Writing Quotes

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.

Written words can also sing.

She was a beautiful dreamer. The kind of girl, who kept her head in the clouds, loved above the stars and left regret beneath the earth she walked on.

Death is the easy part, the hard part is living and knowing you could be so much more then you’re willing to be.

Sometimes to self-discover you must self-destruct.

Sometimes the most beautiful people are beautifully broken.

Somewhere along the way we all go a bit mad. So burn, let go and dive into the horror, because maybe it’s the chaos which helps us find where we belong.

A tamed woman will never leave her mark in the world.

Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul like you.

The best kind of humans are the ones who stay.

She was broken, I think it’s because she loved too much and she was always blind to the fact that love too is sometimes broken.

It’s funny, for all it took was a broken heart and that alone was enough, enough for her to do everything she ever dreamed of.

If I lived a million lives, I would've felt a million feelings and I still would've fallen a million times for you.

Suddenly, everything was beautiful. The way she viewed the world was nothing more but a reflection of herself.

Society will always be too fragile to accept us for all that makes us beautiful.

Madness and chaos are self-destructing but over thinking is the suicide.

I had to learn to live without you and I couldn't make sense of it, because I left so much of me inside of you.

It was never about the world being too big, it was more like she was too much for the world to handle.

Blessed are the weird people: poets, misfits, writersmystics, painters, troubadoursfor they teach us to see the world through different eyes.

You’re not a bad person, you’re just a little bit different and I’m a sucker for that.

Maybe love was meant to save us from ourselves.

If you want to be a writer, you have to write every day... You don't go to a well once but daily. You don't skip a child's breakfast or forget to wake up in the morning...

Writing means not just staring ugliness in the face, but finding a way to embrace it.

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don’t remember what I did before that. Just loafed, I suppose.

Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale..

I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.", November 1913)

ligion is the opiate of the masses." "I did masses of opiates religiously.

Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all.

Writing blooms flowers for mind, which last forever.

İnsanoğlu nedense anlayamadığı şeylere kötülemeye meyilli.

Without living, how can you know? Without knowing, how can you speak?

Dreams. They start in your beautiful mind. Think of beautiful things and it will manifest into actions because your body will listen to you. Like it always does.

When the writing is good, a book becomes a mirror. The reader will see an uncanny familiarity and respond accordingly.

Her maktul katilinde yaşamaya devam eder.

It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.

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

If one million of you give assent to the one thousand who participate in the murder of a child, then one million of you are a million times guilty.

No crime is a means to an end. No crime can be rationalized.

If one thousand of you participate in the murder of one child, then one thousand of you are a thousand times guilty.

In politics, the pen is at its heaviest because it is weighed down by the collective responsibility it holds towards its people and their future in the eyes of the world.

If you write in the Old World, and against it, your work must die, go missing, be veiled, before it can live the life for which it was destined in the New World.

When I hang upside down and write the wrong way up, will my letters be upside down or the right way up?

Glory of the world makes life meaningless. Glory of God fulfills it.

The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.

Becoming hurts.

Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand – but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never ­being satisfied.

As a writer of philosophy, it's good to ask oneself, 'Will I still believe this a week from now, or months, or even years?

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life., 8 September 1935)

I tell you this true story just to prove that I can. That my frailty has not yet reached a point at which I can no longer tell a true story.