Best 244 quotes in «creative writing quotes» category

One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them.

The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite.

The best style is the style you don't notice.

Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.

Action is the mother of creation.

You have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

A good swordsman is more important than a good sword.

Action achieves ambition.

All I need to do is place my pen against paper and your love writes for me.

After you have done your work—challenging as it may have been to complete—and released it in the marketplace, be not concerned with sales, reviews, critical acclaim, or anything else of the like... After you've written and published a book, you're now an AUTHOR. And that great honor can NEVER be taken away from you, no matter what. ("My Book Place," 2018)

An assembly is extra slow in taking actions.

Anecdotes don't make good stories. Dig down so far that what finally comes out is not even what you thought it was about.

An entrepreneur with strong network makes money even when he is asleep.

An invention is a responsibility of the individual, society cannot invent, it can only applaud the invention and inventor.

A marijuana high can enhance core human mental abilities. It can help you to focus, to remember, to see new patterns, to imagine, to be creative, to introspect, to empathically understand others, and to come to deep insights. If you don’t find this amazing you have lost your sense of wonder. Which, by the way, is something a high can bring back, too.

Any girl with a grin never looks grim.

Anything which you have in profusion is poison

A poetess is not as selfish as you assume. After months of agonising over her marriage of words—the bride— and spaces—the groom, she knows that as soon as she has penned the poem, it’s yours to consume. So, without giving it a think, she blows on the ink and the letters fly away like dandelions on a windy day, landing on hands and lips, on hearts and hips. But more often than not, you can easily spot them trodden and forgotten, becoming sodden and rotten. Yet, she will continue to make what’s others to take because selfishness is not the mark of a poetess.

A poor, who hates power, once become powerful, hates poor.

A powerful process automatically takes care of progress, productivity and profits.

A professional who doesn't deliver as committed is not just lazy, he is a liar.

All stories are the sin of their weaver.

Anger gets you into trouble, ego keeps you in trouble.

Arrogant men with knowledge make more noise from their mouth than making a sense from their mind.

An old fashioned outfit is not a costume, it's a comedy.

A random guy I met at a party I went to in high school told me not to study creative writing because in his opinion studying creative writing as a major sucks the love of writing out of you (he was a creative writing major, so he said he would know). I did not want the love of writing sucked out of me, so I followed his advice (however, I did take a few creative writing workshops at IU and I enjoyed them very much). Instead, I had the love of art sucked out of me. Years later I met that guy from the party again in New York City where I moved after college to be an illustrator, and we got married.

As a writer, I marinate, speculate, and hibernate.

As a writer you try to listen to what others aren't saying...and write about the silence.

As We Sail By We float Through purple velvet skies Out where, black holes are born And the Milky-Way dies We fly Through purple hazed skies Out where, nebulas fade And an apricot sun spies We coast Through purple blue skies Out where, the platinum moon sits and Supernovas explode as we sail by Excerpt from: Exegesis, a Decade of Poetry, by Mekael © Mekael Shane 2009

As you become a better writer, the writing becomes more difficult. You toil harder to tell a story in a smaller number of words.

A slip of the foot may injure your body, but a slip of the tongue will injure your bond.

A true professional not only follows but loves the processes, policies and principles set by his profession.

At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that — the young man or the young woman must possess or teach himself, train himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try and to try until it comes right. He must train himself in ruthless intolerance. That is, to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph. The most important thing is insight, that is ... curiosity to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does. And if you have that, then I don't think the talent makes much difference, whether you've got that or not. [Press conference, University of Virginia, May 20, 1957]

Art is the overflow of emotion into action.

At the last minute, he broke the rule and he looked. He was so rapt in his view of the light at the end of the tunnel, he got excited, tuned up, he got crazy nervous and for a second he wavered in his confidence and he looked! To confirm or affirm or just firm up,’ students laughing ‘his manly love for her and in that motion of divine stupidity, he killed her dead forever with a glance. Hades ripped her back into his den and that was, proverbially, that.’ A girl across from me says bitterly, ‘No second, second chance for Orpheus.’ ‘He was fucked,’ D continues, nodding. ‘Not because the gods were heartless, but because he fucked up. The guilt of that. Can you imagine? Spent the rest of his pathetic days wallowing, lamenting, composing (or was it decomposing?) heartbreaking tunes upon his lyre, dissolving in grief and music and art, never being the least bit happy or lovable. The saddest sap of all. How do we tell a story like that without being sappy? Oh woe! How do we shape into lines our most harrowing mistakes and losses without drenching them in sticky poetic sap?

A writer can do without food for a few hours but not without the sight of books.

A word of warning here. The events as you remember them will never be the same in your memory once you have turned them into a memoir. For years I have worried that if I turn all of my life into literature, I won't have any real life left - just stories about it. And it is a realistic concern: it does happen like that. I am no longer sure I remember how it felt to be twenty and living in Spain after my parents died; my book about it stands now between me and my memories. When I try to think about that time, what comes to mind most readily is what I wrote.

A writer gets to live yet another life every time he or she creates a new story.

Before we complicated life with money, machines and missiles we did well with morals, manpower and meetings.

Before you worry about the beauty of your body, worry about the health of your body.

Be a good reader first if you wish to become a good writer.

Because at night when others are sleeping, I drown myself in poetry.

Brilliance of the brain must be admired more than beauty of the body.

Branding is a lot of things, but one thing it's not is soft. When you brand, rebrand or brand-diggity, ask yourself one thing to do it right: how will my brand create buyers? If you’re in business, that’s the goal. Buyers. Branding done well creates both long term loyalty and timely purchases.

Characters are limbs that writers use to kill with.

But I'm not even human, waking on this soil like a dead life.

Clichés are the viruses that infect your writing with diseases.

By the early-afternoon hours, if your brain is normal, it's running strictly on inertia and reflex. All you can do during those hours are the things that are exactly like other things you've done in similar situations. Creativity is out of the question. You might argue that you don't notice any difference in your thinking during the afternoon. That's because you're too dazed to notice anything during those hours. I'm sure it's true for me; I believe you could set my eyebrows on fire during the afternoon and I wouldn't notice until sometime the next morning.

Civilians enjoy their time because soldiers sacrifice their time.

Create a world in front of your readers where they can taste, smell, touch, hear, see, and move. Or else they are likely going to move on to another book.