Writing Quotes Quotes

Don’t wish the world demanded less of you. Rise up and exceed its standards.

~ A.d. Posey

Writers wake up the world.

~ A.d. Posey

The world is blessed to welcome you.

~ A.d. Posey

A great director gives life to a work of art- gives it a heartbeat… a pulse… opens its eyes to the world.

~ A.d. Posey

The world is a woven basket. Every stitch counts.

~ A.d. Posey

Open your arms to the world.

~ A.d. Posey

Film makes me feel less alone in the world.

~ A.d. Posey

To my words: There was once a wall between us. Now we walk together and greet the world.

~ A.d. Posey

Be what the world needs.

~ A.d. Posey

Don’t let the world tell you who you are. You get up and you tell the world who you are.

~ A.d. Posey

Positive thoughts shape a positive world.

~ A.d. Posey

The world is with you.

~ A.d. Posey

How could people not believe in magic when the whole world is made of it?

~ A.d. Posey

Look upon the world with wonder.

~ A.d. Posey

In the very end, all we have left to atone for our faults are words.

~ Kamand Kojouri

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

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

Have the courage to walk in truth, the strength to love always, and the integrity to never stray away from doing so.

~ A.d. Posey

A life of devotion to one's passion gives us meaning to our life.

~ Avijeet Das

A writer needs solitude : moments that he can spend in introspection and in reflection. These moments make him pensive and thoughtful and help him write his thoughts with clarity. A life of devotion to one's passion gives us meaning to our life.

~ Avijeet Das

They say instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of clichés, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising. However, who has not hung on a scripture, a quote, a statement, only to stumble upon the key phrase that brought all things to a turning point? The greatest sermons and speeches were pieced together by illuminating thoughts that powered men to surpass their own commonness. It is the sparkling magic of letters forming words, and those words colliding with passion, that makes statements into wisdom.

~ Shannon L. Alder

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

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Our stories hold unique inspiration for one another.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Fiction operates through the senses, and I think one reason that people find it so difficult to write stories is that they forget how much time and patience is required to convince through the senses. No reader who doesn't actually experience, who isn't made to feel, the story is going to believe anything the fiction writer merely tells him. The first and most obvious characteristic of fiction is that it deals with reality through what can be seen, heard, smelt, tasted, and touched.

~ Flannery O'connor

Treat backstory like a pungent spice. I say this to encourage you to picture a jalapeno pepper that can set your mouth on fire, every time you even think about adding backstory into your book. What you need is subtlety.

~ Sandy Vaile

Backstory is like a flavour you can’t quite pick, lurking in the layers of a curry. You know it’s there and it enhances the flavour, but it’s intangible and fleeting. Use it sparingly!

~ Sandy Vaile

Delayed gratification hints that something terrible is going to happen, and then delays the resolution. It’s that interval between the promise of something awful and it actually happening, where suspense resides.

~ Sandy Vaile

Suspense doesn’t always have to be about physical danger. Making the reader worry is a universal concept that can be applied to any story.

~ Sandy Vaile

Fiction is entertaining. Nonfiction is epic.

~ A.d. Posey

Writing fiction is fun. Writing non-fiction is life-changing.

~ A.d. Posey

Audiences will admire your character’s strength but connect with them through their weakness.

~ Don Roff

Learning is essential for living the life you love.

~ A.d. Posey

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

Creativity is magic in the making.

~ A.d. Posey

Creativity is divine.

~ A.d. Posey

You can’t undo the past, but you can remedy it by creating a better future.

~ A.d. Posey

Don’t let the poison of the past spoil a fruitful future.

~ A.d. Posey

Talent and work ethic are nothing without belief.

~ A.d. Posey

Writing evinces the soul of an active mind and every era produced persons whom devoted their being to exploring the mysteries of life, seeking to discern answers pertaining how to resolve the complexities and paradoxes of life.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

You are lucky to be one of those people who wishes to build sand castles with words, who is willing to create a place where your imagination can wander.

~ Anne Lamott