1,068 Quotes About Writers-on-writing

Writing is the knitting of the soul

In telling our story, we develop an internal voice, which vocalization can help us rise or keep us down. An internal voice that constantly speaks to a person in an uplifting and reassuring manner is a rare plum.

Whenever we share a personal story with other people, we provide an enchanting testament that illustrates the distinctive tinting of our estranged and prose-like being.

Literature, in sum, tries to give us the experiences of life without its sequelae or its exorbitant consequences as observed or personally paid for by the author.Thus, when it is a successful, Literature is a laboratory of the real world.

Am I challenging myself? If I'm not challenged or if I'm not surprised or if I'm not in a new place by the end of the writing than I was at the start, then I haven't done my own job to myself. You gotta end somewhere new.

The more that a person immerses themselves into a body of work that calls upon them to draw their life sustaining sustenance from an internal well of compassion the closer a person comes to developing, maintaining, and displaying the wholesome glow radiating from a peaceful mind.

A writer's job isn't to change the directions of others' trains, but rather to re-imagine the tracks and paint empathy on the rails

I became a writer all the same, and shall remain one until the end of chapter, just as a cow goes on giving milk all her life, even though what appears to be her self-interest urges her to give gin. I have not written and published to please other people but to satisfy myself, just as cow gives milk, not to profit the dairyman but to satisfy herself.

When I’m writing about myself, I write out of a strong urge not to protect myself. When I feel ego or self justification or defensiveness creeping in or a wish to make myself look better than I was, I squelch it, if I can. It takes vigilance. Exposing myself is the only way to go, though. If I’d rather wear veils, I should write fiction.