Writing Quotes

When that little clock on my wall says “Olaotan! Olaotan!! Olaotan!!! It’s half past time to write”, I only have three things at my disposal: A pen, A piece of paper, and a crowded mind.

~ Olaotan Fawehinmi

... All who have brought about a state of sex-consciousness are to blame, and it is they who drive me, when I want to stretch my faculties on a book, to seek it in that happy age ... when the writer used both sides of his mind [the male and female sides of his mind] equally. One must turn back to Shakespeare then, for Shakespeare was androgynous; and so were Keats and Sterne and Cowper and Lamb and Coleridge. Shelley perhaps was sexless. Milton and Ben Jonson had a dash too much of the male in them. So had Wordsworth and Tolstoy.

~ Virginia Woolf

I began writing about power because I had so little.

~ Octavia E. Butler

Word-Power'Being stuck in my room,I've become a world traveler.If you wonder how...just guess how I've reached you right now

~ Munia Khan

In order to protect their good names for posterity, many writers never wrote what they thought or the truth as it stood. That's why truth still lies hidden in matters of power, sex and religion. No wonder they chose to do so, many who dared paid with their heads

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

[Everything you write is] not simply a collection of words, but a means of influence not to be taken lightly. Let your recipient's emotions be the gondola, and your words, its gondolier.

~ A.j. Darkholme

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

His style as a writer places him in the category of the immortals, and his courage as a critic outlives the bitter battles in which he engaged. As a result, we use the word 'Orwellian' in two senses: The first describes a nightmare state, a dystopia of untrammelled power; the second describes the human qualities that are always ranged in resistance to such regimes, and that may be more potent and durable than we sometimes dare to think.

~ Christopher Hitchens

Writing has the power of permanence.

~ Bryant Mcgill

I used to capture the vastness and the immensity of the world and confine it to the limited pages of the parchment.

~ Hark Herald Sarmiento

The story comes, and it is pure story. That's all I set out to write. But I don't believe that we can write any kind of story without including, whether we intend to or not, our response to the world around us.

~ Madeleine L'engle

Writing is the easiest way to escape from the real world.

~ Anna Jean Ouellette

It’s a new world. Stand up.

~ A.d. Posey

You have to validate yourself first, and then you will receive the much-deserved healing validation from the rest of the world.

~ A.d. Posey

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

You cannot write your character until you know how he or she thinks, until you know what their philosophy is in the world that they occupy.

~ Don Roff

Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world.

~ Susan Sontag

Truthfully, there're only a handful of people in this world who really get joy from seeing you happy. Most won't care if you’re happy, only if you're miserable like they are. They eat that shit up.

~ Crystal Woods

The paper is my savior, the pen my blood, to words that shed my world.

~ Anthony Liccione

To be a poet in today’s technological age means to be underrated and at times, ignored. In a world where the noise of industry reigns supreme, the poet’s voice is being drowned out, but it is a voice that is desperately needed. Our words ring out into the atmosphere and calls the masses back to their senses. We must seize this opportunity and remain true to our purpose in society. Ours is a most noble duty, here to represent the misunderstood and underrepresented, and one day, one person will heed the call of our words and the world will be set ablaze!

~ Dara Reidyr

Writing is the only way to change the world without leaving bed.

~ Lenang Manggala

I stopped writing in a way they would understand because it wasn’t for them or even him. It was for I to understand, for I to make sense, and for I to let go of it.

~ Dominic Riccitello

So what if I fall? I know I will never fallas hard as i fell for you.

~ Timothy Joshua

I loved you with different words than you knew and that seemed to scare you.

~ Dominic Riccitello

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

~ Kamand Kojouri

The tragedy of love is in its ending, the blessing—everything else. No love ever deserves to end.

~ Akif Kichloo

Life is more than one genre'.

~ Juliette Power