writing-quotes

It's a difficult path that we tread, us Indie self-publishers, but we're not alone. How many bands practicing in their dad__ garage have heard of a group from the neighbourhood who got signed by a recording company? Or how many artists who love to paint, but are not really getting anywhere with it hear of someone they went to art school with being offered an exhibition in a gallery? How many chefs who love to get creative around food hear of someone else who__ just landed a job with Marco Pierre White? There__ no difference between us and them. There is, however, a huge difference in how everyone else perceives the writer. And there__ a huge difference between all of us _ the writers, the musicians, the composers, the chefs, the dance choreographers and to a certain extent the tradesmen - and the rest of society in that no one understands us. It__ a wretched dream to hope that our creativity gets recognised while our family thinks we__e wasting our time when the lawn needs mowing, the deck needs painting and the bedroom needs decorating. It__ acceptable to go into the garage to tinker about with a motorbike, but it__ a waste of a good Sunday afternoon if you go into the garage and practice your guitar, or sit in your study attempting to capture words that have been floating around your brain forever.

Writing is more about telling other peoples' stories than your own

There is no apology for passion

Words are the writer's sorcery, our dark arts and our sleight of hand. They're our enchantment and our temptation

Even now, I am anxious about the naked thoughts that I have shared. The observations are blisteringly honest and of course they have to be.

Writing about oneself is an egotistical adventure unless the act of self-exploration revolves around the distinct goal of heightening a person__ cache of knowledge, ideas, and level of self-awareness.

Writing is a cerebral journey where the writer molds experience into useful thought capsules and thoughtfully takes recitative inventory of their spiritual depot. The act of personal essay writing is a subtle search to track and discover how a contiguous chain of occurrences links the essayist__ case history of rational and irrational behavior. Writing a person__ life story fosters acceptance of their prior personal failures and serves to open a doorway to living modestly and harmoniously.

Attempting to express a person__ objective reality and subjective state of mind with the written word is an endless task because writing alters our perception of reality and amends our mental equilibrium.

those who does not read, they miss the important aspects of life.

People naturally impose a narrative story-line upon their experiences. Autobiographical writing allows a person to cast their experiences into a narrative thread and organize their thoughts based not upon conjecture but with applied reason.

Telling our personal story reveals the shape shifting landscape of our mind.

Sharing our personal stories makes us grateful for experiencing the radiance of being alive. Writing our personal stories documenting our vivid encounters with the larger world and examining our own time-tested ideas shapes the conception of our own being.

There is just too much cruelty, selfishness and corruption in the world not to want to crush the poisonous will of those who cause it by writing about it as powerfully as I can.

Like a splendid mosaic of myriad colors, she in all her hues of sensitivity would paint her feelings in your mind__ gray skies. She was the butterfly making you run after her. She was the Zahir, a mirage that transcended borders and time-zones.

Impatience may be a virtue if you have to write for today's generation.

I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing

When writing feels like jumping a cliff, grab the nearest pen!

A writer__ tools are desperation, humiliation, loneliness, love, affection, heartache, happiness, glee, defeat, victory, setbacks, and a desire for personal redemption. People with the experience to know of such things relate that in order to write one must suffer an alleyway of anguish, and experience an array of physical and emotional pain. More than anything else, emotional growth, and writing are each reflective of the immeasurable gain accomplished through studious reflection.