Quotes Tagged "writers-quotes"

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.

Writing is the knitting of the soul

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!

...But...to sing, to dream, to smile, to walk, to be alone, be free, with a voice that stirs and an eye that still can see! To cock your hat to one side, when you please at a yes, a no, to fight, or- make poetry! To work without a thought of fame or fortune, on that journey, that you dream of, to the moon! Never to write a line that's not your own...

A person can suffer from a lack of dreams.

Anyone who says writing is easy isn't doing it right.

Writing is the dragon that lives underneath my floorboards. The one I incessantly feed for fear it may turn and devour my ass. Writing is the friend who doesn't return my phone calls; the itch I'm unable to scratch; a dinner invitation from a cannibal; elevator music for a narcoleptic. Writing is the hope of lifting all boats by pissing in the ocean. Writing isn't something that makes me happy like a good cup of coffee. It's just something I do because not writing, as I've found, is so much worse.

I used to be afraid about what people might say or think after reading what I had written. I am not afraid anymore, because when I write, I am not trying to prove anything to anyone, I am just expressing myself and my opinions. It’s ok if my opinions are different from those of the reader, each of us can have his own opinions. So writing is like talking, if you are afraid of writing, you may end up being afraid of talking

The power of a writer is that he is a god of sorts. He can create his own worlds and populate them with his own people, all by the powers of his imagination. It's the closest a man can come close to the gods. No wonder the most successful writers are considered immortals

A critic is a legless man who teaches other people to run

Many writers write because they’ve been there, seen that, did it and burnt their fingers

Don't believe in everything that is written. Not everything that is written is true

If I can write, who possibly can’t. Even drawing a line in the sand is writing

What I've learned about writing is that sometimes less is more, while often more is grander. And both are true.

... The Book is more important than your plans for it. You have to go with what works for The Book ~ if your ideas appear hollow or forced when they are put on paper, chop them, erase them, pulverise them and start again. Don't whine when things are not going your way, because they are going the right way for The Book, which is more important. The show must go on, and so must The Book.

A hopeful heart can pacify the unhealed scars with a touch of faith and a pinch belief.

There are many irrational illusions make the sadness of nonsense. But why the blind can see and the deaf can hear, it is for one single real reason. And that is the language of good sense and joy.

There are many irrational illusions which make the sadness of nonsense. But why the blind can see and the deaf can hear, it is for one single real reason. And that is the language of good sense and joy.

I think I found the meaning of life. And that is to have two free days, in one day!