Writers Quotes - Page 12

What is it about us lady authors and our fascination for the exclamation mark?

This is the strange life of books that you enter along as a writer, mapping an unknown territory that arises as you travel. If you succeed in the voyage, others enter after, one at a time, also alone, but in communion with your imagination, traversing your route. Books are solitudes where we meet.

Just write. That's my only tip. And read. I guess that's two.

Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book.

To put an arrogant 'famous' writer in his place: pretend to be illiterate.

To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.

Writing help us to express our thoughts, to share experiences, to think, to love, to inspire, to motivate, to challenge, to liberate, to learn, to hope, to smile and to wonder.

A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before.

Perhaps as writers, we too should embrace the concept of wabi-sabi:

A hundred years ago, an average teenager knew countless authors, and, a sex position or two. Today, an average teenager knows countless sex positions, and, an author or two.

...how many writers still dare compare a woman to Nature, like Campion? - there is a garden in her face - how lovely...

Big writers become a kind of shared climate.

Writers don't just create pages in a novel, but depth to worlds that become a safe haven for those who wish to escape the reality of their own.

Writers and artists build by hand little worlds that they hope might effect change in real minds, in the real world where stories are read. A story can make us cry and laugh, break our hearts, or make us angry enough to change the world.

If you had told me, though, when I was twenty-four that I would write about Skokie, Illinois, where I grew up, I would have said, ‘You’re out of your mind. Why would I have Skokie in a poem?’ But you become resigned. Your job is to write about the life you actually have.

Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real.

Writing has become more than just a profession, and hobby…it has become a way to express my feelings and pour my entire soul into the pages of my books. Thank God for the little things in life that makes us feel infinite and tranquil…the little things that make way for us to escape reality and enter new worlds that we create. -Nina Jean Slack

World War I was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.

I will always know the glory of the beautiful and rare, as they will know security from labour and prayer. As they will hear the laughter of the children they gave life, I will know the torments of the song born under knife.

Sometimes you have to go a little crazy before you can find sanity. I think I'm close.