Write Quotes

“We are the thoughts we choose to keep.”
― A.D. Posey

“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.”
― Helene Cixous

“You do not learn how to write novels in a writing program. You learn how by leading an interesting life. Open yourself up to all experience. Let life pour through you the way light pours through leaves.”
― Pat Conroy, My Losing Season: A Memoir

“If you ask a twenty-one-year-old poet whose poetry he likes, he might say, unblushing, "Nobody's," In his youth, he has not yet understood that poets like poetry, and novelists like novels; he himself likes only the role, the thought of himself in a hat.”
― Annie Dillard, The Writing Life

“I never have time to write anymore. And when I do I only write about how I never have time. It's work and it's money and I've written more lists than songs lately. I stay up all night to do all these things I need to do, be all these things I want to be, playing with shadows in the darkness that shouldn't be able to exist. Empty bottles and cigarettes while watching the sunrise, why do I complain? I have it all, everything I ever asked for.”
― Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps

“I don't write like this in order to show how clever and well read I am--though I am rather clever and well read as a matter of fact.”
― John Heath-Stubbs

“I haven’t had writer’s block. I think it’s because my process involves writing very badly.”
― Jennifer Egan

“You write a hit play the same way you write a flop”
― William Saroyan

“The more I write the more I learn about writing. It is easy to say what looks good or sound good on paper until you experience it for yourself.”
― Jeanette Michelle

“When I write, I feel like an armless leg less man with a crayon in his mouth.”
― Vonnegut

“Always choose love over fear.”
― A.D. Posey

“You need to establish a degree of privacy and solitude in order to write”
― Pamela Glass Kelly, From Inspiration to Publication: How to Succeed As a Children's Writer Advice from 15 Award Winning Writers

“Camomille: Fallible men write books. God writes in sunlight and rivers and planets. Isn't the Universe a good book? I trust it above the printed kind.”
― Mark Siegel, Sailor Twain: Or: The Mermaid in the Hudson

“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.”
― Linda F. Radke, The Economical Guide to Self-Publishing: How to Produce and Market Your Book on a Budget

“When a poet settled down to write a poem, could he foresee the lines he would write? Did his head constantly spin with riddles and rhymes and was his only job to put them down? What if he couldn’t get them to make sense, and no one, not even the person he cared for most, could have pleasure in reading it? What would he do?”
― Alysha Speer, Sharden

“Write what you know best. If you can't survive a cross-examination from a lawyer on the subject, you won't survive an interview with a journalist or anchorperson." Linda Radke, President of Five Star Publications.”
― Linda F. Radke

“In the twenty-first century, human minds, and to a lesser extent, human hearts can work like well calibrated precision instruments, but who can write the universal manual on imagination?”
― Martin Guevara Urbina, Latino Access to Higher Education: Ethnic Realitites and New Directions for the Twenty-first Century

“People write for ego gratification, not money.”
― Deborah Meyler, The Bookstore

“Escribir y escribir. Siento un placer casi morboso al escribir estas sensaciones. Por nada del mundo quisiera estar en otra parte ni en otro ser.”
― Alejandra Pizarnik, Diarios / Diaries (Spanish Edition) by Alejandra Pizarnik

“Professional writers write to fit”
― Pamela Glass Kelly, From Inspiration to Publication: How to Succeed As a Children's Writer Advice from 15 Award Winning Writers

“It is okay to say that 'yep, this isn't working”
― Kim Chance

“Spoken words write upon the canvas of sound etching emotions upon my thoughts to be interpreted by my spirit and I grow.”
― Jeffrey G. Duarte

“Write with courage, regardless of your skill.”
― Nitya Prakash

“If you're not entertaining yourself while writing--don't write.”
― Don Roff

“A revolutionary idea about writing. The profound writers are not always holding the pens, immersed in word extraction. They are those who are experiencing life richly, and deeply, falling in love with it, And the moment comes when the words fall off the pen by the light of depths, for writing then becomes a love affair of the soul.”
― Jayita Bhattacharjee

“I stopped writing in the obvious. I wrote how I saw it and if they don’t understand it, that’s fine.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“I stopped writing in a way they would understand because it wasn’t for them or even him. It was for I to understand, for I to make sense, and for I to let go of it.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“And when the chips are down
and you've had enough
remember still you have a voice
speak up!
shout if you must!
do not let life take the last bit of you”
― Liza Ortiz, The Awakening of God’s Last Dragon: Overcoming and empowering, self-discovery book of poetry with illustrations.

“Every writer is, in a way, a common wandering suicide in their relentless sincerity; they are not given the privilege of weighing their own words. They want to bring to the stage what others prefer to keep behind the curtains; hence arises a curious tendency to eventually become persona non grata in their own society, if not in humanity itself. Words cut deeper than the sharpest blades.

In any case, their voice no longer belongs to them: it is the voice of many. Their individuality cannot belong to them – the illusion of the ego is shattered. They are no longer the master of their epiphanies, and once declared, those epiphanies become someone else’s. Whether writing out of pain, love, or for attention, in other words, the poet cannot be blamed for words that are not theirs – they merely passed through them, like an autumn wind that sweeps through trees and makes the leaves fall. They utter the words, simply giving form to what they found along the way.

Nor should they concern themselves with anything else anymore – writing is far above other matters, especially the empty opinions of those who only know how to repeat the discourse taught to them, the critics who have accomplished nothing, and the grammarians who try to correct the poems of immortal poets. Especially because writing, in its dialectical purpose, does not serve to clarify but to confuse, conceal, evade, or even to jest and mock. The writer owes loyalty to no one except, solely, their own art.”
― Geverson Ampolini

“Write out your pain till the end of night, and to the opening of a new sunrise, pen your pain till the end of your torment, and to the beginning of delight.”
― Jayita Bhattacharjee