Quotes about Writing

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This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the sc — David Levithan, Every Day
some moments are nice, some arenicer, some are even worthwritingabout. — Charles Bukowski, War All the Time
Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I have ever met. I could — Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it. — Shannon L. Alder
When you're missing a peice of yourself, aching, gut wrenching emptiness begins to take over. Until you find the link th — Jennifer Salaiz
If a writer falls in love with you, you can never die. — Mik Everett
Making love to me is amazing. Wait, I meant: making love, to me, is amazing. The absence of two little commas nearly tra — Dark Jar Tin Zoo, Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.
When we are in love, we are convinced nobody else will do. But as time goes, others do do, and often do do, much much be — Coco J. Ginger
I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all t — Audre Lorde
There's two kinds of women--those you write poems about and those you don't. — Jeffrey McDaniel
Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff. — Harvey Pekar
One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper. — Michael Cunningham
Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole lif — Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect. — John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
When Great Trees FallWhen great trees fall,rocks on distant hills shudder,lions hunker downin tall grasses,and even elep — Maya Angelou
Cynics are simply thwarted romantics. — William Goldman, The Princess Bride
Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen. — Willa Cather
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. — Leonard Cohen
Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out. — Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape — Graham Greene, Ways of Escape