Writing Quotes

My gratitude for good writing is unbounded

We walk through so many myths of each other and ourselves

To fight discouragement, remind yourself of the basics: I can write.I have the opportunity to do so. I love what I write. Now smile and be thankful.

If you don't know where to start, remember that every single thing that happened to you is yours and you get to tell it.

Come with me to the mountains. Every rock there tells a story.

I am a huge believer in revelations and fun twists.

A story that has nothing but action and plot is a pretty poor affair

All stories are the sin of their weaver.

From an author's point of view, the most painful and dangerous weapon ain't no gun or blade, but a piece of paper with the word rejected on it.

Throughout our lives, after all, we look for a story of our origins, to tell us why we were born and why we have lived.

Books measure time in both moments and years. We all grow old but the stories never will.

Everyone has a story to tell. Everyone is a writer, some are written in the books and some are confined to hearts.

Our stories are our best gifts--treasure and share them!

I don’t want to be remembered as a writer. I would rather be remembered as a storyteller.

Those who perpetrate stories must act cruelly.

Mythology is like a game of Chinese Whispers. What goes in at one end of the human circle is rarely what emerges at the other end.

A good story is [a] kind of irritant. You read it, then you cannot stop thinking about it. Eventually, your mind and heart encyst about it, and what occurs is a pearl of the soul.

Some of the best stories start out with a person who absolutely does not want anything to do with an adventure.

A story is inside of us all. Each word and sentence is alive and we grace the pages to keep it from dying.

Readers can surprise you. Many times, they notice layers in your stories, that even you were not aware of while writing.

Even if you're in the thick of revising another work, write something new. Something small. It's important to keep telling yourself stories.

The best endings resonate because they echo a word, phrase, or image from earlier in the story, and the reader is prompted to think back to that reference and speculate on a deeper meaning.

Fictions are realities we don't think of, that are happening to people we know nothing about.

Maybe we guzzle forty stories with every breath we draw and they soak into us and flavor and thicken and spice the wild stew we are.

Every good story needs a good, bad and lost soul. A people to fight for, an item to turn the tide of battle, an enigmatic character, a motivator/mentor, and an unlikely reluctant hero.

I can’t protect you from the stars, but I can tell you stories that may help at night when they are staring at you.

Follow your gut, Storyteller, it will lead to your happy ending.

David had left her, taking his insane jealousy with him.

A daydreamer is a writer just waiting for pen and paper.

The voices in my head wouldn't shut up, so I let them write their story.

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser―in case you thought optimism was dead.

As a writer, my job is to change your perspective, and make you think outside the box.

If he (John Adams) could not control events, he could at least record them for posterity – perhaps the ultimate form of control.

Peter Aykroyd has a wonderful eye for the telling detail, cameos that stick in the mind. Thse are the little touches that make it past come alive.

It is important to measure ourselves at least once in life, undertake a personal odyssey that constructs a clarifying prism of our being.

The sacred soul writes the sacred words.

I am a hoarder of words, a giver of them, too

I heard the breeze whisper your name to the trees. And the flowers giggled smiling at the leaves. I and my loneliness keep talking about you.

You should be more carefulwhen you move, my dearwhat with you...spilling moonlightinto my poem, with a mereflick of your hand.

Some want to be writers when life permits it. There is no part-time in being a writer. It’s an all-in way of living your life through words and feelings scratched out with a pen.

As a writer, a poet, you’re not alone in wanting to be alone. Your work is a friendship that never leaves you.

I was a poet. I had no expectations other than creating a world of art with words that would live on long after I was gone.

Poets, with no sponsors, no agenda, are the truest form of freedom today, bleeding out every drop of themselves for the world to either hate or devour.

They say that the eyes are the windows to the soul, so what happens when the person's eyes are unavailable to look into? You read their words.

when i write of you, my deari am holding youin the most exquisiteways.

When you find yourself writing, reading, or listening the delivery of words when spoken? You know the melody of wordplay. “& I love Wordplay

I was asked once why I write poetry. I said, why do you breath?

Even writing about rainbows makes me smile.

As I inch forward to embrace my life again by being mindful, writing books, and planning adventures, I sense my dad would approve. I know he would want me to be happy.

When I write, my soul sings.