Writing Quotes Quotes

“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 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

“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

“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

“If human hands are permitted to reshape, rewrite, and even transform the tone and style of a work while preserving the author’s name, then the use of AI should be seen in the same light. There is no meaningful difference between AI rewriting a book and a relative or a human editor doing so—what matters is that the ideas and vision remain rooted in the author’s mind.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

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

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

“How do I know what I think, until I see what I've written?”
― Peter Vogel

“I don't write my characters. I just watch them do stupid stuff and write up the incident report.”
― Crystal Scherer

“Jealousy was as suffocating as it sounded. It felt as if there was something tightening around my chest, similar to anger, yet disconnected in wraps of desperation and anguish I couldn't comprehend.”
― Dusk

“Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again. It's like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can't stop the raging storm, but singing can change the hearts and spirits of the people who are together on that ship.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

“The stories you carry shape the life you live. The stories you share shape the lives around you."
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― S. Bobby Alexander, Finding Waldo Within: A Journey Beyond Clarity

“Silence isn’t the answer—the true path is knowing when and how to speak.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo