Quotes of: Write Keyword

Sometime all you need is love ... Oh wait! And ice cream, and chocolate to go along with it as nowadays love is anything but sweet.

Write like no one is reading 2

Why we love with close hearts Why we love with souls apart Let the love flow from hearts to souls, Let the world glow

Write like no one is reading 2

And, instead of pelting these babbling idiots with their own freshly toasted marshmallows, everyone else sitting around the fire is often nodding and smiling and looking solemny thoughtful.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

It is completely raw, the sort of thing I feel free to do with the door shut—it’s the story undressed, standing up in nothing but its socks and undershorts.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

You try to tell yourself that you've been lucky, most incredibly lucky, and usually that works because it's true. Sometimes it doesn't work, that's all. Then you cry.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

A writer need not be bound by flat statement like "It was a rough sea," when verbs like and and wait to spell from her pen.

Word Painting: A Guide to Writing More Descriptively

The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.

The Writings and Speeches of Daniel Webster: Diplomatic Papers and Miscellaneous Letters

Both reading and writing are experiences--lifelong-- in the course of which we who encounter words used in certain ways are persuaded by them to be brought mind and heart within the presence, the power, of the imagination.

On Writing

The self-esteem one acquires and a well-earned feeling of one's strength are the only consolation in this world. Income, after all, most brutes have that.

The Writings of a Savage

Most of the supposedly Sufi organizations, exercises and “orders” are in fact only of archaeological interest.

The World of the Sufi: An Anthology of Writings about Sufis and Their Work

Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.

Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.

Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

If you cannot sit on a throne like a king, seize, like a tent-pitcher, the rope of the Royal tent.

The World of the Sufi: An Anthology of Writings about Sufis and Their Work

Si no puedes sentarte en un trono como un rey, sujeta, como un tendero, la cuerda de la tienda Real.

The World of the Sufi: An Anthology of Writings about Sufis and Their Work

Never be afraid to write what you believe. If the message speaks the truth, others will fear your words for you.

Writing Affirmations: A Collection of Positive Messages to Inspire Writers

Every word I write is a seed that I may nurture into a small, beautiful poem or a tall, soaring tree.

Writing Affirmations: A Collection of Positive Messages to Inspire Writers

Ever since I could first write I have been doing so. When I was taught how to write and read at school, I made up my mind that this was what I love to do best and this was the world I was going to occupy.

Anita Desai

For me, writing time has always been precious, something I wait for and am eager for and make the best use of. That's probably why I get up so early and have writing time in the quiet dawn hours, when no one needs me.

Barbara Kingsolver

I consider myself a writer who writes about American expatriates. And if I have any overt cause as a writer besides writing the best prose I can, it's to try to make Americans have a more visceral feeling about how America impacts everybody in the wo...

Bob Shacochis

Writing itself is a dream. There are days of self doubt and deadlines and wondering how you're going to pay the bills until you write that bestseller. But it's still the best job I've ever had. I've also been able to help a lot of people and even ins...

Graham Brown