Writing Whisper Quotes

Word by word, the language of women so often begins with a whisper. ~ Terry Tempest Williams

It is the writer's job to craft a story so compelling that strangers will pay to hear it. ~ Seeley James

In terms of my Indianness, I try not to rely on it nor deny it. When it comes up organically in my writing, we can address it. About five years ago, we wrote this episode of 'The Office,' called 'Diwali,' which seemed like an organic way of using it. ~ Mindy Kaling

Tighten your prose so the story flows. ~ Anna Dobritt

If we don't value the people who inspire us (and money is one mark of that) then what kind of culture are we building? ~ Sara Sheridan

It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life. ~ Amy Tan

Some of my affectionate envious friends say, "You write too much." Maybe, I answer. But as long as the best of your little is worse than the worst of my much, I will keep on doing so. ~ Juan Ramon Jimenez

I love a lots of things about being a writer! The thrill of seeing characters come to life, and the satisfaction as a story starts to fall into place. Independence not being answerable to anyone but myself or tied to a nine-to-five routine is very important to me, too. And of course, it's great being a writer when it comes to parties! In my experience, most people are fascinated by the process of writing and the whole idea of romantic fiction, even if they have never read any. ~ Jessica Hart

When a writer has done the best that he can do, he should then withdraw from the book-writing business and take up an honest trade like shoe repair, cattle stealing, or screwworm management. ~ Edward Abbey

Westerns have often been considered the ugly stepchild of genre writing... ~ Johnny D. Boggs

I think it's important to be sincere. And I could be the most sincere just staying in [my] mother language actually. And that's the reason why I stay composing and writing in French. ~ Stromae

Your diary should be a nepenthe. ~ Joe Dunthorne

I'm always writing towards a discovery. When I'm writing poems in particular, I'm often writing because a few images coalesced in my mind and I thought, "I wonder why these images are abrading against each other. I wonder what happens if put them in a poem and explore them." I'm trying to learn something every time I write a poem. ~ Alison Hawthorne Deming

I love writing, and I am never as happy as when I have a week, a month - three months - with nothing to do but write. ~ Bernhard Schlink

Imagination is a spark of a divine light. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I've never really seen too much difference between writing or making visual art or designing furniture or clothing. It's still my brain - I'm just using different parts of it for different things. ~ Douglas Coupland

I think that songwriting is understood from an early age that was the priority to figure out first. Learn to write a good song, and then figure out who you are as an artist because, once you know how to write a good song, you can dress it in any kind of clothing. ~ Lights

No matter how much money I made from writing, I'd keep the bookstore job. ~ Jami Attenberg

Why one goes on writing when one sees what writing can be - and what one's own writing is not. Aldous Huxley ~ Nicholas Murray

I had a professor in college who returned our graded essays, walked up to the chalkboard, and wrote in huge letters: "SO WHAT?" She threw the piece of chalk down and said, "Ask yourself that every time you turn in a piece of writing." It's a lesson I never forgot. ~ Austin Kleon

He pauses his analysis of my chest and looks up into my eyes. His stare holds me there for a long moment and I realise I am succumbing to his will whether I like it or not. He is the predator - he has been all along - and I am his prey. Aurelie of Donrose, it seems, was no match for this invader from the northlands.
"Unexpected?" he repeats.
He rises with care to a standing position, grasping the post to his left for support. His tall frame is now right next to me, his head skimming the silken canopy over us. He leans toward me and presses himself against my nakedness. I gasp, closing my eyes at the contact and yet relishing the physical closeness.
"Does that mean my captive is warming to her new master?"
I open my eyes to find his face right there, above me, that large mouth ready to devour its prey. "I… I don't know," I whisper, looking into his eyes. There's an honesty about my answer that disconcerts me.
Anders shifts his weight slightly, snaking his right hand around my body and skimming my behind. Once there he grabs my left cheek and holds me, using my own body to pull me closer to him. My throbbing wet centre, already pushed forward by the bondage holding my ankles in place, nestles against his clothed right thigh.
"You are not sure, Aurelie, or you are just too afraid to say?"
I blush at his accurate analysis of the situation, dropping my eyes from his gaze. His hand rises north, leaving my ass and taking me by surprise. Anders uses ~ Felicity Brandon

Never judge your own writing. You're not fit to do so. ~ Isaac Asimov

I started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear. ~ John Sladek

Smokey Robinson writes the heartfelt songs, whereas it was my job to write the songs about weakness and failure in love. ~ Elvis Costello

I'm terrible at story and structure, but I'm not so bad at writing dialogue. ~ Steve Buscemi

The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine. ~ Robert Bresson

When the climbers in 1953 planted their flags on the highest mountain, they set them in snow over the skeletons of creatures that had lived in the warm clear ocean that India, moving north, blanked out. Possibly as much as twenty thousand feet below the seafloor, the skeletal remains had turned into rock. This one fact is a treatise in itself on the movements of the surface of the earth. If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone. ~ John McPhee

Why write wrong if the writing won't right the wrong? (90) ~ Sandra M. Gilbert

Twitter actually may be improving its users' writing, as it forces them to wring meaning from fewer letters - it ~ Christian Rudder

Persecution mania is still around. In your writing, in your exchanges with people, meeting people who are in Russian affairs, Russian literature, etcetera. ~ Joseph Brodsky

Sometimes it's impossible to say certain things ... Writing is something needed by man to share experience. ~ Arnost Lustig

There was no really good true war book during the entire four years of the war. The only true writing that came through during the war was in poetry. One reason for this is that poets are not arrested as quickly as prose writers. ~ Ernest Hemingway,

The principal aim underlying this work is to render homage where homage is due, a task which I know beforehand is impossible of accomplishment. Were I to do it properly, I would have to get down on my knees and thank each blade of grass for rearing its head. What chiefly motivates me in this vain task is the fact that in general we know all too little about the influences which shape a writer's life and work. The critic, in his pompous conceit and arrogance, distorts the true picture beyond all recognition. The author, however truthful he may think himself to be, inevitably disguises the picture. The psychologist, with his single-track view of things, only deepens the blur. As author, I do not think myself an exception to the rule. I, too, am guilty of altering, distorting and disguising the facts - if 'facts' there be. My conscious effort, however, has been - perhaps to a fault– in the opposite direction. I am on the side of revelation, if not always on the side of beauty, truth, wisdom, harmony and ever-evolving perfection. In this work I am throwing out fresh data, to be judged and analyzed, or accepted and enjoyed for enjoyment's sake. Naturally I cannot write about all the books, or even all the significant ones, which I have read in the course of my life. But I do intend to go on writing about books and authors until I have exhausted the importance (for me) of this domain of reality.

To have undertaken the thankless task of listing all the books I can rec ~ Henry Miller

I'm not writing novels, the screenplays are my novels, so I'm gonna write it the best that I can. If the movie never gets made, it'd almost be okay because I did it. It's there on the page. ~ Quentin Tarantino

I love to go back and write and direct another film one day, but that's on the backburner for now because I'm involved with so much television at the moment. ~ Kevin D. Williamson