean.

Keep being bold on the page, and in life, and people cannot ignore you forever.

There is nothing better than expressions in words.

Our stories must be written, shared and communicated.

[Speaking about writing her first novel] You have to be passionate enough about it and I was.

Sometimes you have to go a little crazy before you can find sanity. I think I'm close.

Tattoos are a permanent commitment of passion

A Writer is Actor, Creator, Director & Producer Of HIS Life. Ask ME anything.

Are you imperfect, romantically irrational, ridiculously fearless, and utterly illogical? You're my ideal reader, friend, partner. I'm your fan.

Writing fiction feels like an adventurous act, nudging aside reality a word at a time.

Each time I discovered a potential link between one character’s story and another’s, several more connections would reveal themselves, like a beautiful, complex web spinning itself.

Suspense doesn’t always have to be about physical danger. Making the reader worry is a universal concept that can be applied to any story.