Writing Quotes
The brain. Where words mean something. The heart. Where words feel something. When both work together. Kaboom.
People keep asking me ...How to instantly become a better writer? It’s simple: Use "power words" and see for yourself.
I look at words as if they were entities, sacred beings. There are words to which I tip my hat when I see them sitting on a page.
The greatest book is one written by your pen, but not exactly from your mind.
I am completely unflustered by whichever medium people choose to read my words. I'm just delighted they're reading them at all!
Art, its completeness, its formedness, its finishedness, had no power to console. Words, on the other hand, were a lifeline.
Three carefully stringed words are worth more than a book of gibberish. It's not the word count but the impact of those words that counts.
There are things known—things experienced, felt, and understood—that words hold no power to convey. Attempting to do so only dilutes their substance and does them injustice.
I find that is the best way to write during emotional scenes...put yourself and your emotions in every single word.-Nina Jean Slack
Words are music to the ears, alone or together, with or without melody.
Why certainly, words possess power. They do! But releasing their magic requires combining and arranging those words in the right order.
Chameleonesque, hobbitish, unicorned, stompled, selfishism, and unwakeable may not be real words, but you do know what they mean.
You know your heart and soul are stapled to that manuscript, but what we see are the words on the paper
In such troubled times, we must remember the value writers have—the value of inventing new language to keep pace with the rapidly transforming world around us.
How can anyone underestimate the ballistic quality of words? Invisible things happen in intangible moments. What should keep us writing is precisely that possibility of explosions
I sit in front of the notebook and feel like it’s just too late for me. And that this book isn’t working, nothing’s working, everything feels like it’s made of spiders.
What we have now, shall never be again. The poets of the past sit in amazement of the wanna-be's of an era long gone.
Bells ringing with no soundLaughter with no voiceHappiness lost without being foundMaking love with no noise
I think I've lost my faith and I can't stop writingbecause I don't know howmuch longer I can hold on.
An intensely gripping narrative...expertly crafted and totally addictive...a must read!
I resolve to write a new chapter of my life every new day in the New Year.
May God’s grace awaken the heart of writing in my husband, Jeremiah Nii Mama Akita.
Writing is how I process the cacophony of each day. Prayer is how God makes sense out of my scribbles.
I write, as far as I can tell, because writing is a black sheep sibling of prayer, an urgent struggle against a bad connection, intent, hopeful, innocent, never quite good enough.
Life's like a book: What matters is the hook. Be it short or long, just live it strong. Whether it's five stars, or how near or far, just soar!
My life is ruled by four W’s: my writing, my work, my wife, and my whisky. Not necessarily in that order.
There’s no other way but work, work and work. Read widely, live wildly, plumb the depths of yourself, turn yourself inside out until you find your voice
And because the world is too big and time is too short and you only have one life to live, read!
The people I've known who wanted to become writers, knowing what it meant, did become writers.
If I went back to college again, I'd concentrate on two areas learning to write and to speak before an audience. Nothing in life is more important than the ability to communicate effectively.
He captures memories because if he forgets them, it's as though they didn't happen.