Writers Quotes - Page 16

When the vision fill yours mind and passio hits your gut, the need to write it down cannot be stifled.

99% of natural poets discovered their talents through love letters.

A writer needs to ingest love to be passionate. Passion is a metabolite of love, and good writing is an active metabolite of passion.

I write romance and passion to savour love twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

I write about romance and passion to savour love twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

What’s interesting about the relationship between gay men and women is there can be a lot of affection, but there’s a line that you don’t cross.

Writers are never fully present because they’re always imagining a different version of the way things are happening; imagining the past in a different way, imagining the present in a different way, imagining the future in a different way.

Being goal-oriented instead of self-oriented is crucial. I know so many people who want to be writers. But let me tell you, they really don't want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a book in print. They don't want to go through the work of getting the damn book out. There is a huge difference.

We, and I think I'm speaking for many writers, don't know what it is that sometimes comes to make our books alive. All we can do is write dutifully and day after day, every day, giving our work the very best of what we are capable. I don't that we can consciously put the magic in; it doesn't work that way. When the magic comes, it's a gift.

We are doing the most important possible work in the world when we open the door and reveal our creative nature.
It is the work of the Universe itself.

Writers and artists know that ethereal moment, when just one, fleeting something-a chill, an echo, the click of a lamp, a question - -ignites the flame of an entire work that blazes suddenly into consciousness.

Sitting to think of what to write will only set your ass on fire, give you headache, twist your face to look stupid, instead, walk around with a blank mind and something from somewhere will fill it up.

The life of a writer is directed by a mad impulsive muse, that can tell them to cancel all their storyline: a creative divergent devil.

Some writers aren't writers, they are mere escapees' and refugees' on an exile from the jungle of thoughts.

to paraphrase science writer John D. Barrow … we know they are impossible and yet we can imagine them anyway. Our brains, it turns out, are not prisoners of the world we live in; we can fly free! We can, any time we like, create the impossible.

We make a home for ourselves, every time we work on something: actors, writers, singers, building these little nests in our gypsy souls, in place of the ones we so seldom seem to make in our own lives. And then suddenly it's over, and we have to start again.

Flow is something the reader experiences, not the writer.

...if you always move in certainty, your writing will be flat - creativity is a rugged terrain...

We can learn so much looking outside our core field of expertise.

A writer is never just looking out of a window or staring into space. They are building a universe to share with the world