writing-quotes

You can curse the darkness, or you can dispel it.

Laughter lights up the darkness.

Writing on dark themes is not as easy as one might think; you have to live the worst and the most terrifying nightmares, again and again, till they consume you entirely and become an inseparable part of you that you start dreading.

I learned from Whitman that the poem is a temple -- or a green field -- a place to enter, and in which to feel. Only in a secondary way is it an intellectual thing -- an artifact, a moment of seemly and robust wordiness --wonderful as that part of it is. I learned that the poem was made not just to exist, but to speak --to be company. It was everything that was needed, when everything was needed.

Relationship are easy when times are good, BUT THE TRUE TEST IS WHAT YOU DO WHEN ( ONE IS BLIND AND OTHER IS VICTIM OF SILENCE ) AND TIMES ARE TOUGH.

To wake up every day with a whisper of a dream and then put pen to paper to make it a reality

For the philosopher, language, thought, and passion are the same. Ideas are personal to a philosopher; they express their human passion and articulate their novel ideas in language. Ideas are more than mere concepts, trifles that the philosophical mind toys with. Ideas provide both the structure and inner vitality that holds great thinkers_ conceptual structure together.

Sometimes your diary is the perfect listener.

I let myself play in an unbounded world of creations on the glorious written page whenever I desire.

I journal my joy, and my joy expands exponentially forevermore. So be it.

I am a storyteller and experience the bliss of writing.

Once you realize life is magic, you will never look upon the world with dimmed eyes again.

Live whatever draws out the magic within.

There are times when I'm writing where time feels irrelevant. Those are the moments I know I'm creating magic.

You can't write a story until you've felt it. Breathed it in. Walked with your characters. Talked with them. That's why you come here. To live your story.

I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this., New York Times, April 19, 1992]

We are inspired by divine power to write.

In a suspended psychic state, writers cull words and symbols from the mystical world of memory, imagination, and intuition.