Writing Quotes

Life in society is when everyone is there and no one is present. Life in society is when everyone obeys what no one wants. Writing is a way of escaping this impoverishment, a variation on solitude like love or gambling – a principle of insubordination, a virtue of childhood.

~ Christian Bobin

As for my being a horror writer, I actually think horror is a very conservative genre. The horror comes when you do something wrong--when you challenge religion or society or nature--and then you must pay. I personally consider myself a radical, but I publish conservative material. That's quite a paradox.

~ John Coyne

I’m just not ready to give myself up, Sammy. I mean, there’s something perfect about virginity, and I haven’t found someone who deserves to take that perfection from me…”“You’re loco, Carlos. Insane. Totally crazy… Most guys think they’re imperfect for still being virgins past the age of seventeen.

~ Zack Love

Having had virtually no contact with the outside world for the last few weeks, Evan had temporarily forgotten the social norms governing shopping conduct or approaching celebrities in public.

~ Zack Love

Writing is a series of verbal suggestions designed to provoke a psychological reaction and an aesthetic experience.

~ Stewart Stafford

You -have- to love your monster.

~ Philippa Dowding

Writing is a solitary existence, especially if you forget to chat to your friends – sorry, I meant characters.

~ Carla H. Krueger

But I MUST say what I feel and think in some way — it is such a relief! But the effort is getting to be greater than the relief.

~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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

~ Don Roff

Whoever suffers knows the strength of suffering.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Vulnerability has a strength of its own.

~ William Zinsser

I write to give strength to my spirit.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Writing can be a source of strength-Wang Liang

~ Xinran

And this is what being an artist means, being a poet? To sacrifice yourself for your art, sacrifice your heart for your art, because it’s only through something broken that something beautiful can grow.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

We are living out the drama of a pathetic story whose pages are smeared with our own handwriting.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The only way to survive after death is by breathing life into the universe before death.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Learning is essential for living the life you love.

~ A.d. Posey

Do you think maybe your writing isn't going anymore because you're unhappy? Because you're not living the life you could? A life worth writing about? You must know that cliche-write what you know-but what do you know, Bree, when you shut the world out?

~ Holly Bourne

Exist with me. We'd do so beautifully.

~ Alaska Gold

Astray from a deep sleep chronic as I write by phonics, like insomnia I will always live the onyx night for revealing, and, upon it, still I'll steal the bright light of day right away just to keep building at speeds hypersonic.

~ Criss Jami

And so I've written everything down, too afraid of my demons and what they may say, the doubt that eats at me from the inside. Too afraid that I'll forget and it'll all be a madwoman's dream.

~ Nadège Richards

I don’t existmetal pressed to pagesspilling blood, inkin vein each thought ragesSunlight shootingthrough a forest of pinesblack top windingand yellow dotted linesI am not hereonly a deep aching,a lightning flashand a tree trunk breakingSheets once alive covered in a deep redmark the presentbut I am not yet deadNothing is hereonly the rain and mistfresh air and soilI do not need to exist.

~ Abby Musgrove

I love the gray area between right and wrong.

~ Dan Brown

I've been obsessed with stories since I was a kid so it's no surprise that I ended up writing for a living.

~ Sara Sheridan

Life is a book that someone else is reading—and you, a key character—hence the need for continual conflict and resolution. We can't have any boring books.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Love is the bee that carries the pollen from one heart to another.

~ Slash Coleman

Why does everyone think a guy who prefers love to people is missing something in his life?

~ Slash Coleman

I am part of everyone I ever dated on OK Cupid.

~ Slash Coleman

I’ve realized the most effective writing and living are done when we are willing to be vulnerable. I think we spend most of our lives trying to cover up our insecurities.

~ Katie Kiesler

As writers we live life twice, like a cow that eats its food once and then regurgitates it to chew and digest it again. We have a second chance at biting into our experience and examining it. ...This is our life and it's not going to last forever. There isn't time to talk about someday writing that short story or poem or novel. Slow down now, touch what is around you, and out of care and compassion for each moment and detail, put pen to paper and begin to write.

~ Natalie Goldberg

See the world anew and write down the bones of it.

~ A.d. Sams

Don't put down too many roots in terms of a domicile. I have lived in four countries and I think my life as a writer and our family's life have been enriched by this. I think a writer has to experience new environments. There is that adage: No man can really succeed if he doesn't move away from where he was born. I believe it is particularly true for the writer.

~ Arthur Hailey

All forms of writing are an act of conception; writing must lead to creation. Each time that we write, we begin again. Writing is an act of self-affirmation. Each time that we place our thoughts onto paper, we receive a new opportunity to claim our reality. Writing is also an act of explication and deconstruction. Writing empowers us to shape and modify our fiery constitutions. Writing allows us to explore the essential ingredients that lead to a life of serenity by exhibiting compassion, love, patience, generosity, and forgiveness.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

We become the product of our recurrent thoughts. Writing is one method of explicating upon our thoughts, condensing multiple scenes, times, and ideas, and editing our fragmented beliefs.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

The principal advantage of narrative writing is that it assists us place our life experiences in a storytelling template. The act of strict examination forces us to select and organize our past. Narration provides an explanatory framework. Human beings often claim to understand events when they manage to formulate a coherent story or narrative explaining what factors caused a specific incident to occur. Stories assist the human mind to remember and make decisions based on informative stories. Narrative writing also prompts periods of intense reflection that leads to more writing that is ruminative. Contemplative actions call for us to track the conscious mind at work rendering an accounting of our weaknesses and our strengths, folly and wisdom.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Graduate study is an intensive education. You have to be diligent and determined from the beginning to the very end.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We can help the next generation, with the stories we write today.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You dive deeper, you strip away the cleverness and the words become more important than your ego and that's when you know it's real, when it's good.

~ Kamal Ravikant

The ultimate goal of writing is forgiveness.

~ Katerina Stoykova Klemer

Mark to yourself the gradual way in which you have been prepared for, and are now led by an irresistible necessity to enter upon your great labour.

~ William Makepeace Thackeray