Write Quotes

Tonight, I decided to take a stroll down to my local liquor store. Maybe I’ll find a refreshment to wash down this full moon. I hate showing up & the clerk fucking knows my name, perhaps because I’m a regular. Anyways got my shit, left…barely covering the tax. Took the long way home; to get away from that haunting typewriter. Sat down at some park bench, as I started to open my poison; A memory rushed into me. A empty bottle of Jack Daniel’s under the Christmas tree. I thought my dad would want another drink, so started to pour my bottle into the dirt & cried.

It’s not so much about writing the story of Christmas itself, as ingenious as it is. In reality, it’s much more about writing the story of Christmas into the story of life so that it will become the story of life.

When your heart starts to feel full again. I love FREE refills, and if a restaurant tries to double charge me, I refuse to write a love poem on their Yelp page.-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz

Find your quiet center of life and write from that to the world.

Writers write while dreamers procastinate.

Lost in a book is a great place to be found.

Yes, its hard to write. But its harder not to.

At the heart of the impulse to tell stories is a mystery so profound.

Writing is a bitch. It's an itch that I love to scratch.

You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.

When a day goes by and I haven't written anything, I better have been doing something worth writing about.

Write what speaks to your soul.

Solitude is very different from a ’time-out’ from our busy lives. Solitude is the very ground from which community grows. Whenever we pray alone, study, read, write, or simply spend quiet time away from the places where we interact with each other directly, we are potentially opened for a deeper intimacy with each other.

Criticism can never instruct or benefit you. Its chief effect is that of a telegram with dubious news. Praise leaves no glow behind, for it is a writer's habit to remember nothing good of himself. I have usually forgotten those who have admired my work, and seldom anyone who disliked it. Obviously, this is because praise is never enough and censure always too much.

Learn to enjoy this tidying process. I don't like to write; I like to have written. But I love to rewrite. I especially like to cut: to press the DELETE key and see an unnecessary word or phrase or sentence vanish into the electricity. I like to replace a humdrum word with one that has more precision or color. I like to strengthen the transition between one sentence and another. I like to rephrase a drab sentence to give it a more pleasing rhythm or a more graceful musical line. With every small refinement I feel that I'm coming nearer to where I would like to arrive, and when I finally get there I know it was the rewriting, not the writing, that wont the game.

I only wrote prose before I met you. My musings were superfluous and serious as well. But now the words dance with me. I sing with them and we create poetry.

I write to express my love for the humanity.

If you think there is no time to write now, there would never be.

I wonderif you ever read my poemsand wish they were writtenfor you.

Write something worth reading and your voice will be heard.

Begin to write, your heart flow with sacred words.

Transform into your dream.

Even the most beautifully written, perfectly edited and well-designed books will fail if people aren't made aware of them!" ––Linda Radke, President of Five Star Publications, on the importance of public relations and marketing.

Because there are a million thoughts that never sleepand a million more that wake up as each second passes by...And it's insanity insidebut I can no longer keep quietOh, I can't speak as wellI need to writeI have to write...

Always follow your dreams. Never give up. If you have a thought in your mind write it down. If you have a desire in your heart to write, then write. Tell your story. Make a difference. Touch someone’s heart.

Have while you write!

We write our deepest thoughts.

Reading opens up other pockets of the mind.

You can learn to write by writing.

Live inside your stories, yes, but do not hide behind them.

The longer the wondering, the longer the writing.

For a poet, it will be terrible if there are no women. He will not have anything to write about.

Fly with a kind heart, a light spirit, and a resilient soul.

You write poems with your fingertipsAnd I keep listening to the songs written on my skinBy some distant dream, similar wordsBut the verses never meet...

You ought to write down the glow of thoughts as it’s ignites.

If you can write, paint, or compose without fear, pain, tears or questions, then you are either very blessed or very bland.

The Genie declared that in his time and place there were scientists of the passions who maintained that language itself, on the one hand, originated in 'infantile pregenital erotic exuberance, polymorphously perverse,' and that conscious attention, on the other, was a 'libidinal hypercathexis' -- by which magic phrases they seemed to mean that writing and reading, or telling and listening, were literally ways of making love.

Each write the story of your life, so try writing the best you can.

Fate lies in our hands, its just that we need to be brave enough to read it & desire enough to change it

I saw a street car conductor today with one brown eye and one blue. Wouldn't he make a nice villain for a detective story?

As Harvard Business School professor Peter Bregman advises, 'Don't write a book, write a page...Don't expect to be a great manager in your first six months, just try to set expectations well.

A writer’s uniqueness glows and transforms the heart and the soul of a reader.

I enjoy self-publishing & sending publishers rejection letters. They're like, 'Who is this guy?' And I'm like, 'the end of your industry.

I write awe-thoughts flowing in my mind.

You are the Poem I dreamed of writing, the Masterpiece I longed to paint. You are the shining Star I reached for in my ever hopeful quest for life fulfilled. Yes, I am Blessed.

Sacred solitude; reading, wondering and writing.

Women must write through their bodies, they must invent the impregnable language that will wreck partitions, classes, and rhetorics, regulations and codes, they must submerge, cut through, get beyond the ultimate reverse-discourse, including the one that laughs at the very idea of pronouncing the word "silence"...In one another we will never be lacking.

If you have nothing to write your power of imagination is lost.

You can never know enough about your characters

How you feel after reading something indicates not what you’ve read but where you are at.

There is no greater feeling of accomplishment than to create a world that solely exists in your imagination and be able to pull someone into this hidden place inside of my thoughts. To make someone care for a person that has manifested from my dreams, to make them hate me for putting them in danger, and for them to ask to be taken on another journey with me when it is all said and done is why I write.

All I need to dois place my pen against paperand your lovewrites for me.

Write something simple like water, it will have the power to change you and the world.

If you are a singer, you must sing. If you are a dancer, you must dance. If you are a writer, you must write. Don’t suffocate your heart.

Find children in your neighborhood,Teach them how to read and writeTake them out of the darkness,Into the light

You will create yourself with continuous self-education.

Writing poems is simply an excuse to remember You.

Lead with your heart. The rest will follow.

We write to share our thoughts and our lives.

The more you read, the more you write, and the more you free yourself to do so, the better writer you will become.