Writing Quotes

The Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel dined with me, and I asked them how they dared so roundly to assert, that God spoke to them; and whether they did not think at the time, that they would be misunderstood, & so be the cause of imposition.Isaiah answer'd, I saw no God, nor heard any, in a finite organical perception; but my senses discover'd the infinite in every thing, and as I was then persuaded, & remain confirm'd; that the voice of honest indignation is the voice of God, I cared not for consequences but wrote.

~ William Blake

Your current circumstances are part of your redemption story He is writing.

~ Evinda Lepins

The more I know about God, I am convinced He likes to read books and authors are His librarians. Every soul is a story waiting to be read.

~ Shannon L. Alder

I have so often been asked the question: But how did you come to think of The Scarlet Pimpernel? And my answer has always been: It was God's will that I should. And to you moderns, who perhaps do not believe as I do, I will say, In the chain of my life, there were so many links, all of which tended towards bringing me to the fulfillment of my destiny.

~ Emmuska Orczy

Genetic code is a divine writing.

~ Toba Beta

I am a man, and men are animals who tell stories. This is a gift from God, who spoke our species into being, but left the end of our story untold. That mystery is troubling to us. How could it be otherwise? Without the final part, we think, how are we to make sense of all that went before: which is to say, our lives?So we make stories of our own, in fevered and envious imitation of our Maker, hoping that we'll tell, by chance, what God left untold. And finishing our tale, come to understand why we were born.

~ Clive Barker

Discourse is not life; its time is not your time; in it, you will not be reconciled to death; you may have killed God beneath the weight of all that you have said; but don't imagine that, with all that you are saying you will make a man that will live longer than he.

~ Michel Foucault

Even at that time the hope of leaving behind messages in bottles on the flood of barbarism bursting on Europe was an amiable illusion: the desperate letters stuck in the mud of the spirit of rejuvenesence and were worked up by a band of Noble Human-Beings and other riff-raff into highly artistic but inexpensive wall-adornments. Only since then has progress in communications really got into its stride. Who, in the end, is to take it amiss if even the freest of free spirits no longer write for an imaginary posterity, more trusting, if possible, than even their contemporaries, but only for the dead God?

~ Theodor W. Adorno

You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding.

~ Milan Kundera

I don't trust men everybody likes. Being nice isn't the same as being good.

~ Sarah Rees Brennan

Old words are reborn with new faces.

~ Criss Jami

In art, and maybe just in general, the idea is to be able to be really comfortable with contradictory ideas. In other words, wisdom might be, seem to be, two contradictory ideas both expressed at their highest level and just let to sit in the same cage sort of, vibrating. So, I think as a writer, I'm really never sure of what I really believe.

~ George Saunders

Burn worldly love, rub the ashes and make ink of it, make the heart the pen, the intellect the writer, write that which has no end or limit.

~ Guru Nanak

The best kind of happiness is a habit you're passionate about.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The job of a writer is not to convey emotion but to invoke it.

~ Eric T. Benoit

Don’t try to visualize the great mass audience. There is no such audience—every reader is a different person.

~ William Zinsser

Happiness keeps you Sweet , Trials keep you Strong, Sorrows keep you Human, Failures keep you Humble, Success keeps you Glowing, But Only faith Keeps You Going! Be Happy Live Simply.

~ Abhysheq Shukla

Fail soon so that you can succeed sooner.

~ Amit Kalantri

Today it is cheaper to start a business than tomorrow.

~ Amit Kalantri

I wrote about the things I discovered along the way and about how whether we believe it or not, everything we need to succeed in life is already present inside us. We just have to find the few.

~ Andrew Kendall

To a farmer dirt is not a waste, it is wealth.

~ Amit Kalantri

If the farmer is rich, then so is the nation.

~ Amit Kalantri

A farmer is a magician who produces money from the mud.

~ Amit Kalantri

Networking isn't how many people you know, it's how many people know you.

~ Amit Kalantri

An entrepreneur with strong network makes money even when he is asleep.

~ Amit Kalantri

You can control the visibility of my name and my popularity, but you cannot control the frequency at which people are quoting me. Truth always rises with time.

~ Suzy Kassem

Writing is a bittersweet addiction. The more it drains you; the more replenished you feel, and you crave it even more.

~ Anthea Syrokou

He who writes to his beloved every day is not a lover, but a writer.

~ Dr. Kyaciss Pfiell

Imagination is what you do with your inspiration.

~ Violet Haberdasher

Cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.

~ William S. Burroughs

A good idea always attracts other good ideas.

~ Patrick Ness

No writing is wasted. Did you know that sourdough from San Francisco is leavened partly by a bacteria called lactobacillus sanfrancisensis? It is native to the soil there, and does not do well elsewhere. But any kitchen can become an ecosystem. If you bake a lot, your kitchen will become a happy home to wild yeasts, and all your bread will taste better. Even a failed loaf is not wasted. Likewise, cheese makers wash the dairy floor with whey. Tomato gardeners compost with rotten tomatoes. No writing is wasted: the words you can't put in your book can wash the floor, live in the soil, lurk around in the air. They will make the next words better.

~ Erin Bow

Living is about capturing the essence of things. I go through my life every day with a vial, a vial wherein can be found precious essential oils of every kind! The priceless, fragrant oils that are the essence of my experiences, my thoughts. I walk inside a different realm from everybody else, in that I am existing in the essence of things; every time there is reason to smile, I hold out my glass vial and capture that drop of oil, that essence, and then I smile. And that is why I have smiled, and so you and I may be smiling at the same time but I am smiling because of that one drop of cherished, treasured oil that I have extracted. When I write, I find no need to memorize an idea, a plot, a sequence of things: no. I must only capture the essence of a feeling or a thought and once I have inhaled that aroma, I know that I have what I need.

~ C. Joybell C.

Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.

~ John Updike

The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning.

~ Anne Tyler

It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.

~ Ray Bradbury

I hope I don't write TOO many books! When I look at authors who have written too many books, I wonder to myself When did they live? I certainly want to write BECAUSE I live! I know I don't want to write in order to live! My writing is an overflow of the wine glass of my life, not a basin in which I wash out my ideals and expectations.

~ C. Joybell C.

Write because you love to write.

~ Cindi Lee

Let All Your Life’s Experiences Lead To More Writing & Encourage More Reading..!

~ Sujit Lalwani