Writing Quotes Quotes

“When poetry becomes synonymous with examination stress, it is unsurprising that readers abandon it once formal education ends.”
― Alok Mishra

“Poetry is frequently introduced as an object of dissection rather than an experience of encounter. Students are trained to hunt for metaphors, symbols, and devices before they are allowed to feel the poem. This premature intellectualisation breeds anxiety rather than appreciation.”
― Alok Mishra

“I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this.

[Cormac McCarthy's Venomous Fiction, New York Times, April 19, 1992]”
― Cormac McCarthy

“Life is a sea of vibrant color. Jump in.”
― A.D. Posey

“Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge.
Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat.
Poetry isn’t swimming. Poetry is water.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Writing does not exist unless there is someone to read it, and each reader will take something different from a novel, from a chapter, from a line.”
― Claire Fuller, Swimming Lessons

“I sincerely believe that only those who are financially free can produce great works of art. Poor artists are too bothered about money and fame, which hampers their creativity. An artist shouldn’t have any financial pressure. One can’t create something poetic if commercial success is all one is concerned about.”
― Abhaidev, The Influencer: Speed Must Have a Limit

“I prefer to be on the side of losers, the misunderstood or lonely people rather than writing about the strong and powerful.”
― Núria Añó

“This is why the words you speak — to yourself and others — carry such tremendous power. They shape your beliefs, influence your emotions, and guide your actions.”
― Margarita Sekulova, Affirmations: A Guide to Manifest Better Life

“Books, including those written by famous authors, may sit unread on forgotten shelves, attracting dust rather than readers’ attention.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“One of the disadvantages of literary awards is the fact that authors are writing to please a book award committee, rather than to spread the message of love, tolerance, peace, and serve humanity.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“We are the thoughts we choose to keep.”
― A.D. Posey

“I only wrote prose before I met you.
My musings were superfluous and serious as well.
But now the words dance with me.
I sing with them
and we create poetry.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“They say everything that can be written has been written. I say we are just getting started.”
― Andrew Barger, Mailboxes - Mansions - Memphistopheles: A Collection of Dark Tales

“A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from.”
― Arthur Miller

“‏Don’t live with a lover or roommate who doesn’t respect your work.”
― Grace Paley

“Always choose love over fear.”
― A.D. Posey

“I swear that girl was born with a pen in her hand, the moon in her hair and stars in her soul.”
― Melody Lee, Moon Gypsy

“Good fiction writers have an instinctive understanding of human nature. That's what makes stories and characters captivating. Good spiritual writers share what they sincerely practice themselves.”
― Donna Goddard

“Talent is as common as table salt. The difference between a talented person and a successful one is a lot of hard work.”
― Stephen King

“Is not our purest form of writing that done without the taint of money?”
― Andrew Barger, Coffee With Poe

“The Throes of Poetry - Hymns formed from groans of acquaintance, its rhythm weaving between tranquility, compassions, and peril - like bare feet stomping on broken glass - bleeds, recoils, then steps again.”
― Traci Lea LaRussa

“Sometimes you just have to hold each other’s hands and walk through it all.”
― A.D. Posey

“Sometimes your diary is the perfect listener.”
― Amy Leigh Mercree, Joyful Living: 101 Ways to Transform Your Spirit and Revitalize Your Life

“When I was writing, it was necessary for me to read after I had written. If you kept thinking about it, you would lose the thing you were writing before you could go on with it the next day. It was necessary to get exercise, to be tired in the body, and it was very good to make love with whom you loved. That was better than anything. But afterwards, when you were empty, it was necessary to read in order not to think or worry about your work until you could do it again. I had learned already never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“I speak hard, but write softly.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“I'm a versatile writer. No genre has managed to pin me down thus far.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“I have so much to share with the world, please be patient and you will get everything you are currently waiting for.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“An author cannot be a tool that can be programmed and kept under control. An author must be free — with a human mind and a soul.”
― Mouloud Benzadi, THE RIGHT OF AUTHORS TO USE AI FREELY: Why AI Is a Tool, Not an Author

“Where there are pirates, there are cats.”
― Sully Tarnish, The Dragon and the Apprentice: A Humorous Fantasy Adventure