Browsing Topic Best Writing Quotes

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

Life’s like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.

To write well and speak well is mere vanity if one does not live well.

You do not write your life with words…You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.

I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.

For years I’ve advocated keeping a gratitude journal, writing down five things every day that brought pleasure and gratefulness.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

Christ is the most unique person of history. No man can write a history of the human race without giving first and foremost place to the penniless Teacher of Nazareth.

You know, it really doesn`t matter what the media write as long as you`ve got a young and beautiful piece of ass.

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.

A writer should never be brief at the expense of being clear.

All the sciences came to exist in Arabic. The systematic works on them were written in Arabic writing.

Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.

Girls are trained to say, ‘I wrote this, but it’s probably really stupid.’ Well, no, you wouldn’t write a novel if you thought it was really stupid. Men are much more comfortable going, ‘I wrote this book because I have a unique perspective that the world needs to hear.’ Girls are taught from the age of seven that if you get a compliment, you don’t go, ‘Thank you’, you go, ‘No, you’re insane.

It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.

It’s okay to disagree with the thoughts or opinions expressed by other people. That doesn’t give you the right to deny any sense they might make. Nor does it give you a right to accuse someone of poorly expressing their beliefs just because you don’t like what they are saying. Learn to recognize good writing when you read it, even if it means overcoming your pride and opening your mind beyond what is comfortable.

So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.

I write to discover what I think.

If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?

We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy. I spent a great deal of time in my younger years just writing and reading, walking around the woods in Ohio, where I grew up.

I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

Whether you’re keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it’s the same thing. What’s important is you’re having a relationship with your mind.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.

Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality.

We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it.

I didn’t want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write.

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

Get scared. It will do you good. Smoke a bit, stare blankly at some ceilings, beat your head against some walls, refuse to see some people, paint and write. Get scared some more. Allow your little mind to do nothing but function. Stay inside, go out – I don’t care what you’ll do; but stay scared as hell. You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.

Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they’re so frightfully clever. I’m awfully glad I’m a Beta, because I don’t work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don’t want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They’re too stupid to be able to read or write. Besides they wear black, which is such a beastly color. I’m so glad I’m a Beta.

Writing is nature’s way of letting you know how sloppy your thinking is.

The tears had turned to ink.