Writing Quotes

As the story grew, it put down roots into the past and threw out unexpected branches .

I'm back in these regions of fumbling dark uncertain creation, but it's my one and only world, and I'll do the best I can.

Creativity expands the mind, stretches it beyond ordinary human comprehension, resulting in the mind being elastic and capable of transcending and discerning complex ideas.

Dreams are fuel for creation.

Writing is a form of art. Do not use New Times Roman or Arial because it's boring and hackneyed.

There’s no such thing as writer’s block, so long as you’ve had plenty of time to think about what you want to write.

I like working among ‘creative clutter’. It gives me a sense of activity and achievement.

The process of creation begins way before one starts writing.

The whole world is like an opened candy jar, and we're plunging in for the best treats

That tingle in the brain is called a word.It bats itself against its fleshy bounds.

The central point of the work of art is the work as origin, the point which cannot be reached, yet the only one which is worth reaching.

poetry. i am not writing it.(make way for me please)it is my skin. dripping with light.

Don't keep your Muse locked up in the closet. Set them free to dance across the page and what they create will be a masterpiece.

We spend our lives waiting for our book and it never comes.

Bea stared at the pencils as if they were enemies.

Writer's block is just another name for fear.

To forget oneself-to lose oneself in the music, in the moment- that kind of absorption seems to be at the heart of every creative endeavor.

With poetry and writing, the question isn’t “do you know the right words?”.The real question is, “can you make words from the unwordable, chisel blocks of raw silence into shapes and touch our souls?

We are doing the most important possible work in the world when we open the door and reveal our creative nature. It is the work of the Universe itself.

poetry’s favourite moment is when one loses one’s footing because of a landslide or seismic shaking of thought

My words shouldn’t be trophies to look at, but seeds to continue the cycle of Life.

There's a magic to letting a story and its people unfold with witchcraft and late nights and walks in the woods. You don't lead a story. You follow it.

In writing, there is art. And in art there is craft ...

Give a hundred writers the same idea and you'll get a hundred different stories.

Threshold is where the madness ends and the magic begins.

Creating anything that never existed before is not sanity.

You don't have to reinvent the wheel... just steal the hubcaps.” ― Michael P. Naughton,

Writing creatively is a process of self-consumption that requires one to dive deeply inside of oneself with no guarantee of reemergence.

My advice would be to write-never to stop writing, to keep it up all the time, to be painstaking about it, to write until you begin to write.

Some writers aren't writers, they are mere escapees' and refugees' on an exile from the jungle of thoughts.

Good" now is better than "Best" never.

Novel writing is World Building & Word Weaving (Neil Postman's terms).

after life has broken you open, perhaps you may create art

Writers are not just writers, they are creators of worlds, sculptors of the mind, they are architects of language.

Discovery's friend is creativity

I don't get writers block. I get writer has too many ideas and doesn't know which one to start next, block.

How often have the greatest thoughts and ideas come to light during conversations with the family over the evening dinner?

Writing keeps death at bay. Every book I write is a triumph over death. ... If we did not know we’d die, we’d wander around and sleep like cats.

Spiritual growth and creativity are two sides of the same coin.

I create, therefore I am.

P.S. It's not schizophrenia, it's creativity, there is a difference. My voices go away after I let them tell their stories.

Some build their castles 'mid thunderbolts and fireworks. My worlds take shape in silence.

Artistry exists in everyone. What makes it blossom is a soul's personal desire to find an outlet for expression.

Our job in this life is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.

If you're "one in a million", and the world is full of seven billion people, that means there are seven thousand people just like you.

When you fail, get hurt, feel bad, but act on it! Everybody fails, but the ones who act are the ones who change the world!

You're the creator of your own future. Get to writing.

You can’t undo the past, but you can remedy it by creating a better future.

Don’t let the poison of the past spoil a fruitful future.

You can work to create a bright future.