Writing Quotes

Reading literature and engaging in writing breaks through the mental rigidity that experience and repetition breeds.

Sit here, so I may writeyou into a poem and make you eternal.

Is the healing process the writing or the reading of that writing?What are we all healing from? Ourselves?What are we all healing towards? Ourselves?

I'll have enough books when they fill my room like the stars fill the sky.

A single poem, alonecan turn tidesscatter galaxiesand burst forth with riversfrom paradise.

Words will change your future

A writer who doesn’t read is like a director who doesn’t watch movies.

You'll never get to the happily ever after if you don't move past the current chapter...

Reading brings us unknown friends.” — Honoré de Balzac

I read to learn from the greats but I write to compete with them.

I was behind, but now I'm below. Hopefully, they'll have books wherever I go...

A man who wants time to read and write lets the grass grow long.

A book acts as the getaway car when you need to escape.Even when you're the one writing it.

How could I fall asleep, when I love the pleasure of reading and writing at night?

We sometimes reveal how ignorant or bored we were when we read a book by giving it 5-stars.

Writers: read books. Read good books. Read bad books. Learn what does and does not work.

It feels good to read book. But it is grander to write a book.

If e-book readers were invented before print books, (petty things such as) the smell of ink would have been some people’s only reason for not abandoning e-books.

The only thing a closed book is good for is a table that wobbles. Be an open book.

The more you read, the more you write, and the more you free yourself to do so, the better writer you will become.

Cry while writing it, and readers will cry while reading it.

Reading sparks writing.

How you feel after reading something indicates not what you’ve read but where you are at.

Reading opens up other pockets of the mind.

Every sacred soul must walk and keep the way of God in the wilderness for years, to begin the sacred writings.

Until you begin to write, then you see wonders.

Power up your intelligence. Hit that creativity button.

The hardest part about walking away from someone is the part where you realize that, no matter how slowly you go, they will never run after you.

If an Artist falls in love with you, you will live forever.

If I was meant to be controlled, I would have come with a remote.

If ur laptop doesnt smell like fire then ur losing.

I'm the G when you spell OG

We didn't do anything illegal, All we ever did was be black.. #BlackLivesMatter

The survival of poor opinions can make a thinker feel as though he is failing humanity.

No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to

Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all - no one's around to write horror stories.

Have you noticed how just trying to impose any sort of chronology on events makes it seem as though a lot of time has been occupied?

you come to understand that history might be, as Thomas Carlyle put it, “a distillation of rumor, ” or, as Napoleon said, “a set of lies generally agreed upon

In writing I am seduced by the sound of words and by the interaction of their sound and sense.

If the historian will submit himself to his material instead of trying to impose himself on his material, then the material will ultimately speak to him and supply the answers.

The mysteries of life enfold with time.

Stop making excuses and start making history.

We are only writing the history of our time.

Life is a great Book. We are writing the history of our time.

The greatest literature is the Biblical stories.

Historical gap is created due to missing written records.

Any experience, which is not written, will be lost in time. Rich literature is lost forever.

Life consists of books. All experiences are stories to be told and must be written.

The present is never tidy, or certain, or reasonable, and those who try to make it so once it becomes the past succeed only in making it seem implausible.

Hanging out is good historical methodology.