326 Quotes About Writing-philosophy

I don't imagine book elitists as my audience when writing. I dream about teachers, morticians and garbage men instead.

Personal essay writing is analogous to undertaking a vision quest, a potential turning point in life taken to discover intimate personal truths, form complex abstract thoughts, and ascertain the intended spiritual direction of a person’s life.

To master magical realism, one must make the real seem unreal but, more importantly, make the unreal seem real.

Being a writer all boils down to this: It's you, in a chair, staring at a page. And you're either going to stay in that chair until words are written, or you're going to give up and walk away. The great writers have to fight for their words. They have to choose to write, choose words over distractions, and their characters over their friends. Great writers can be lonely, exhausted souls. But through our characters, we live.

It's a struggle to become the man that you want to be. It's harder than you want, it’s longer than you want and it takes more out of you than...than you expect that it should.

Death teaches the rejoices of living.

Only the dead know the true meaning of patience.

Love and DEATH are two uninvited guests, when they come nobody knows but both do the same work, one takes the HEART and the other one takes its BEATS

Advice is free but context worth a king's ransom.