Writings Quotes (page 8)

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• writing
• moments
• preserves

Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment. Marge Piercy

• couple
• seductive
• writing

Writing is seduction. Good talk is part of seduction. If not so, why do so many couples who start the evening at dinner wind up in bed? Stephen King

• hope
• writing
• little

Write a little every day, without hope, without despair. Isak Dinesen

• prayer
• writing
• writes

Writing is prayer. Franz Kafka

• nature
• writing
• storytelling

Writing controlled fiction is called "plotting." Buckling your seatbelt and letting the story take over, however...that is called "storytelling." Storytelling is as natural as breathing; plotting is the literary version of artificial respiration. Stephen King

• kindness
• writing
• magic

Writing stories is a kind of magic, too. Cornelia Funke

• writing
• door
• the doors

Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. Stephen King

• writing
• magic
• magical

Writing stories is a type of magic too. Cornelia Funke

• success
• writing
• voices

Writing is successful schizophrenia because I’m paid to hear voices in my head. Jodi Picoult

• soul
• journey
• memorial

Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul. Isabel Allende

• moments
• old
• hope

Write it on your heartthat every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the daywho allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety. Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in. Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely, with too high a spiritto be cumbered with your old nonsense. This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste... Ralph Waldo Emerson

• change
• people
• writing

Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again. It’s like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You... Anne Lamott

• silence
• struggle
• writing

Writing is a struggle against silence. Carlos Fuentes

• time
• writing
• clock

Writing fiction takes me out of time. I sit down and the clock will not exist for me for a few hours. That’s probably as close to immortal as we’ll ever get. David Foster Wallace

• kindness
• thinking
• writing

Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don't think anyone could havemade me do it, or prevented me from doing it. J. K. Rowling