Writing Quotes Quotes

Her words dance on the page.

~ A.d. Posey

Only cowards leave words unspoken.

~ A.d. Posey

The power of classical music turns my words into fire.

~ A.d. Posey

Be careful what you say and do around a writer, your words and actions may become material.

~ A.d. Posey

I fight evil, and words are my weapons of choice.

~ A.d. Posey

Love writes without words.

~ A.d. Posey

I’m addicted to words. The only way to get my fix is to write and read.

~ K.d. Green

Fight the darkness. Fight for the light.

~ A.d. Posey

Wherever you are, wherever you go, be sure to spread the light.

~ A.d. Posey

A day’s brightness is determined by the light in our hearts.

~ A.d. Posey

Don’t confuse the darkness that’s leaving with the light that’s coming in.

~ A.d. Posey

Be the light.

~ A.d. Posey

Sometimes you have to take a shot in the dark to discover the light.

~ A.d. Posey

Vulnerability lets in light.

~ A.d. Posey

Light your fire.

~ A.d. Posey

See your light.

~ A.d. Posey

Have the discipline to listen to and to trust your instincts.

~ A.d. Posey

The grace of writing is upon me.I love writing. I write daily.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

In a suspended psychic state, writers cull words and symbols from the mystical world of memory, imagination, and intuition.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

We are inspired by divine power to write.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You can't write a story until you've felt it. Breathed it in. Walked with your characters. Talked with them. That's why you come here. To live your story.

~ Angela Banks

There are times when I'm writing where time feels irrelevant. Those are the moments I know I'm creating magic.

~ Anastasia Bolinder

There is magic in the old and magic in the new, the trick is to successfully combine the two.

~ A.d. Posey

Live whatever draws out the magic within.

~ A.d. Posey

Once you realize life is magic, you will never look upon the world with dimmed eyes again.

~ A.d. Posey

For the philosopher, language, thought, and passion are the same. Ideas are personal to a philosopher; they express their human passion and articulate their novel ideas in language. Ideas are more than mere concepts, trifles that the philosophical mind toys with. Ideas provide both the structure and inner vitality that holds great thinkers’ conceptual structure together.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Writing on dark themes is not as easy as one might think; you have to live the worst and the most terrifying nightmares, again and again, till they consume you entirely and become an inseparable part of you that you start dreading.

~ Heena Rathore P.

Laughter lights up the darkness.

~ A.d. Posey

You can curse the darkness, or you can dispel it.

~ A.d. Posey

The communication function of modern writers is akin to the ancient role fulfilled by tribal shamans. All writers ultimately perform a shamanistic role in society, their mythmaking voices speak to us from the underworld after their passage to the other side. Writers place themselves in a trance-like state where their unconscious mind dictates to them what to write.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

In the writer's mind, even a backstory has a backstory.

~ Terry A O'neal

A writer is not born but made through study and sheer willpower and ability to embrace beauty and agony.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Each of us, along with our ancestors, inhabits the same cosmos. When we tell stories, we enter the stream of human consciousness; we take with us into the Ring of Time the people whom we crossed paths with in our earthly sojourn.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Every book adds a grain of humility and humanity to the communal ground that we tread. Writing is the one method that the modern shaman employs to interpret reality and create messages that will provide a beacon of light to other members of our tribe. So long as ignorance, misery, and confusion remain on earth, and people look to expand their state of awareness, books that contribute to the aesthetics of despair, a world composed of mist and shadows cannot be useless. Writing is a personal effort to coexist with the banality, tedium, and anguish of living a fated life. Writing is a shamanistic act of faith because seeking to link thoughts together in order to understand how one fits into nature’s wonderland is a quest for unity and wholeness, the ultimate medicinal poultices that all self-disciplined shaman and alchemistic writers aspire to achieve.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

You do not need to be temperamental or upset to be a novelist. Don’t embrace the tortured artist rhetoric that any life difficulties might serve to benefit and enhance your writing. That’s damaging. Counterintuitive. Writing can be so incredibly lonely, and when you’re alone with your thoughts for long enough to produce a hundred thousand words of your own headspace, it can be scary. Suffering is not good for your art. Mental health care is. So talk to someone other than your future readers about the problems you are facing. Someone you know and trust. There is no shame in asking for help.

~ Bryant A. Loney

Recounting the narrative of our personal story in a methodical and chronological manner helps us see our life in a historical perspective. Telling our personal stories allows us to bring hibernated memories out of seclusion. Reexamination of our historical existence under the light of growing conscious awareness assist us make psychological breakthroughs. Analyzing the elemental substance of our personal story from a sundry of viewpoints employing techniques of literature, philosophy, logical reasoning, and abstract thinking assist us perceive our discrete chronicle in symbolic terms and in mythological context.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Writers use both their blood and their brains to explore the darkest recesses of their pooling self. Writing allows us to harness the whimsy of the collaborative mind and body, pull our tissue apart like taffy, and expose the composition of our life sustaining organs. Telling our personal story forces us to account for any actions that made us laugh, cry, scream and shout, or hide behind a cloak of mootness. Critical examination of the self allows one to disintegrate the envelope of their present personality and make up a new imaging.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.

~ Gertrude Stein

Today is the day that you create worlds, you change lives, you make a something, a someone, out of nothing.Today is the day you become a writer.

~ Alessandra Torre

Art translates human souls. Each passing eon’s public display of sophisticated hieroglyphics cast a unique depiction upon the rudimentary art of survival. Humankind cannot exist without the makeshift paradigm of innovative art, which genuine amoeba expresses elusive and unsayable thoughts. Humankind’s gallery of artistic impressions ranges from the starkness of personified cave drawings to the free ranging lexis of modern art. Collection of multihued stories of the ages portrays the vivid panoply of enigmatic vitas etched by humankind’s self-imposed sense of urgency. Each passing generation’s effusion of trope offerings seamlessly folds its shared renderings into the shimmering panorama of the cosmos, the sparkling nightscape that houses the intangible life force all communal souls.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster