Writing is like surfing on a wild sea, in the middle of a moonless night, in a hailstorm, on a deserted island.Yeah... that about sums it up.
~ Heena Rathore P.
A real piece of writing is one in which the writer has tried to enrich not only the book, but also his understanding of the words. The words themselves have to be open to new ideas and suggestions, and the writer himself must have the audacity to attempt new things and to risk failure
~ Karl Wiggins
Every one of the big breakthroughs in the art of literature have possibly started as what many would call a ludicrous or even laughable idea as the writer occasionally balances a routine piece with an investment in the eccentric and untried. Over time, the reward is usually worth the risk
You need the devotion to your work that a priest of God has for his.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I have no talent; it's just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.
~ Graham Greene
No art ever came out of not risking your neck.
~ Eudora Welty
Don’t live with a lover or roommate who doesn’t respect your work.
~ Grace Paley
In reading we live hundreds lives, in writing we live thousands of lives.
~ R.m. Donaldson
The biggest laughs are based on the biggest disappointments and the biggest fears.
~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I feel like part of getting better at writing is knowing where to find that inspiration. Right after something happens to me, the first thing I’ll do is go write when those feelings are really, really fresh.
~ Troye Sivan
I believe that, for those who love to write, time spent writing is never wasted. And then isn't it from book to book that we approach the book that we really want to write?
~ Elena Ferrante
Write what you love. Passion is the key to a good story.
A writer seeks to discover a lucid state of creative consciousness uncoiling from a boule of internal disequilibrium and dutifully attempts to bridge that cavernous divide between the known and the unknown and articulate raw truths.
~ Kilroy J. Oldster
If, when you wake up in the morning, you can think of nothing but writing then you are a writer”Se alla mattina quando ti alzi non pensi altro che allo scrivere allora sei uno scrittore
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Life. Is a sentence, therein, weave your story toward freedom.
~ Jt Sanz
As a writer, the main skill you need is curiosity. As a reader, the main tool you need is open-mindedness.
~ Gloria D. Gonsalves
Becoming a writer does not mean words will suddenly flow with perfection from your pen. It takes hard work, rejection, and the willingness to lay everything inside you out for the world to see.
~ Jason E. Hodges
It was the worst--the bleakest, the most physically exhausting, the most emotionally enervating--writing experience I'd had...I felt, and feared, that the book was controlling me, somehow, as if I'd somehow become possessed by it.
~ Hanya Yanagihara
I like to think I’ve written something worth reading when I cry the tears of the characters.
~ Carla H. Krueger
The skill of writing needs much patience, practicing, and time. There is no good writing from a quick effort, or a confused writer.
~ Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi
A chef’s magic is his ingredients, how he can substitute one for another, then break with convention by changing it all around again without once referring to the recipe. And then just at the death complete the beauty by adding another element never previously thought of. Well words are the writer’s sorcery, our dark arts and our sleight of hand. They’re our enchantment and our temptation. Sometimes both the chef and the writer overindulges himself and it gets out of hand, but that’s how we like it, it’s how we’ve ghosted some of our best creations.
When you hurt one of your characters and then type faster to finish a scene while saying, I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!
~ A.r. Fagundes
Write what you wish with your soul and your heart will fill the page with your unique magic.
~ Ben Tolosa
The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself.
~ Flannery O'connor
If a novel was a map of a country, a story was the bright silver pin that marked the crossroads.
~ Ann Patchett
think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.
~ Irvine Welsh
I believe that fiction with its untrammelled nature, speaks to no one, and by so doing, speaks to all.
~ Chigozie Obioma
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.
~ William Inge
Don't say it was delightful; make us say delightful when we've read the description.
~ C.s. Lewis
Never underestimate the power of the written word, especially when you put them down in your own voice.
~ Cheryl L. Ilov
Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.
~ James Baldwin
I suppose I had some meaning when I wrote it, I believe I understood it then.
~ George Gordon Byron
When I write, I enter a transpersonal state of consciousness, a lightheaded realm of mental imagination, a cognitive place where I can lithely finger the coherent and the absurd. I seek to cross over an intricate boarder where the conscious and unconscious minds meet, traversing the aperture where the real and the imaginary intermingle. I aspire to establish a detached vantage point where I can survey the entire human condition.
Writing reflects life and life is a mystery. All any of us can do is press the fleet footed beauty of life close to our flesh and use whatever instruments are within our grasp to express the evanescent spark of mysticism that resides within us.
Writing's in the nouns.
~ Lori Roy
Set fire to cities and nations, to hearts and minds, to the very core of every human spirit. Make sure your words seep into the skin of the reader, leaving trace minerals that sustain the ailing human shell. Make them pay attention. Set fire to the soul. Anything less is an abomination to creation.
~ Susan Marie
Never use the passive voice. Do not say, 'It will get done.' Say, 'I'll do it,' and then stick to a solid, unwavering deadline
~ Gina Barreca
A rain forest springs from the droppings of animals and grows greater than any cultivated garden; likewise, a great mass of literary skill springs from the droppings of writers that cross our minds through the reading we do.
~ Agona Apell
We will read books together inside the blanket and stay warm. And keep writing poetry in our respective journals. Time will fly but we will still remain inside the blanket forever.
~ Avijeet Das
Your sensitivity, your tenderness, your eyes make me pick up my pen and write, Mrignayni!
