Words have a magical quality to them. Anyone who loves words understands the beauty hidden in a tapestry of words stitched together to drape over your soul.
There are millions of quotes that express the art of writing and weaving words to create emotions. Below are the ones that we absolutely love. These quotes depict the challenges of being a writer, the frustrations of a mind in overdrive, sometimes blank, sometimes over flowing with thoughts.
“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
–Anaïs Nin
“If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.”
–Toni Morrison
“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
–Saul Bellow
“Read, read, read. Read everything – trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.”
–William Faulkner
“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
–Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing
“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
–Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
“A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time–proof that humans can work magic.”
― Carl Sagan
“As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.”
― Ernest Hemingway
