Writing Quotes

Imagination is glow of thoughts by supernatural force.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Like most arts, the link between the mind and the pen can chain you like an enslaved workaholic. Even on an intended vacation you suddenly have this killer urge to record whatever the vacation may teach.

~ Criss Jami

I would willingly pass my life writing and re-writing the same book - that one book every writer carries within him - the image of his own soul.

~ Ignazio Silone

As a boy, reading was my religion. It helped me to discover my soul. Later, writing helped me to record its journey.

~ Ruskin Bond

Do you think your soul is more beautiful than your body?

~ Tamara Stamenkovic

The pages afforded glimpses into my soul where I'd hidden it, behind masks of paper and ink.

~ Rachel L. Schade

This moment will disappear and another one will come. And one day, i will sit down and i will try to count them.Full of surprise i will ask myself Have I really lived so many moments? I know that they are nevertheless countless and diurnal.But now that you came, every second is different, so different that when it's gone,vacancy fills the place. It goes away, and the person who's yearning for moments like this stays there, praying to live them once more.Just for a thousandth,LASTTIME.

~ Phoebe Melano

The best writing speaks when the heart whispers.

~ A.d. Posey

Crying cleanses the soul.

~ A.d. Posey

Close your eyes. Hear the silent snow. Listen to your soul speak.

~ A.d. Posey

Give all of life’s oxygen to the fire that is your soul.

~ A.d. Posey

Fly with a kind heart, a light spirit, and a resilient soul.

~ A.d. Posey

I have the heart of an artist and the soul of a writer.

~ A.d. Posey

Good food warms the heart and feeds the soul.

~ A.d. Posey

Epiphanies awaken the soul.

~ A.d. Posey

If you don’t think screenwriting is a work of art, good luck in your life without a soul.

~ A.d. Posey

Write what speaks to your soul.

~ A.d. Posey

The personal screenplay- where you dive into the terrifying depths of your soul, unearth the most intimate details about yourself, and put it on paper for the world to see. Proceed with caution, for madness lies ahead.

~ A.d. Posey

A writer’s uniqueness glows and transforms the heart and the soul of a reader.

~ A.d. Posey

Writing in the dark is hard, but you have to light your own candle and do it anyway.

~ A.d. Posey

Writing is like breathing for my soul.

~ A.d. Posey

I am made of words. Cut me & I bleed sentences. Read me, & I speak to your soul.

~ Chloe Thurlow

In the end, every startup is different. But in the beginning every startup is the same.

~ Richie Norton

Your need to feel significant will never be met, until you can conquer your fear and manage your focus.

~ Shannon L. Alder

But then, that’s the beauty of writing stories—each one is an exploratory journey in search of a reason and a shape. And when you find that reason and that shape, there’s no feeling lik

~ T.c. Boyle

It starts off like climbing a tree or solving a puzzle - poetry, if nothing else, is just fun to write. But deeper into each and every piece, you no longer hesitate to call it work. It's passion. A poet's sense of lyrical accomplishment is then his food and water, his means of survival.

~ Criss Jami

The true artist plays mad with his soul, labors at the very lip of the volcano, but remembers and clings to his purpose, which is as strong as the dream. He is not someone possessed, like Cassandra, but a passionate, easily tempted explorer who fully intends to get home again, like Odysseus.

~ John Gardner

Just as writing can become calligraphy when it’s creatively, skillfully, and consciously performed, so can all other activities become art. In this case, we are reflecting upon life itself as an artistic statement—the art of living.

~ H.e. Davey

Tortured Soul 101: The depth of despair one experiences during the creative process (as experienced say, in an abysmally blank page or canvas) is directly proportional to the scope and power of the work that emerges when it breaks.

~ F.t. Mckinstry

We’re all pros already. 1) We show up every day 2) We show up no matter what 3) We stay on the job all day 4) We are committed over the long haul 5) The stakes for us are high and real 6) We accept remuneration for our labor 7) We do not overidentify with our jobs 8 ) We master the technique of our jobs 9) We have a sense of humor about our jobs 10) We receive praise or blame in the real world

~ Steven Pressfield

Inking is meditation in liquid form...

~ J.h. Everett

This apparent hurly-burly and disorder turn out, after all, to reproduce real life with its fantastic ways more accurately than the most carefully studied out drama of manners. Every man is in himself all humanity, and if he writes what occurs to him he succeeds better than if he copies, with the help of a magnifying glass, objects placed outside of him.

~ Théophile Gautier

We live today amid ritualized anithumanisms. Among those intelligent enough to feel despair, some seek salvation in the literary artist. Artists love flattery; and the scam doesn't work without mystifying the process.The weather is unpredictable, but it is not mysterious.Wall Street is unpredictable, but it is not mysterious. Writing is unpredictable, (like street and sky, there are too many variables.) Its mystery vanishes, like a shadow, the moment the light aimed at your characters turns back upon yourself.

~ Doran Larson

But if I am not a criminal, I beg to be permitted to go abroad with my wife temporarily, for at least one year, with the right to return as soon as it becomes possible in our country to serve great ideas in literature without cringing before little men, as soon as there is at least a partial change in the prevailing view concerning the role of the literary artist. (“Letter To Stalin”)

~ Yevgeny Zamyatin

What we need in literature today are vast philosophic horizons; we need the most ultimate, the most fearsome, the most fearless 'Why?' and 'What next?'(Literature, Revolution, and Entropy)

~ Yevgeny Zamyatin

Nothing is owed to us in life, not even the innocence of a blue sky. Great art is the art of thankfulness for the abundance of every moment. Writing is a Chinese variant of this thankfulness, a courtesy to life in its cloak of nothing, lined with love.

~ Christian Bobin

Writing is hard. Writing that is good, writing that is powerful enough to evoke a change or an authentic emotion or even just an idea in another human being is about as mysterious as an alchemical recipe, but there are a few known ingredients. Craft? Yes, absolutely. Devotion? A load - yes! Humility? Not vital, I suppose, but all my favorites include at least a dash. Before those can be added to the cauldron though, you must have a base of Honesty. Honesty is difficult to find in public spaces these days (and getting harder every goddamn day) but if you're quiet, and patient, you can usually find some hidden in your room somewhere. (It helps to turn off the lights, for some reason.) Problem is, Honesty is invariably bound to Vulnerability and the only thing that cuts the bitterness of Vulnerability is Courage. And Courage? Well. Courage is the hardest thing of all.

~ Kelly Sue Deconnick

Every child has known God,Not the God of names,Not the God of don'ts,Not the God who ever doesAnything weird,But the God who knows only 4 wordsAnd keeps repeating them, saying:Come Dance with Me.Come Dance.

~ Hafiz

Life is a collection of memories and feelings. Mawkish sentimentally urges us to engage in artistic overtures, we yearn to share with other people a melody of rudimentary experiences and respond to a stabilizing tune strung together with a shared ethos. We walk in parallel strides with our brethren seeking out equivalent affirmations of our being. We long to shout out to the world that we once walked this earth; we seek to leave in our wake traces of our pithy habitation. Our unfilled longing propels us into committing senseless acts of self-sabotage and then we desperately seek redemption from our slippery selves by building monuments to the human spirit. We employ a bewildering blend of conscious and unconscious materials to construct synoptic testaments to our temporal existence. We labor on the canvas of our choosing to scrawl our inimitable mark, fanatically toiling to escape a sentence of total obliteration along with our impending mortality.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

I could never be a Communist. I could never be regimented. I could never be told what to write.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald