Writing Life Quotes

The inspired words, which flush my mind, come from a higher power!

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Her words are her wings. She's flying.

~ A.d. Posey

The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for the duration on a diet of isolation, rejection, self-doubt, despair, ridicule, contempt, and humiliation.

~ Steven Pressfield

In eleven or twelve years of writing, Mike, I can lay claim to at least this: I have never written beneath myself. I have never written anything that I didn't want my name attached to. I have probed deeper in some scripts and I've been more successful in some than others. But all of them that have been on, you know, I'll take my lick. They're mine and that's the way I wanted them.

~ Rod Serling

All of life is an amphitheater where we each serve as an appreciative member of the audience until the sublime play ends with our death. The chapters and verses in our life story reflect what we value – how appreciative we are for our time to work, play, laugh, cry, and create.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

I have occupied this idle, empty winter with writing a story. It has been written to please myself, without thought of my own vanity or modesty, without regard for other people's feelings, without considering whether I shock or hurt the living, without scrupling to speak of the dead.The world, I know, is changing. I am not indifferent to the revolution that has caught us in its mighty skirts, to the enormity of the flood that is threatening to submerge us. But what could I do? In the welter of the surrounding storm, I have taken refuge for a moment on this little raft, constructed with the salvage of my memory. I have tried to steer it into that calm haven of art in which I still believe. I have tried to avoid some of the rocks and sandbanks that guard its entrance.[from the introduction]

~ Dorothy Bussy

Some artists benefit less from being interviewed than they do from being left alone.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.- Toni Morrison

~ Sean Liburd

You're never as good a writer as you think you are, and you're never as bad. Just keep reading and writing, writing, writing.

~ Don Roff

A person can escape an ingrained pattern of mental incapacity or ‘non compos mentis’ (“no power of the mind”) by reading, writing, thinking, and studying their environment for telling external determinates that will shape a journey of the mind, body, and soul.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Reading, writing, listening to music, skipping rope, flying kites, taking long walks along the sea, hiking in the crisp mountain air, all serve a joint purpose: these self-initiated acts free us from the drudgery of life. These forms of physical and mental exercises release the mind to roam uninhibited, such collaborative types of mind and body actions take people away from their physical pains and emotional grievances. A reprieve from the crippling grind of sameness allows personal imagination to soar. Imagination, a form of dreaming, is inherently pleasant and restorative. It is within these moments of personal introspection stolen from the industry of surviving that humankind touches upon the absolute truth of life: that there must be something more to living then merely getting by; the fundamental human condition thirsts for a way to improve upon the vestment that shelters our self-absorbed lives.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

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

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

I am not a supporter of burning books; but like poison, some books should be kept away from simple minds who can't take in the strong content they provide

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Until you begin to write, then you see wonders.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

One author said I write because I want to live a footprint in the sands of history.” It's hard to live a footprint in the sands of history when giants are passing through the same sands unless you are one of the giants

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Life consists of books. All experiences are stories to be told and must be written.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Upon reading, great stories by Great Spirits, the glorious inspiration penetrated our soul; we can’t help but to shed tears. It was a soul soothing and a deep spiritual awaken.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Creativity begins with a walk with nature.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Sometimes it's better for a struggling writer to stay single, than to keep hearing, Oh, your a writer, and you need to spend time in writing? Then go marry your writing!

~ Anthony Liccione

We write to give strength to our soul and to inspire spirit of other souls.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Lord I thank you for the gift of breath, eyes to see, ears to hear, tongue to taste, nose to smell, mouth to speak, face to smile, voice to sing, body to dance, legs to walk, mind to think and hands to write.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Lord I thank you for the wise-words and grace to write.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Lord I thank you for the gift of breath, eyes to see, ears to hear, tongue to taste, nose to smell; mouth to speak, face to smile, voice to sing, body to dance, legs to walk, mind to think and hands to write.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I'd give you my heart, but you'd just give it back, so I'll give you my words instead.

~ N'zuri Za Austin

One day, I decided I was going to write books forever.

~ Carla H. Krueger

Is life a fantasy or fairy tales?

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You don't have INSOMNIA. You're a writer with an unfinished book!

~ T.n. Suarez

What God has written for your life. No human being can alter it.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I'd written Smashed not because I was ambitious and not because writing down my feelings was cathartic (it felt more like playing one's own neurosurgeon sans anesthesia). No. I'd made a habit--and eventually a profession--of memoir because I hail from one of those families where shows of emotions are discouraged.

~ Koren Zailckas

By reading, we will know the minds of great soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Imagination is a divine mind.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

In order to protect their good names for posterity, many writers never wrote what they thought or the truth as it stood. That's why truth still lies hidden in matters of power, sex and religion. No wonder they chose to do so, many who dared paid with their heads

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

The story comes, and it is pure story. That's all I set out to write. But I don't believe that we can write any kind of story without including, whether we intend to or not, our response to the world around us.

~ Madeleine L'engle

Life is more than one genre'.

~ Juliette Power

The self-addressed stamped envelope. The representation of everything that was wrong with the old publishing industry.

~ Alexei Maxim Russell

I’m proud to be a writer. I’m doing the job all my heroes did.

~ Carla H. Krueger

Fantasy is an excellent platform to shine new lights on old truths.

~ James D. Maxon

Confession: I don't want to be one of my characters. I'm mean to them sometimes. Really mean.

~ Michelle M. Pillow

I know, not everyone will like what I write, but writing is not about trying to please everybody.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

Thankfully existing only in SMALL pockets within our discipline, is “intellectual” snobbery. It’s a hushed but ugly truth that people are made to feel not worthy to be among a certain set – didn’t attend the right school or don’t have the requisite abbreviations to follow their name. I know what that feels like. Good thing I'm pigheaded, have a bigger vision and committed to my craft, or I would’ve succumbed to it long ago. That is why when I meet an emerging writer who’s serious about developing their craft, I try to encourage them as much as I can. I say IGNORE the highbrow cliques and prove your mettle by growing, accepting balanced feedback and most of all, creating work that will stand the test of time. Period.

~ Sandra Sealy