Writing Quotes

Writing is life – it’s where my heart leads me each day, and how I understand the world we live in.

~ Phen Weston

words are a border collie’s worst nightmare.

~ Thomas Lloyd Qualls

Writing's much more romantic when its pen and ink and paper. It's... More timeless. and worthwhile. Think about it. There are so many words gushing out into the universe these days. All digitally. All in Comic Sans or Times New Roman. Silly Websites. Stupid news stories digitally uploaded to a 24-hour channel. Where's all this writing going? Who's keeping a note of it all? Who's in charge of deciding what's worthwhile and what isn't? But back then... Back then, if someone wanted to write something they had to buy paper. Buy it! And ink. And a pen. And they couldn't waste too many sheets cos it was expensive. So when people wrote, they wrote because it was worthwhile... not just because they had some half-baked idea and they wanted to pointlessly prove their existence by sharing it on some bloody social networking site.

~ Holly Bourne

Mind your words, dear writer for you are holding a delicate reader in them.

~ Maria Stoica

It was more than a string of letters put togetherit was a thick cloak in the coldand a strong defense against an enemyIt was more than the naked heart on paperit was a way to undress sadness … and sinsand an olive branch for the desperateWriting was her prayer and the words were felt.

~ M.j. Abraham

how these words, wait to diein the arms of all the poetry..yet to be written.

~ Sanober Khan

And on the days I couldn't breathe, I learned to paint air.

~ Jenim Dibie

Everything that drowned me taught me how to swim.

~ Jenim Dibie

Poetry keeps mein a highly drunken stateof divinity.

~ Sanober Khan

sometimes i wake upin the middleof the nightand findpoetry splatteredall over my bed.

~ Sanober Khan

Poems are invisible flowers on my skin.

~ Sanober Khan

Why write? Life is a cage of empty words.

~ Miriam Elia

some words bring warmthjust bybeing next to each other.

~ Sanober Khan

Writing is a lifelong disease. Once contracted, the only prescription is to write constantly in whatever form to express your condition, in whatever construction to carry your words beyond you.

~ J.r. Tompkins

Since I stopped writing, I read more than ever. Other people's words, not my own--my words are gone.

~ Jennifer Niven

They were the kind of words you read back and every lettered limb surprises you because you never knew you really felt those things the whole time.

~ Hannah Brencher

And you never fall behind?”“Of course I do. But I always feel guilty when that happens. After all, my journal is the oldest and most loyal friend I have. And it never interrupts me when I’m speaking,” he added, with a boyish grin.

~ Zack Love

My words will be my legacy, etched in heartfelt honesty upon the pages of time.

~ Callum Mclaughlin

When your words enter the material world in the form of ink or on screen, you are immediately afforded the opportunity to judge their worth.

~ Chris Matakas

Sometimes when I'm writing, I wonder if the words have a mind of their own, and if they're really just using me as a puppet to manifest themselves.

~ Travis J. Dahnke

We all have a place within us, that would like to rewrite the way our life was written out for us....That's why people want to become authors.

~ Tracie Molton

Writers are like tricksters. Their words lure us to embark on journeys and unlock our emotions.

~ Ogwo David Emenike

Writing is an abstract art of drawing pictures of the conscious and subconscious mind with words.

~ Debasish Mridha

Writing is the dancing of words, sometimes it is beautiful and meaningful, sometimes it is not.

~ Debasish Mridha

I write to taste life twice; to savour the flavour of sweet times gone by, or spit out the bitterness before it multiplies.

~ Aisha Mirza

It pleases him how Spell is how the word is made but also, in the hands of the magician, how the world is changed. One letter separates Word from World, and that letter is like the number one, or an 'I', or a shaft of light between almost closed curtains. There is an old letter called a thorn, which jags and tears at the throat as it's uttered. Later he learns that Grammar and Glamour share the same deeper root, which is further magic, and there can be neither magic without that root, nor plant. He's lost in it like Chid in Child, or God reversed into Dog. Somewhere inside him is a colon. A sentence can last for life.

~ Charles Lambert

The planet you inhabit is a single plane of infinite dimensions, stretched like a guitar string, and standing before you like a concubine waiting for your command.

~ Thomas Lloyd Qualls

Writing poetry is about learning to pare down the poem to the most essential words. Every word used has to be crucial to the poem.

~ Harley King

I write more with the words I leave out.

~ Bryant Mcgill

I bleed words.I dream in narrative. I live in infinite worlds.I befriend figmental characters.I wish on stars in other galaxies.I harvest stories from a brooding muse.I bloom under moonlight in hushed seclusion.I am a writer.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

The sky never falls with the rain. It is never weighed down by all that it carries. It takes all of its anchorsand turns them into stars. Learn from this.

~ D. Antoinette Foy

Your flesh is not a reflection of your soul. So when you look in the mirror, remember that your light outshines your flaws.

~ D. Antoinette Foy

I am in awe of flowers. Not because of their colors, but because even though they have dirt in their roots, they still grow. They still bloom.

~ D. Antoinette Foy

What is the finding of love, but a voice answering a voice?

~ D. Antoinette Foy

Our words are often only vague, inadequate descriptions of our thoughts. Something gets lost in translation every time we try to express our thoughts in words. And when the other person hears our words, something gets lost in translation again, because words mean different things to different people. A long time may mean 10 hours to one person, but 10 days to another. So when a thought is formed in my brain, and my mouth expresses it in words, and your ears hear it, and your brain processes it, your brain and my brain never truly see exactly the same thing. Communication is always just an approximation.

~ Oliver Gaspirtz

Life is so beautiful and so short that anything that makes me feel less than too much is nothing at all.

~ D. Antoinette Foy

My heart's scripture tastes foreign in the mouths of cowards and on the tongues of those who have never breathed inthe moon and breathed out the world.

~ D. Antoinette Foy

Take each day in your open palms and close your fists around it. This life is not done with you yet.

~ D. Antoinette Foy

Should you care to write (and only the saints know why you should) you must needs have knowledge and art and magic - the knowledge of the music of words, the art of being artless, and the magic of loving your readers.

~ Kahil Gibran

Home. The word circled comfortably in my mouth like bubble gum, swished around sweetly soft and satisfying. Home. Try saying it aloud to yourself. Home. Isn’t it like taking a bite of something lovely? If only we could eat words.

~ Sol Luckman