Quotes I've Fallen in Love with

Writing/Words Pt. 2

"The words overpower me. They bleed through my flesh like sweat, pounding my head like a thousand tiny fists beating me from the inside, churn my gut like a hamster running amok on a wire wheel. Too much. It's too much. I might vomit." - Oblivion pg. 56

"Writing is an underestimated art, you are painting colorful images in people's minds by using words of black and white." - i.c. "The Art of Writing" (via delacatepoetry.tumblr.com)

"I'm afraid, I realize. I'm afraid of the words-those I'm about to say, and the ones racing through my brain. Afraid of why I think of them, afraid of what they might mean." - Oblivion pg. 135

"On the outside, I used my hands. I felt them struggle, fight back, and then just give in. In here? The words do the killing for me. I've been killing you since the day we met. Your hate, your rage...your damn...hope. Y'all are so predictable. Boring. Oh. God. I hate boring." - Dale (Netflix Original Series, The Killing)

"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing." - Benjamin Franklin

"I think my hands are the most tortured part of my body because they can't stop writing to someone who is not there." - Unknown

"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow

"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that the English language is as pure as a crib house whore. It not only borrows words from other languages; it has on occasion chased other languages down dark alley ways, clipped them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." - James Nicoll (via writingquotes.tumblr.com)

"Your mind is so beautiful. Your heart is so strong. Your soul is so beautiful. I want to save them from the big bad world, but all I can do is write about how beautiful, strong, and special you are." - Livia (via wnq-writers)

"Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself. It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of his divine discontent." - Harper Lee

"I'm still writing about you and you haven't read a word." - Travis Grandt

"I write because there is a fire inside me that only ink can put out." - wordsinmyfingertips (via wnq-writers)

"You know that you are a writer if you are imaginative. You know that you are a writer if you are curious. You know that you are a writer if you are interested in the things and people of the world. You know that you are a writer if you hold a minor ball in you hand and wonder about its story. You know that you are a writer if you like the sound of rain on the roof. And if you want to tell someone else about your heart and how waiting for the thunder makes you feel, if you work to find the words to do that, then you are a writer." -Jon Scieszka, Guys Read: Funny Business