Quotes I've Fallen in Love with

Writing/Words Quotes Pt. 3

"Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness. There exists a striking association between creativity and manic depression. Why are more creative people prone to madness? They have more than average amounts of energies and abilities to see things in a fresh and original way - then because they also have depression, I think they're more in touch with human suffering." - Nick Flynn, Another Bullsh*t Night in Suck City (via wordsnquotes)

"Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them."- Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me (Shatter Me, #2)

"A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer." - Karl Kraus

"What I wanted to do was slap him down a bit with wit and words. Grammar and vocabulary as a weapon. But what kind of a world would it be if we all took every opportunity presented to us to assault the weak?" - Charles Frazier, Thirteen Moons

"When writer's block hits, do research. Flip through old photographs. Watch a documentary. Read a nonfiction book, preferably one that's been out of print for years. Visit a place you've never been and talk to people you don't know. Gather input." - Gene Luen Young (NaNoWriMo pep talk)

"Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people's." - Anais Nin

"Bad writing proceeds good writing. This is an infallible rule, so don't waste time trying to avoid bad writing. (That just slows down the process.) Anything committed to paper can be changed. The idea is to start, and then go from there." - Janet Hulstrand (via www.writerswrite.co.za)

"Why does one begin to write? Because she feels misunderstood, I guess. Because it's never comes out clearly enough when she tries to speak. Because she wants to replace the world, to take it in and give it back differently, so that everything is used and nothing is lost. Because it's something to do to pass the time until she's old enough to experience the things she writes about." - Nicole Krauss

"I always speak the truth. Not the whole truth, because there's no way, to say at all. Saying it all is the truly impossible: words fail. Yes it's through this very impossibility that the truth holds onto the real."- Jacques Lacan (via fyp-psychology.tumblr.com)

"Words left unsaid will sit inside your mind screaming." - Unknown (via simplereminders.tumblr.com)

"I try not to fall in love with words because somehow they're always the wrong ones." - danceinmyminds-am-s (via wnq-writers)

"And in that place, her heart resides. Where echoes are silent and words are loud." - vomitingwords (via wnq-writers)

"You are the author of your story. If you're stuck on the same page, remember that at any moment, you have the power to write a new chapter." - Anonymous (via wnq-anonymous.tumblr.com)

"As a writer you try to listen to what others aren't saying...and write about the silence." - N. R. Hart

"I can't explain what I mean. And even if I could, I'm not sure I'd feel like it." - J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

"I write in hopes that you'll read." - kj-knight (via wnq-writers)

"I can't draw a straight line, but I'll paint you the universe with my words." - ser-endipiful (via wnq-writers)