1,068 Quotes About Writers-on-writing

To live, i must breatheTo exist, i must write!

Writing is an exhausting and demoralizing task that destroys human conceits. Writing an elongated series of personal essay opens a person’s mind to explore paradoxes and discover previously unrealized personal truths. Writing is as arduous as any trek into the wilderness. Every sentence takes a writer deeper into the jungle of the mind, a world of frightening inconsistencies created by our waking life’s desire that the world of chaos conform to our convenience.

Every human being carries with them the stories of their ancestors, the story of their generation, and the rudiments of pliable clay to build future storylines that will shape their community of kindred souls. Storytelling unites us as a species and supplies texture to our lives. By listening to other people’s stories and by sharing our personal story, we deftly weave the threads that compose the sacred hoop of the tribe.

Life can create better ironies than a writer's pen.

All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation — it is the Self escaping into the open.

We must carefully cultivate the voice that speaks to us because an internal voice is the ultimate narrator of our charming and delightful personal story or the documentarian of our tragic and disgraceful plotlines. Stories that we tell ourselves become our functional reality, which format structures the concourse of the nested emotional control panel that guides and girds us through the din of the present.

Ah, o estilo... Você não saberá o que é ter "butterflies in the stomach", novamente, até ter ciência deles.

There will always be disappointments and rejection in this game but that's part of the writing journey, and everyone's journey is different.

There's nothing better than starting with a blank page and creating something that others can enjoy and get invested in.