Writing Quotes - Page 98

I wasn't predicted to be anything. I just followed an inner spirit, and it put me in the right place and the right time. I didn't want to be the mayor of Atlanta. I didn't want to run for Congress. I didn't want to work for Martin Luther King Jr. I wanted to work close to him and be a writer and write about the movement.

I only write about stuff that’s happened to me.. stuff I can’t get past personally. Luckily, I'm quite self-destructive.

The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.

It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.

I was inspired by lots of people, certainly in acting and in writing and stuff, but I never wanted to be somebody else.

One of the easiest things in the world is not to write... If it were easy, everyone would do it.

You are a bundle of mysteries. Finding and conquering yourself is a lifetime task. There are unplumbed depths in you full of the rich ore of personal discovery. Explore your self! There is power in you — the power to change yourself and to change the world.

People write because it seems like it'll be an easier job than carpet laying, that they might meet more girls. And they write because the world strikes them as being a marvelous place, and they want to keep bringing that to everybody's attention. You know ~ a scary place, a menacing place, an exciting place because it's scary and menacing. But mainly, kind of glorious.

Every man is a book in which God himself writes.

Writing is one of the ways I participate in transformation.

Dear Mother, I meant to write you before this and I hope you haven't been worried.... I have met some Beautiful People and...

The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together.

The patterns are simple, but followed together, they make for a whole that is wiser than the sum of its parts. Go for a walk; cultivate hunches; write everything down, but keep your folders messy; embrace serendipity; make generative mistakes; take on multiple hobbies; frequent coffeehouses and other liquid networks; follow the links; let others build on your ideas; borrow, recycle; reinvent. Build a tangled bank.

The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting.

I think the whole glory of writing lies in the fact that it forces us out of ourselves and into the lives of others.

If there is a book you want to read but isn`t written yet,write it.

The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful... to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to be afloat, to be out of yourself.

Great classic music that I've been turned on to has not only inspired and influenced me, but it has had an effect on my songwriting.

There is no artifice as good and desirable as simplicity.

So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.

It's extremely important for women to be writing their own stories and giving them to people to really be emotionally impacted by

Occasionally, there arises a writing situation where you see an alternative to what you are doing, a mad, wild gamble of a way for handling something, which may leave you looking stupid, ridiculous or brilliant -you just don't know which. You can play it safe there, too, and proceed along the route you'd mapped out for yourself. Or you can trust your personal demon who delivered that crazy idea in the first place. Trust your demon.

A man is crazy who writes a secret in any other way than one which will conceal it from the vulgar.

If you want to be a rock star, you're not going to just walk on stage. You gotta go practice in the garage until your fingers bleed. I always say that - the same with writing and the same with filmmaking - if it's really your passion, you've just got to stick with it and do it.

Writing is a marathon, not a sprint.