If a writer falls in love with you, you can never die.
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.
Only by examining our personal biases can we truly grow as artists; only by cultivating empathy can we truly grow as people.
Tears are words that need to be written.
To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.
Don't write to sell, write to tell.
We spend our lives waiting for our book and it never comes.
One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.
let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences
you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.
I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of.
Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.
The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.
My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.
Poems are never finished - just abandoned
One should use common words to say uncommon things
Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written.
Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!
The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text.
Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write.
10 Steps to Becoming a Better Writer
Write.
Write more.
Write even more.
Write even more than that.
Write when you don’t want to.
Write when you do.
Write when you have something to say.
Write when you don’t.
Write every day.
Keep writing.
A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned.
Writers write. Everyone else makes excuses.
There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity.
Paper is more patient than man.
If you wish to be a writer, write.
Goals are dreams with a deadline.
The music lets me see the story but the story doesn't let me write the words.
I am a drinker with writing problems.
All stories are love stories.
Start writing by thinking, not wrestling with words.
Writing is easy: just stare at the screen of your computer until a tear drops on your keyboard.
Stop talking about it and just WRITE!
Write because you love to write.
If you let conditions stop you from working, they'll always stop you.
Inspiration comes and goes, creativity is the result of practice.
Art is the overflow of emotion into action.
we do not write as we want but as we can
Let your story grow. Let it surprise you, and it will certainly surprise your readers.
The highest privilege of being a writer is being able to say, 'open your mind to me and I'll take you to another world.
There's an old rule of theater that goes, 'If there's a gun on the mantel in Act I, it must go off in Act III.' The reverse is also true.
I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
The hard part is putting one word after another.
Look deeper through the telescope
and do not be afraid when the stars
collide towards the darkness,
because sometimes the most beautiful
things begin in chaos.
I write because he needs to know.
Writing is something I do everyday. If I waited for inspiration, I’d never get anything done.
Yesterday is gone, and tomorrow is beyond our reach. The best time to write is now, in the present.
Write like no one is reading.
The Bible, most influential book, which have the ability to transform many lives.
Desire to learn.
Desire to read.
Desire to think.
Desire to write.
So much of reading and writing to me is about being elsewhere, no matter how much I love where I am.
I write things that I would like to read myself.
Don't just read to read. Read to understand.
The show must go on, and so must The Book.
If you don't write, then read.
There are more writers who read than readers who write.
My pen beats faster as I write with my heart
Never give up. Dare to Dream. Dare to believe.
Art does what reality cannot.
The ability to tell your own story, in words or images, is already a victory, already a revolt.
Love is wind for the soul
Contemplation + action = breakthrough
When you fail, get hurt, feel bad, but act on it! Everybody fails, but the ones who act are the ones who change the world!
Here is a lesson to brand in fire across any young historian's mind: If you try to do too much, you will not do anything.
Every time I thought to, I wrote about you.
Go where the pain is, go where the pleasure is.
Life is a book. There are many pages to be written.
As long as music survives, poetry will never die.
Words are music to the ears, alone or together, with or without melody.
With our writings, we can right the world.
In a world where everyone struggles to survive whatever the cost, how could one judge those who decide to die?
Being passionate about something is the most beautiful characteristic you can develop.
Be nice to your children. They may grow up to be writers.
Writers are engineers of human souls.
Truth that is naked is the most beautiful.
My life will be the best illustration of all my work.
Give a hundred writers the same idea and you'll get a hundred different stories.
Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
Every line I ever wrote is the realest shit I ever said.
Column writing is like gas - it fills the available space.
Слышу слова, выбираю их, а то, что силюсь произнести, - дальше слов, в другом измерении. Нужны какие-то неведомые звуки. Какие? Я их не знаю.
But I don't just record a dry history of events and facts, I'm writing a history of human feelings.
some moments are nice, some are
nicer, some are even worth
writing
about.
Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I have ever met. I could live in its growing countries forever.
When you're missing a peice of yourself, aching, gut wrenching emptiness begins to take over. Until you find the link that completes your very soul, the feeling will never go away. Most people find a way to fill this void, material possessions, a string of relationships, affairs, food...I bear my soul, with words, for all to see.
There's two kinds of women-those you write poems about and those you don't.
I've seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.
I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.
Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.
Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.
Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
So what? All writers are lunatics!
Cynics are simply thwarted romantics.