Writing Prompts Quotes

“The rights and liberties represented by democracy, many agreed, were losing ground across the globe to restrictions imposed by authoritarian autocracy… It appeared ignorance had indeed managed to secure an alliance with power (to paraphrase James Baldwin’s famous quote) to become the most ferocious enemy of justice on the contemporary historical landscape.”
― Aberjhani, Songbirds and Roses: The Unusual Life Story of an Unusual Poem

“I sit on the precipice of my creative sensibilities staring over and out into a wide expanse of sparkling madness and sometimes envy those who simply fall into it and let everything else go. I suppose that’s what writing poetry is for.”
― Aberjhani, Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays

“Tell the story that's been growing in your heart, the characters you can't keep out of your head, the tale that speaks to you, that pops into your head during your daily commute, that wakes you up in the morning.”
― Jennifer Weiner

“ثق بامرأة تقرأ... في النهاية، كل الرجال روايات مملة…”
― Mahdi Mansour

“Sometimes you search for a story. Sometimes you sniff for a story. Sometimes you listen for a story. And sometimes the story walks up to you and tells you itself.”
― Avijeet Das

“فوّت القطار إذا شئت، فإنّ فرص الرحيل هنا تتكرر مثل الحب والمطر...”
― Mahdi Mansour

“تموتُ القبلة الاولى إذا استأذنتها...
نص قديم، ولكنه ما زال صالحاً لأن كل لقاء جديد هو لقاء أوّل بالضرورة!”
― Mahdi Mansour

“لست وحيداً ما دمت محاطاً بكل هؤلاء الأصدقاء المختبئين في الكتب...
في البيت، وحده المطر يطرق على الأبواب...”
― Mahdi Mansour

“العمر أقصر من قرنفلةٍ،
أحبك،
والمسافة بيننا ولدٌ يتيمٌ،
قد تصير له قبائل لو هممت بوحدتي...”
― Mahdi Mansour

“فلنفترق كيدٍ تقول لوردةٍ
لن يستريح العطر حتى يرجعا…”
― Mahdi Mansour