Writing Quotes

Writing is about truth, whether it be fiction or a school essay. Don't give in and 'fake it till you make it.' Criticize what upsets you.

I seek to take my audience on an emotional roller-coaster ride, a journey of laughter and tears and every sentiment in between.

Writing is a solitary business. It’s just you and your characters and a blank page you need to fill.

My job takes up many daylight hours, it wakes me in the still of night and fills my head with ghosts and monsters but I love it, telling stories is what I was born to do.

Grayson: Fiction is just a lie anyway.Brianna: But it's not - it's a different kind of truth - it would be your truth at the time of the writing, wouldn't it?

For me, at least, fiction is the only way i can even begin to twist my lying memories into something true.

I love my career. It is a career. A difficult one that takes many hours and total dedication to my craft. It is also what I was born to do--tell stories and entertain.

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

You -have- to love your monster.

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.

Audiences will admire your character’s strength but connect with them through their weakness.

See the world anew and write down the bones of it.

Write like you have many readers.

The artistic methods of poetry, painting, photography, and writing share certain commonalities of deep composition: spirit, rhythm, thought, and scenery.

The process of creation can be unpredictable and, in some way, similar to love: the brightest waves of inspiration may sometimes occur in wrong timing, wrong places, or even with wrong people.

Working with the morning pages, we begin to sort through the differences between our real feelings, which are often secret, and our official feelings, those on the record for public display.

The more genuinely creative [the writer] is, the more he will want his work to develop in accordance with its own nature, and to stand independent of himself

Sometimes a writer simply finds new ways of saying what has already been said because, ultimately, truth is unoriginal.

We write not just to show off, not just to tell, or only to have written. We write to know ourselves.

Write the words on your heart.

I write because there are things in me that cannot die.

Eyesight can be so blinding. We need to look beyond the face of things.

The greatest moments of creativity come in absolute solitude, when one’s mind is free from distraction and able to probe the depths of the impossible.

Nothing listens as well as a blank page.

If you're not creating, you're disintegrating.

If your looking to write a book, your creativity, originality and simplicity is what will distinguish you.

Giving these students, teenagers, any form of power over the use of their own words, allowing them to turn everyday raw material into some form of beauty, is a gift beyond measure.

Pencil. Paper. Forget the world.

...if you always move in certainty, your writing will be flat - creativity is a rugged terrain...

I hope that I capture something in my work that is about the elusive, the magical and powerful and the transformative. The writing in itself is transformative for me.

At least I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had. Not to preach to them, but to give it to them if they cared to hear it.

It's not what you lift, it's where you carry it.

I am no longer a writer. Just an emotion. An emotion that is unable to stay within its own body, and is therefore, trying to make its way into yours.

Writing is about taking everyday observations, things which people see almost every day of their lives, and yet bringing it to their attention for the very first time.

The word 'NO' is the best motivation there is for the storyteller in you.

When I'm writing I don't want anyone else in the room - including myself.

The best thing about being a writer is that 'work' is always something you love, plus usually accompanied by tea, coffee and cakes of some sort.

Pay attention, and use your imagination.

Words often outlive the people who create them.

A Writer in Love.I was just a word weaverWhat did I know of love?Only thatSome days when the words weren’t enough, I knewI was in love.

Begin to write, your heart will flow with sacred words.

sometimes i wake upin the middleof the nightand findpoetry splatteredall over my bed.

Writing is a lifelong disease. Once contracted, the only prescription is to write constantly in whatever form to express your condition, in whatever construction to carry your words beyond you.

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.

Your flesh is not a reflection of your soul. So when you look in the mirror, remember that your light outshines your flaws.

You ought to write grateful gratitude every day

One piece of wisdom a writer quickly learns ~ typos keep you humble.

I am grateful to the Lord for blessing my path as a writer.

Save your work, you may never know when the light will go off.

If God inspires your writing, others will know because it will inspire them when they read it.