Writings Quotes

“What a wonderful world it could be, when spiritual factions would choose to read sacred writings as colorful metaphors and not as bloody declarations of war. (“Is heaven a place in the sky?”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“What we [writers] do might be done in solitude and with great desperation, but it tends to produce exactly the opposite. It tends to produce community and in many people hope and joy.”
― Junot Diaz

“We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single sentence of idle chatter we preserve Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Norse; we carry a museum inside our heads, each day we commemorate peoples of whom we have never heard. More than that, we speak volumes – our language is the language of everything we have read. Shakespeare and the Authorised Version surface in supermarkets, on buses, chatter on radio and television. I find this miraculous. I never cease to wonder at it. That words are more durable than anything, that they blow with the wind, hibernate and reawaken, shelter parasitic on the most unlikely hosts, survive and survive and survive.”
― Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger

“The monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years, or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished?”
― Francis Bacon

“it strikes me that the writers most deeply concerned with the state of literary fiction and its biases against women could do a lot worse than trying to coin some terms of their own: to name the archetypes they wish to invert or criticise and thereby open up the discussion. If authors can be thought of as magicians in any sense, then the root of our power has always rested with words: choosing them, arranging them and – most powerfully – inventing them. Sexism won’t go away overnight, and nor will literary bias. But until then, if we’re determined to invest ourselves in bringing about those changes, it only makes sense to arm ourselves with a language that we, and not our enemies, have chosen.

May 14, 2011 Blog post”
― Foz Meadows

“We must read, mediate and affirm the writings of Holy Scriptures, to partake in the divine nature and overcome the struggles of life.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“I like the rules. No. 1, I have no rule.”
― Prince Simoom Ruhul Amin Rubel

“God’s word; Holy Writings.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“The future is completely open and so is the past. And we are writing them right now. Making a different past or future is only up to us now.”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job

“Something critical happens when the cadre of bilinguals learns to read imported scrolls: they gain entry into a library. I use the word "library" to refer not to a physical building but, more broadly, to the collectivity of accumulated writings. . . . humans possess an ever-increasing store of writings, the totality of which I call the library. The transformation of an oral culture into a written one means, first and foremost, the potential entry of bilinguals into a library.”
― Minae Mizumura, The Fall of Language in the Age of English

“Where is Christ Jesus writings on the walls of the Church?”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Mwandishi lazima awe msomaji wa kila aina ya maandishi anayoweza kusoma. Akipanua upeo wake namna hiyo, kila atakachoandika kitaacha nukuu.”
― Enock Maregesi

“In the times of distress, she read her own writings only to realize that she was decieved by her own words.”
― SR

“Though Shakespeare and his writings did not get much value during his age, ‘time’ has aptly given him his due respect later!”
― Md. Ziaul Haque

“Writings that, you place on the timeline of social media, execute and define only general and public prospects, devotions, connections, and messages, not for individual ones. However, the same writings become personal, when those are inbox to another person; it leaves a direct message.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“If your writings, book, or any subject can make you notable. It is you, not the subject; similarly, any affair, incident, or event related to you can build your notability, and that happens because of you. You are the main characteristic-figure, not the event.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“We need silence to be alone with God, to speak to him, to listen to him, to ponder his words deep in our hearts. We need to be alone with God in silence to be renewed and transformed. Silence gives us a new outlook on life.”
― Kathryn Spink, Mother Teresa: A Complete Authorized Biography

“You have no right to write about it!
When you can't experience it !!”
― Navin Polaki, My Poetry Speaks: When I'm Silent

“Vague thoughts are mindfields for writers.”
― Michael Ray Smith

“... và rồi đây tôi sẽ trở thành một nhà văn, chuyên viết truyện cho con nít.
Tuy có một điều tôi sẽ khác bởi vì khi tôi viết truyện ngắn, tôi luôn luôn viết bằng viết mực có ngòi và mực lại là mầu tím học trò.
Khy tôi viết, tôi nhìn thấy dòng chữ đua nhau nhảy ra trang giấy...
Một cảm hứng kỳ lạ”
― muctim

“One of the defects or deficiency of being a somewhat evolved human being in terms of emotional and practical intelligence is that I see through people. Sometimes I am wrong about them… because I read them based on their output and not their intentions…

I am impatient with slow, unintelligent and lazy people. When they are just being average human beings. I sometimes despise them living this simple and bliss life with no care in the world while I am constantly grappling with figuring out my next move or step in some life mission process I have that keeps sprouting detours, obstacle courses and problems that only delay me and might one day completed undermine my efforts and ambitions.

When it comes to friends, men, family… I have lost some of my ability to have good relations with others…
Simple put, anything or anyone that isn’t moving towards an end goal, mission or completion, annoys me to a fault and my only solution to that is to disengage and abandon it or them.

Anything that isn’t aligned to my end goal is a waste of time.
Last but not least, I loathe my indiscipline in certain areas.
Specifically weight loss, I know what I need to do, I still haven’t done it.
It creates episodes of self loathing where I am forced to reckon/recognize that I have some of the same issues, shortcomings and icks i despise in other human beings.
While they can’t write a long paragraph, book or dissertation they can commit to running five miles.
And then a part of my brain clicks, a voice says, running for them is writing for you…
They aren’t that special…

”
― Crystal Evans, Jamaican Acute Ghetto Itis

“I told him I wrote a few poems about him and he just smiled. Little did he know I meant a few thousand.”
― Dominic Riccitello