Ksenia Anske Quotes

A great book is the one you dive in and swim until there is no air left, but you keep swimming, forgetting air, breathing the story.

Books are merely translations of our emotions into words that allow us to connect on an almost blood transfusion level.

There are only three things I do. I read. I write. And I fart glitter.

True horror is not in our stories, it's in our lives. Stories help us process it.

Lilith Bloom had the peculiar feeling that the rose garden wanted to eat her.

Your worry days are over. You're a writer. Worry on paper.

That's one huge puppy.

Your dream won't happen if all you do is dream about it. Do it.

I want to bury my head in books like in pillows and breathe in stories like air.

Don't worry about getting published. Write for therapy. Write for you.

Writing is breathing life into forgotten memories.

Just forget the world and its naysayers. Close the door and write. Let them talk while you're building your future.

Reading makes me thirsty for writing. Writing makes me thirsty for reading. The cycle never ends.

I'm sleeping. I need my thinking sleep for future thinking; otherwise, my thinking will not be thinking but merely ruminating last night's thoughts that by this morning, will surely prove to be obsolete. Now, if you don't mind...

Writers are those weird people that like to take off their skin in public.

Hey, you, aspiring writer, stop aspiring and start WRITING already!

Writing is an amazing thing. Because paper doesn't tell you to shut up, never ever EVER.

Your curse is yourself. You're the biggest obstacle you will ever have to battle.

A writer is a genius not when critics say so, but when her or his book pierces your heart and rips off your blindness with its brilliance.

Who says you're alone? There is the sky to hug you, the trees to whisper to you, the ground to hold you, the flowers to nod to you.

Who is happy sitting alone at home, reading a book, smiling like a lunatic? A WRITER.

Does world seem black and white to you? Read books. You will see color.

Writing a book is like pulling strands out of your soul, one by one, until one day instead of a mess it finally looks like a story.

Writers don't sleep. Writers keep writing in their heads while they're dreaming.

To be able to write a novel you have to be willing to fall out of life for 1 year and not let anyone sway you.

Fear is the most debilitating obstacle to creativity.

If I didn't write, I'd explode in a brilliant shower of literacy sparkles and would be no more.

I live on the mountain of my madness, on the very top.