Write Quotes Quotes & Sayings

Become my muse. And let me paint you with my words... — Avijeet Das

When we hear our souls speak, we are free. — A.D. Posey

Give someone a book, they'll read for a day. Teach someone how to write a book, they'll experience a lifetime of paralyzing self doubt. — Lauren DeStefano

Don't confuse the darkness that's leaving with the light that's coming in. — A.D. Posey

All writers start out writing badly, but with diligence and determination, we all get better. It's then that writing becomes truly fun and always engaging. When you no longer have to worry about how you write, you can start thinking about what to write. — Theo Fenraven

A great Tamil poet, given to decadence and debauchery, once said that the story of his life could serve as an example to the youth on how one should
not live. Having lived, or rather, having sleepwalked for ten years through the desolate wastelands of depression, I survived to reach the other side. I believe that this validates my claim to write this book for you. — Indu Muralidharan

when i write of you, my dear
i am holding you
in the most
exquisite
ways. — Sanober Khan

Make your writing memorable. — A.D. Posey

The world is a woven basket. Every stitch counts. — A.D. Posey

You must risk placing real emotion at the center of your work. Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Tell the truth as you understand it. If you're a writer, you have a moral obligation to do this. — Anne Lamott

Reading sparks writing. — A.D. Posey

Writing in the dark is hard, but you have to light your own candle and do it anyway. — A.D. Posey

Be a great writer when you write your life's song. — Debasish Mridha

Creativity is divine. — A.D. Posey

I don't think I've ever dared to write down what I see in the ruins of me, or tell in any detail the scars and all their secrets. — Ashly Lorenzana

I do not write for children, but for the childlike, whether of five, or fifty, or seventy-five. — George MacDonald

Thoughts
thoughts. Are they not mine?
I think, I write, I type.
Thoughts. Are they wise?
Let truth be told in words, compiled together, create a page, a book.
Thoughts. Are they master piece?
Is it a prize winner? ... An Alfred Nobel?
Thoughts. Are they not mine?
Gift of God?
they are not mine. — Edna Stewart

You're with you 24/7; you must love you the most. — A.D. Posey

Give all of life's oxygen to the fire that is your soul. — A.D. Posey

Bring forward what is true. Write it so that it is clear. Defend it to your last breath. — Ludwig Boltzmann

If I write as well as I golf, I'm in trouble! — Buffy Andrews

To write good poems is the secret of brevity. — Dejan Stojanovic

If you don't humiliate yourself, you don't live. — A.D. Posey

Don't we all look up at the same stars? — A.D. Posey

If everyone took his pen and wrote just anything that came on his mind, we would greatly help researchers to understand how our minds work — Bangambiki Habyarimana

I have fallen in love with writing, unknowingly. Instead of thinking whether people will like what I write or not, I decide to write only for one person- myself! I told myself that 'I as an author is going to entertain I as an audience.' And everything changed that day!

When you find your passion, don't succumb to the pressure of succeeding.Follow your passion just for yourself and for the sheer joy of it. You will see amazing things will follow- that's a guarantee. — Vishwas Mudagal

The mere ambition to write a poem is enough to kill it. — Henri Michaux

In the end, we begin. — A.D. Posey

Some days you live in pajamas, and your hair kind-of has that Albert Einstein look. — A.D. Posey

The story becomes clearer with time. — A.D. Posey

In the equation of life, the limit does not exist. — A.D. Posey

I wasn't perfect, and I made mistakes; but I learned from them and became a better person for it. I always followed my heart. And most of all, I loved - with every ounce of my being. I guess you could say the greatest love story ever written isn't confined to the pages of a book. It's in our lives; and we're the ones who write it. So that's what life's all about, isn't it? Why we're here. It has nothing to do with dollars. In fact, it's totally free. Life's greatest gift. And the best part is, the best part, this gift we give to others ... we get it back. It's what makes the journey so worthwhile ... it's LOVE. — Sebastian Cole

A program of active reading and writing might be the hardest form of thinking, but it is also the most organized methodology of self-education. Reading exposes the mind to a world of ideas heretofore unimaginable and encourages the novice learner to write. Reading is a form a joint mediation and writing represents the product of several authors' collective and collaborative minds at work. — Kilroy J. Oldster

You think you have no 'talent'? Write anyway. lots of people with 'talent' don't actually act on it. As long as you write, you will learn, you will improve, and you will be better than anyone claiming to have 'talent. — M. Kirin

I'm not sure if people understand what it means to be a writer. It's not like it feels so great. I mean, most of the time you are sitting at your desk and bleeding out onto your computer screen, your notepad, your notebook ... there's a lot of bleeding that goes on when you're a writer! You don't just work to sell books, you work to bind your wounds and put your skin back together again after opening yourself up all over the place! I don't know how other writers write ... but this is how I write. — C. JoyBell C.

The greatest artists see what is invisible to the masses. — A.D. Posey

With grace and beauty, feel. — A.D. Posey

Writing is one of the best therapies that exist. Either on paper, computer, phone or tablet, in any form it is helpful. Whenever you feel like writing, just do it. Let the words flow out of your mind and heart. It doesn't have to make sense to anyone but you. Some people may find easier to express themselves in writing than verbally. While you will have time to choose the best words, you will also escape the fear of immediate reaction. Take your time and play with the words until you feel you got them right. One can write about anything. About a dream, a fantasy, a love story, happenings during the day, an apology or a greeting, everything is permitted in the world of writing. There it is no good or bad. — Nico J. Genes

Be what the world needs. — A.D. Posey

Love is the miracle of life. — A.D. Posey

Perspective is the key to everything. — A.D. Posey

If you have a dream, keep it. But write it down and take appropriate actions to see it manifest. — T.F. Hodge

Keep a diary, but don't just list all the things you did during the day. Pick one incident and write it up as a brief vignette. Give it color, include quotes and dialogue, shape it like a story with a beginning, middle and end - as if it were a short story or an episode in a novel. It's great practice. Do this while figuring out what you want to write a book about. The book may even emerge from within this running diary. — John Berendt

We are all the authors of our own fates; but we have gotten so lost in the technicalities of forming letters and stringing words together that we've forgotten what it really means to write. — Cristen Rodgers

You will need seed money, so begin saving for your book. Don't give up. Also, write down the ideas that you have right away so you don't lose them. — Soraya Diase Coffelt

I believe that, for those who love to write, time spent writing is never wasted. And then isn't it from book to book that we approach the book that we really want to write? — Elena Ferrante

The thing I want to write most is the next thing I write. — Carroll Bryant

Is it possible to write a poem or are these words just screams of outlaws exiled to the desert? — Dejan Stojanovic

Write the words "The FIve Senses" on an index card and tack it to a bulletin board above your desk. You should have a bulletin board above your desk, if at all possible. Some place where you can tack images, quotes, postcards, scraps of thoughts and ideas that will help remind you of you you are and what you're doing. — Dani Shapiro

You can't undo the past, but you can remedy it by creating a better future. — A.D. Posey

If poetry is what you live for then do it write. — R.M. Engelhardt

Rocks and minerals: the oldest storytellers. — A.D. Posey

Not everyone will like what you write but there's a certain group who'll love what you write. Keep WRITING for them. — David Chuka

When we sit down to write, we psychically enter a sanctuary. This safe haven is our own personal space where we can say whatever is on our mind, where we can talk about what matters most to us, where we can imagine the kind of world that we would like to live. — Rob Bignell, Editor

He captured my heart so profoundly, I couldn't even write the words to say. — Nikki Rowe

At least I'm not afraid, and no one will ever call me boring. — A.D. Posey

Some say Twitter is overrated.
Some love it, others hate it.
I guess it depends on what you've got,
If you have guts to write a funny plot! — Ana Claudia Antunes

In life, be a kid in a candy store. — A.D. Posey

Lead with your heart. The rest will follow. — A.D. Posey

I recognize that memory is far from infallible though. If I feel like I can't accurately describe something, I just leave it out. I also do things like write "he talked about ... " instead of writing direct quotes. But generally I feel like since my stories are very obviously meant to be my perception of an event rather than the objective truth this gives me a lot of leeway. — Marie Calloway

Whenever people ask me, "How are your books doing?" or, "How is your book doing?" I just say, "It's okay." I mean, what am I supposed to say? I'm a writer; that means I write because I need to write, because that's how I breathe and that's how I bleed. I'm not an author; I'm a writer. Even when I don't want to write; I can't stop! So, how are my books doing? The hell I know! The moment after I publish one book, I'm writing another one! I don't know how my books are doing! I just know that I'm writing them! I'm a writer, I'm a writer. I'm not an author. — C. JoyBell C.

Identifying as a writer is a matter of self-acceptance. It's not a thing that can be given to you, or bestowed upon you. You are a writer if you write. That's it. If what you are seeking is to be acknowledged as a writer by other people, many of them strangers, you're in for a demoralizing journey. It is a silly club where those who have been 'accepted' are loathe to permit others into. It's sort of like how we Americans love denying our own immigrant origins while railing against immigration. — Vincent Louis Carrella

Write to Inspire. Write to Express. Write to Live. — The Refined Poet

Writing is like breathing for my soul. — A.D. Posey

It's good to write badly. Things can only get better. — Alan Dapre

Love is growing up. — A.D. Posey

Be the sun breaking through the clouds. — A.D. Posey

A day of rest yields a hundred days of progress. — A.D. Posey

Each time I write, I reaffirm my soul. — Rob Bignell, Editor

My fingers burn behind the keys of my typewriter, the lettering fading with every thoughtful strike. The many words I write I dare not stall; my mind perpetually alert for my magnum opus call. — A.K. Kuykendall

A writer's uniqueness glows and transforms the heart and the soul of a reader. — A.D. Posey

A film that is a true work of art transcends theatre and heartwarmingly changes lives. — A.D. Posey

The key is in the craft. — A.D. Posey

Explore your own peace. — A.D. Posey

A writer can never escape the labyrinth of words inside his mind. — K.D. Green

In the end, you have to make love to your story and see what happens. — A.D. Posey

I write narrative nonfiction, creating lively scenes through action and the use of quotes from firsthand accounts, all based on rigorous research. If I say a character leaned against a fence on a windy day, than I have at least two sources to back up these details. — Jim Murphy

If you have time to write a business plan, you have time to prove the model. Just sayin. — Richie Norton

Basically, writers write because they have something to say...Everyone has a story in them, writers merely decide to share it with the world... — Virginia Alison

Write because you love to write. — Cindi Lee

Not everything can stand the test of time, but a story can. — A.D. Posey

If anything viewed as negative has happened on your journey thus far, turn the page, create a new chapter, and write your own positive story. Then, bless humanity with the wisdom you have gained by traveling through the experience. — Molly Friedenfeld

I am, to my core, Canadian, so, by osmosis, everything I write reflects that upbringing. — Elinor Florence

Those who can write, write.
Those who can't, criticize. — Max Hawthorne

Get through a draft as quickly as possible. Hard to know the shape of the thing until you have a draft. Literally, when I wrote the last page of my first draft of Lincoln's Melancholy I thought, Oh, shit, now I get the shape of this. But I had wasted years, literally years, writing and re-writing the first third to first half. The old writer's rule applies: Have the courage to write badly. — Joshua Wolf Shenk

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

Life isn't life without real butter. — A.D. Posey

In love there is truth, and in truth there is peace. — A.D. Posey

How could people not believe in magic when the whole world is made of it? — A.D. Posey

Discipline allows magic. To be a writer is to be the very best of assassins. You do not sit down and write every day to force the Muse to show up. You get into the habit of writing every day so that when she shows up, you have the maximum chance of catching her, bashing her on the head, and squeezing every last drop out of that bitch. — Lili St. Crow

All answers to life's key questions are found within. — A.D. Posey

When I write fiction, I struggle to decide the fate of two people created by my mind and spend countless hours to give them a happy ending. God, the Almighty has created infinite human beings till date and runs all our lives with such ease. He is the BEST WRITER of all. — Shahla Khan

I read things that male relationship experts write about women and I read things that female relationship experts write about men, then I feel a true sadness in my heart. Why can't there be a simple, pure, direct openness? Why can't there be a simple, real, open trust? The truth is that male or female, gay or straight - we are all people - we have all been broken and put back together in so many different ways ... it's really just about learning how to recognize the sound of the other one's cracks. And that's what it's really about, just that. — C. JoyBell C.

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

I had a few people ask me if I might one day write my own autobiography. I just told them, 'It's already being written; through my books. — T.S. Wieland

Want a role? Fuck a screenwriter. — A.D. Posey

Listen to what the sky is telling you. — A.D. Posey

Look through the eyes of your highest self. What do you see? — A.D. Posey

I never write the storyline ahead of the novel and stick to it like glue. I prefer my writing to be organic. It takes on a life of it's own. — Airam

I beg to differ on Charles Bukowski, who says nothing can save you, except writing. Sometimes, absolutely nothing will save you, not the nights you end up wasting waiting for something grand to happen, not the mornings where coffee has no taste and you wake up knowing the day will not be a blast, not the plans and schemes you write down on your imaginary flipchart to make the world go round. You end up stuck, alone and in the disparate points of chaos that drag you down, you have to come up with something to save yourself. Then you make six impossible wishes before breakfast, start walking and working and learn to seize what you call paranormal activity when it comes true. — Ioana-Cristina Casapu