1,068 Quotes About Writers-on-writing

Reflecting on the past while living in the present, we make decisions that will reverberate in the future. Our daily actions, thought patterns, and the concepts we choose to cherish will create the paradigmatic structure of our life story; our collective decision-making determines our final manifestation.

A poet risks all in order to create a sought after image. A talented writer and poet exhibit the courage to follow his or her mind to whatever shaded places it craves to travel. Exploring darkness and lightness of the soul allows an artist to render an artistic statement of his or her being.

All a writer needs is raw talent, along with years of self-doubt and rejections.

When I told my parents, John and Celine, that I was writing a book, my dad responded, “I always knew you’d write one!,” which was exactly what I needed to hear.

Writing is an engagement with the text and with the author’s enigmatic thoughts. Our words strung together eventually cause us to change, giving light to the new language and colorful pallet of our soul.

A period of profound depression can trigger a period of hysterical writing. We create our own afflictions; it is only right that we must cure ourselves.

Language is a tool that allows us to express our thoughts. We use mechanisms of language including oral storytelling and indicative writing to depict a storehouse of evocative images. Language links our mind’s tawny memory and blooming imagination to the world. Storytelling connects each of us to the consciousness of other people who inhabit this planet.

Words have oppressed, and liberated countless. It is a weapon that can be used to inspire and save lives, or discourage and forsake them.

Once again my heart feels an acheOnce again my pen saves me...