Writing Life Quotes

It's all mine, it's all sacred.

~ Coco J. Ginger

I felt condemned to obscurity and to celibacy. But when one is driven by passion, one can live on almost nothing, and I was driven by passion for writing. One does not starve in modern, Western societies, and one can do without such amenities as the telephone, a car, entertainment.

~ Alain Robbe-Grillet

Doing what you love is a sacred life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I wish to continue reading.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I have only dwelt in my thoughts.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Sometimes you have to go a little crazy before you can find sanity. I think I'm close.

~ Tawny Lara

As an author I'm in my head all day and I worry that I lose touch with reality. But then my dog pees on my shoe and I know I've found it again.

~ Michelle M. Pillow

We travel with our thoughts to great lands.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Daring soul has five diaries; gratitude, work, inspirational, prayer and language diaries.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It galls me that seeking out the seedy, the sordid, the sexual, and the deviant is the expected (if not altogether acceptable) behavior of male writers; it would surely benefit me, as a writer, if I had the courage to seek out more of the seedy, the sordid, the sexual, and the deviant myself. But women who seek out such things are made to feel ashamed, or else they sound stridently ridiculous in defending themselves -- as if they're bragging. ... Yet there are subjects that remain off-limits for women writers. It's not unlike that dichotomy which exists regarding one's sexual past: it is permissible, even attractive, for a man to have had one, but if a woman has had a sexual past, she'd better keep quiet about it.

~ John Irving

Henry had written a novel because there was a hole in him that needed filling, a question that needed answering, a patch of canvas that needed painting—that blend of anxiety, curiosity and joy that is at the origin of art—and he had filled the hole, answered the question, splashed colour on the canvas, all done for himself, because he had to. Then complete strangers told him that his book had filled a hole in them, had answered a question, had brought colour to their lives. The comfort of strangers, be it a smile, a pat on the shoulder or a word of praise, is truly a comfort.

~ Yann Martel

The pen is mightier than the sword as long as it doesn't run out of ink.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The power of writing supernaturally set things into motion.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Our stories hold unique inspiration for one another.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I like what I do. Some writers have said in print that they hated writing and it was just a chore and a burden. I certainly don't feel that way about it. Sometimes it's difficult. You know, you always have this image of the perfect thing which you can never achieve, but which you never stop trying to achieve. But I think ... that's your signpost and your guide. You'll never get there, but without it you won't get any

~ Cormac Mccarthy

The type of mind that can understand good fiction is not necessarily the educated mind, but it is at all times the kind of mind that is willing to have its sense of mystery deepened by contact with reality, and its sense of reality depend by contact with mystery. Fiction should be both canny and uncanny. In a good deal of popular criticism, there is the notion operating that all fiction has to be about the Average Man, and has to depict average ordinary everyday life, that every fiction writer must produce what used to be called a slice of life. But if life, in that sense, satisfied us, there would be no sense in producing literature at all.

~ Flannery O'connor

If you are writing fiction, think like a god. Release all the power of your imagination; create worlds and destroy them at your will, create as many miracles as your story needs

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

First time I ever put pen to paper, I had one goal – to build something no one had ever thought of before.

~ Carla H. Krueger

I long for some connection, to the real and those who love them, and hope that my fiction can reach beyond the veil, that I might touch someone and make them feel something…or something.

~ Shannon Celebi

For me, at least, fiction is the only way i can even begin to twist my lying memories into something true.

~ John Green

I love my career. It is a career. A difficult one that takes many hours and total dedication to my craft. It is also what I was born to do--tell stories and entertain.

~ Michelle M. Pillow

People should know better than to be an ass in front of writers. We immortalize things. Lots of things. And we take liberties with character descriptions.

~ Michelle M. Pillow

Bad feminism seems like the only way I can both embrace myself as a feminist and be myself, and so I write. I chatter away on Twitter about everything that makes me angry and all the small things that bring me joy. I write blog posts about the meals I cook as I try to take better care of myself, and with each new entry, I realize that I'm undestroying myself after years of allowing myself to stay damaged.

~ Roxane Gay

My plan was to never get married. I was going to be an art monster instead. Women almost never become art monsters because art monsters only concern themselves with art, never mundane things. Nabokov didn't even fold his own umbrella. Vera licked his stamps for him.

~ Jenny Offill

We write to shed our sorrows and give strength to our spirit.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We write to give strength to our souls and souls of others.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Life's a book filled on pages Just awaiting to be written.Some don't open it for ages,Maybe afraid of being bitten.

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

To wonder is to recreate a sacred self.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Love is the bee that carries the pollen from one heart to another.

~ Slash Coleman

Why does everyone think a guy who prefers love to people is missing something in his life?

~ Slash Coleman

I am part of everyone I ever dated on OK Cupid.

~ Slash Coleman

All forms of writing are an act of conception; writing must lead to creation. Each time that we write, we begin again. Writing is an act of self-affirmation. Each time that we place our thoughts onto paper, we receive a new opportunity to claim our reality. Writing is also an act of explication and deconstruction. Writing empowers us to shape and modify our fiery constitutions. Writing allows us to explore the essential ingredients that lead to a life of serenity by exhibiting compassion, love, patience, generosity, and forgiveness.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

We can help the next generation, with the stories we write today.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Write like you have many readers.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I travel to know the life of great souls in the pages of a book.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

To ask how I feel about writing is to ask how I feel about breathing.

~ Shakirah Bourne

Writing and other efforts to produce an enduring piece of artwork is a gallant response to the prospect of death. Every person knows that they must die, and consequently people build elaborate symbolic defenses mechanism to shield themselves from knowledge of their impermanence. Every person possesses autonomy of the will, the ability to choose how to conduct their life. The freedom to act towards objects is ultimately useless; it provides a person with no sense of meaning and supplies no purpose to life because a mere collection of objects will not transcend their physical demise. An artist does not deny their impermanence but embraces the prospect of their death by laboring to create a monument of their existence that will survive their expiry.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Grab a pen and your turf will have no limits.

~ Nadun Lokuliyanage

A writer is a thought smith, he educates men to think for themselves

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

The world would have been a better place if some men had just shut their mouths.

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana