119 Quotes About Writers-on-thinking

All writers trammeling the ground of self-examining must explore their physical and mental constrictions and determine what awaits them, if anything at all, after the cinereous body returns to dust. Writing does not demand that one prefer death to life, but any writer seeking enlightenment might elect to assess the possibility of death releasing them from the conscripts of crippling dissatisfaction with their present way of living.

Every book is a journey. It’s a conjunction of influences, ideas and knowledge.

She never claimed to be a writer, she simply described herself as a typist of stories waiting to come alive.

Writing is part of life, but it is not part of the ordinary busyness of life.

Commencing and concluding any writing project entails making certain compromises. A person must put off attending to other projects in order to devote him or herself to taking on an extensive writing project. The allocation of a writer’s limited resources of time requires choosing how much time to devote to any manuscript. One must stop working on a manuscript before it meets all the writer’s hopeful expectations.

A person must discern a sustainable philosophy for living, and his or her purposeful intent must be in harmony with their inner spirit as well as the spirit of the universe.

Writing is one method to discover ideas that a person previously never consciously considered.

Thoughts, words, and deeds – three types of intentional expressions – reflect the actions of people endowed with the components that define our essential humanity, namely consciousness, memory, and emotional indexes

The study of philosophy represents an extended mediation on death. The study of literature teaches us that life is absurd, because humankind possesses the foreknowledge that we each owe a death. It is the poets, persons vested with divine inspiration, whom teach us how to live, by boldly experiencing and dutifully recording all the vibrant sensations of life.