326 Quotes About Writing-philosophy

The aesthetics of language is the ineluctable medium of thought that wends through the leas of prose and poetry, literature and philosophy. People who think are always analytical. Essays, literature, and poetry are analytical and philosophical. All philosophy is literary prose; all philosophy contains the poetry of thought.

I am the philosophy before any philosopher.

Success does not bring happiness. Success brings success.

Writing is a series of verbal suggestions designed to provoke a psychological reaction and an aesthetic experience.

Our life story is a reflection of our internal poetry in motion, a poem which lyrical lines croons life as a groping accident, a playful roughness, a throbbing ordeal. Life’s posy permutations jell together to create a brawly emotional ambiguity. An interlacement of untidy paradoxes, fastened by a tincture of pyretic hopelessness, sounds the charming pitch of life.

Keep working. Keep trying. Keep believing. You still might not make it, but at least you gave it your best shot. If you don’t have calluses on your soul, this isn’t for you. Take up knitting instead.

Writing is taking human experience and wrapping it up into a package of your own ideas and hoping someone will pull the bow smiling on top to see what's hiding inside.

We should write freely, wholly unfettered by convention, sobriety, rule, and devoid of any expectation of acceptance. Only then, through naked, fearless self-exorcism of our demons can the essence of our souls be poured out fully and honestly onto the pages of our creation.

A daily written thankful gratitude is a heavenly blessing.