Quotes Tagged "writers-on-writing"

Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion.

In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.

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.

A writer reports on the universe. When he presents his credentials, the gates of heaven and hell are equally opened to him. He can hear the devil’s defense and god’s accusations. The guards at the king’s heart let him in. The writer can be anything and any one he wants. When he writes he is a god, he creates.

Living is about capturing the essence of things. I go through my life every day with a vial, a vial wherein can be found precious essential oils of every kind! The priceless, fragrant oils that are the essence of my experiences, my thoughts. I walk inside a different realm from everybody else, in that I am existing in the essence of things; every time there is reason to smile, I hold out my glass vial and capture that drop of oil, that essence, and then I smile. And that is why I have smiled, and so you and I may be smiling at the same time but I am smiling because of that one drop of cherished, treasured oil that I have extracted. When I write, I find no need to memorize an idea, a plot, a sequence of things: no. I must only capture the essence of a feeling or a thought and once I have inhaled that aroma, I know that I have what I need.

You have a much shorter period of time in which to make an impression upon your prospects so you must be completely focused with your message-V J SMITH, Author, RADIO AD COPYWRITING BARNES AND NOBLE NOOK BOOK

my words are orphans since birth give them a home in your heart

And I want to heal the world by my words.

Your words swept me away in the river of your feelings!

I don't like talking. I am a writer!

Writing is the knitting of the soul

Wild fires burn within my soul, there's where all my words rise from...

To search for an indefinable something in a world rife with photocopies is to try the unknown!

I am just a traveler traveling by.

A row is looking long enough with good and bad souls. Bad ones are feeling overwhelmed and pleasing for having a good life on earth. Good ones are now following them.

I became a poet long before I learnt how to walk. My mother, a poet, made me a poet in her womb!

The wise man listens to the women in his life.

The first fact of the world is that it repeats itself. I had been taught to believe that the freshness of children lay in their capacity for wonder at the vividness and strangeness of the particular, but what is fresh in them is that they still experience the power of repetition, from which our first sense of the power of mastery comes. Though predictable is an ugly little world in daily life, in our first experience of it we are clued to the hope of a shapeliness in things. To see that power working on adults, you have to catch them out: the look of foolish happiness on the faces of people who have just sat down to dinner is their knowledge that dinner will be served. Probably, that is the psychological basis for the power and the necessity of artistic form...Maybe our first experience of form is the experience of our own formation...And I am not thinking mainly of poems about form; I’m thinking of the form of a poem, the shape of its understanding. The presence of that shaping constitutes the presence of poetry.

You must remember that your story matters. What you write has the power to save a life, sometimes that life is your own.

I think there are two types of writers, the architects and the gardeners. The architects plan everything ahead of time, like an architect building a house. They know how many rooms are going to be in the house, what kind of roof they're going to have, where the wires are going to run, what kind of plumbing there's going to be. They have the whole thing designed and blueprinted out before they even nail the first board up. The gardeners dig a hole, drop in a seed and water it. They kind of know what seed it is, they know if planted a fantasy seed or mystery seed or whatever. But as the plant comes up and they water it, they don't know how many branches it's going to have, they find out as it grows. And I'm much more a gardener than an architect.