Quotes Elvish Writing Quotes

Writing - the act of one person giving a piece of their soul to another. ~ J. Spredemann

Writing isn't only about a completed piece of work.
It's about the writer you're becoming while creating. ~ T.N. Suarez

Grab a pen and your turf will have no limits. ~ Nadun Lokuliyanage

I am grateful to all my readers; you inspired me to keep writing. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Manuscript rejections might tempt you to quit writing or querying.
Don't. ~ T.N. Suarez

Beautiful prose is a floundering fish if it doesn't have a story to swim in. ~ Kevin Ansbro

Motherfuckers will read a book that's one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they [white people] think we're taking over. ~ Junot Diaz

You don't have INSOMNIA.
You're a writer with an unfinished book! ~ T.N. Suarez

It's what we don't say that weighs the most. ~ Abhysheq Shukla

I personally believe that one learns to write by writing. ~ Jack Jordan

Don't worry about offending people. Any time you write something thought provoking, some idiots will complain, because they hate it when you make them think. ~ Oliver Markus Malloy

Writers don't suffer from insanity, they depend upon it! ~ Avijeet Das

A dream is like a first draft.
No one will ever see it but you. ~ T.N. Suarez

Poems must, of course, be written in emotional freedom. Moreover, poems are not language but the content of the language. ~ Mary Oliver

Creativity takes courage. It takes courage to bare your soul for the world. It's like taking off your armor, although you know people have pointy sticks that they love to jab into soft flesh. ~ Oliver Markus Malloy

Writing is the knitting of the soul ~ Khaled Talib

The writer's silent mind is a period of intermission before orchestrating a symphony of words. ~ Khaled Talib

Write your story before it dies one single breath at time. Nobody cares if is the truth as long as it really happened. ~ Brenda Sutton Rose

The less number of people like my writing the happier I become. The masses do not understand a symphony too! ~ Avijeet Das

A writing day is like any other day. Except I live in my pajamas, I forget to eat, and I suddenly look up, wondering when day turned into night. ~ Christy Hall

You made a poet fall in love with the world. ~ Avijeet Das

She cured me of my sadness. ~ Avijeet Das

Writing is a highly encoded form of communication that takes place from one mind to another. ~ David Amerland

Writing fiction or nonfiction is a lonely battle wrestling with sentences in an effort to put together an intelligible thought that speaks for the author. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster

It's better to be remembered for what you said, not what you earned. ~ Carla H. Krueger

Writing is work with a purpose. Writers all throughout history labored to discover a spiritual and life-affirming means to live and attempted to share their faithful or pessimistic vision with other people. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Writing poetry is a passion, ignited by thoughts, fueled by ink. A way to travel through another mind, where souvenirs of tears are tucked away inside your soul. Or leave you with smiles for miles, depending on which route you go. ~ Renee Dixon

Writing is the neck muscle allowing us to see the important stuff in our periphery. ~ Rob Bignell, Editor

A writer writes. There are no exceptions to this reality. No excuses. Stop wasting time talking about your stories and get them on paper. ~ Christy Hall

Writing at its foundation stone is the transmutation of personal experience into thought and weaving intricate patterns of thoughts into graphic scenes. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster

The secret to good writing is to use small words for big ideas, not to use big words for small ideas. ~ Oliver Markus Malloy

No art ever came out of not risking your neck. ~ Eudora Welty

Anyone who says writing is easy isn't doing it right. ~ Amy Joy

Dreams are there for those who dare to dream them. ~ R.K. King

Every book I've read appears in my writing. ~ Rob Bignell, Editor

Your writing should be filled with simple complexities and complex simplicities. Because that is life. ~ Christy Hall

Write what you love. Passion is the key to a good story. ~ R.M. Donaldson

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.
[Cormac McCarthy's Venomous Fiction, New York Times, April 19, 1992] ~ Cormac McCarthy

When I told my teachers I wanted to be a writer, alot of them encouraged me to lower my expectations and to be more realistic. So I rode away on my magical, winged horse, spraying faerie dust behind me, and laughing manically as I went. ~ M.E. Vaughan

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

Your head will tell you a thousand times that it's over before your heart will. ~ Mandy K.

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

You're not the butcher, selling sausages. You're the cow, pre-sausage. ~ Oliver Markus Malloy

Ideas are like flowers that bloom in our mind's garden! ~ Avijeet Das

Through the act of writing, a writer learns more about himself than he could ever imagine. ~ Rob Bignell, Editor

When I had my girls, I knew what magic felt like for the first time. I had created people who didn't exist before. Now I write for the same reason. Creating people and their life's stories through my writing is as close to magic as I'll ever get again. ~ Dori Ann Dupre

My book sales are way down today. Also, I've received two scathing reviews. One of them calls me a purveyor of insipid wet-dreams. ~ Nenia Campbell

Journal writing gives us insights into who we are, who we were, and who we can become. ~ Sandra Marinella

Never chase people in your life. No one is worthier than you to be chased. ~ Avijeet Das

What makes a good book? An author who knows how to leave out all the unnecessary bulk and delivers a lean story where not a single word is fluff. ~ Oliver Markus Malloy

Writing does not exist unless there is someone to read it, and each reader will take something different from a novel, from a chapter, from a line. ~ Claire Fuller

Live inside your stories, yes, but do not hide behind them. ~ Christy Hall

Every word I write is another stroke that takes me to the shore of a completed book. ~ Rob Bignell, Editor

Stories are the way we see ourselves. ~ Sandra Marinella

As a writer, the main skill you need is curiosity. As a reader, the main tool you need is open-mindedness. ~ Gloria D. Gonsalves

Writing fantasy is like opening a door onto millions of people's dreams that they never knew they were having. ~ Michael Timmins

Your first written sentence is the foundation of all of your dreams. ~ Rob Bignell, Editor

Truly successful writers blend the personal and the profound to enlighten and entertain readers while simultaneously banking something for posterity. Remuneration is a wonderful afterthought. ~ Stewart Stafford

Each time I write, I reaffirm my soul. ~ Rob Bignell, Editor

Writing is dreaming with your eyes open - and your heart on fire. ~ Don Roff

Your personal writing can heal, grow, and transform your life. Give your words permission to change you. ~ Sandra Marinella

For the past years I was so good at hiding my pain that it went ignored. ~ Mandy K.

We will read books together inside the blanket and stay warm. And keep writing poetry in our respective journals. Time will fly but we will still remain inside the blanket forever. ~ Avijeet Das

words are tender
and sensitive too
words understand
when others may not ~ Avijeet Das

Follow your dreams, not the crowd. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

History is the roadmap to a better tomorrow. Destroying it is getting rid of any chance of what not to do for future generations. ~ Jason E. Hodges

You can't have a conversation with your descendants when you are dead, but they can when they are alive; write a book! ~ Lamine Pearlheart

..here's the editor's prescription, writer: 1000 words daily until next checkup. ~ Rob Bignell, Editor

There is only one secret to great writing and that's great writing. ~ Chloe Thurlow

Someone asked me, 'How do you write a book?' I said, 'I live with a pen in one hand. ~ Carla H. Krueger

Great places, great memories. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

For me, writing is like stoking a fire; I enjoy being mesmerized by its flames. ~ Laurie Buchanan

If your writing fails to move the emotional needle, you are not reaching your readers. ~ Jack R. Cotner

Folding the laundry, completing another project at work, or watching television for the next hour doesn't build your writing muscles. It only leaves them flabby. ~ Rob Bignell, Editor

Writing is something you Do and not discuss. Talk is cheap, wishes are free and a fool is included with every purchase. So spend your time wisely. ~ Jaime Reed

The clouds made their own images. Looking at them I could fill in the pages. ~ Suyasha Subedi

It's not about the size of your book, It's about the substance in it. ~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

Trying to write something of permanent value is a full-time job. ~ Ernest Hemingway,

All good writers are thieves. The best get away with a heist. ~ Michael Stutz

Writing is part of life, but it is not part of the ordinary busyness of life. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Focus on creating value by finding and solving problems for others. ~ Mensah Oteh

Writing is a form of intense thinking that takes a person on a journey into previously uncharted territory of the writer's mind. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster

The only difference between writers and people who don't write is that writers aren't afraid to display their demons. ~ Carla H. Krueger

You are lovelier than all the roses in the world. ~ Avijeet Das

Weak words can never carry the weight of strong feelings. ~ Terveen Gill

Because.
Everything
worth anything
takes time. ~ Christy Hall

A real piece of writing is one in which the writer has tried to enrich not only the book, but also his understanding of the words. The words themselves have to be open to new ideas and suggestions, and the writer himself must have the audacity to attempt new things and to risk failure ~ Karl Wiggins

I write because there are things in me that cannot die. ~ Sanober Khan

Today is the day that you create worlds, you change lives, you make a something, a someone, out of nothing.
Today is the day you become a writer. ~ Alessandra Torre

I swear that girl was born with a pen in her hand, the moon in her hair and stars in her soul. ~ Melody Lee

When you work on a book and you have planned everything out and you are putting flesh to an idea and a surmise that before was mainly bones something funny happens. Your brain goes into an altered state where the words you write are not quite the words you want but rather the words dictated by the task at hand. ~ David Amerland

It's a struggle to become the man that you want to be. It's harder than you want, it's longer than you want and it takes more out of you than...than you expect that it should. ~ Abhysheq Shukla

Let your emotions guide your hand to the paper and watch how your sorrows can turn into beauty. For tears relieve your body but writing relieves your heart. ~ Raneem Kayyali

Wanted: Fearless Readers & Writers ~ Casey Rislov

When I write, I write obsessively. I try to pace myself, but some fires are too hot to put out. ~ Carla H. Krueger

Stories trace their roots to impassioned human interactions with the world. I always sense a storyline as an emotional yearning embedded in a deep fissure waiting to erupt. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Warriors achieve more than worriers. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Why is it so hard for many erotica authors to admit that erotica is porn? Everyone loves porn! ~ Oliver Markus Malloy

When I read my writing, am amazed by what I have captured in a given moments. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

In reading we live hundreds lives, in writing we live thousands of lives. ~ R.M. Donaldson