How To Write Quotes

“The piano is kind of like a dance floor for our thoughts you know? A very woody foundation so that we can really focus on the poetry.”
― Bianca C

“You can edit what you write. Why not edit what you say? If it hurts somebody, you can still offer an apology or withdraw your statements”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“Words disappear in the air, but writing remains. If you want something to be remembered about you, write it down”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“The instruction here is not for every kind of writer - not for the writer of nurse books or thrillers or porno or the cheaper sort of sci-fi - though it is true that what holds for the most serious kind of fiction will generally hold for junk fiction as well. (Not everyone is capable of writing junk fiction: It requires an authentic junk mind. Most creative-writing teachers have had the experience of occasionally helping to produce, by accident, a pornographer. The most elegant techniques in the world, filtered through a junk mind, become elegant junk techniques.)”
― John Gardner, The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers

“People speak even after their death. Only do speak those who have recorded their speech in writing before they die, the rest go silent forever”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“Writing is exposing yourself to strangers”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“You say you have nothing to write about? How do you find things to talk about? You can write about those things you like to talk about, that's your area of expertise”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“. If you want to write, just write anything that comes into your mind. You will be surprised at how you can force inspiration to stand on your side.”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“Every writer should know their target. Aim for the heart ~ hit that and all which follows is sheer ecstasy.”
― Muse

“One day I will write a book. An epitaph”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“If you are writing fiction, think like a god. Release all the power of your imagination; create worlds and destroy them at your will, create as many miracles as your story needs”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“Never give up. Never. Ever. Ever.”
― Nancy Hendrickson

“Writing is a competition between the writer and the page. When the page wins, you fail as a writer.”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“The best writers I've read possess oodles of self-doubt, yet claw their way up with each work and remain humble. Boastful ones, not so much.”
― Don Roff

“He singled out aspects of Quality such as unity, vividness, authority, economy, sensitivity, clarity, emphasis, flow, suspense, brilliance, precision, proportion, depth and so on; kept each of these as poorly defined as Quality itself, but demonstrated them by the same class reading techniques. He showed how the aspect of Quality called unity, the hanging-togetherness of a story, could be improved with a technique called an outline. The authority of an argument could be jacked up with a technique called footnotes, which gives authoritative reference. Outlines and footnotes are standard things taught in all freshman composition classes, but now as devices for improving Quality they had a purpose. And if a student turned in a bunch of dumb references or a sloppy outline that showed he was just fulfilling an assignment by rote, he could be told that while his paper may have fulfilled the letter of the assignment it obviously didn’t fulfill the goal of Quality, and was therefore worthless.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

“Life's a book filled on pages
Just awaiting to be written.
Some don't open it for ages,
Maybe afraid of being bitten.”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, How to Make a Book

“Writing is sharing. You share what you have. Great writers have more to share”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“Writing is magic happening on paper”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“If Laura was so prolific with poems, and in truth she was, then what was the problem with Megan’s request? Couldn’t Laura, with a little doing, keep stringing together line after line of words and construct, in time, a novel? It seemed logical, but there was the matter of finding an idea and sustaining it. Only fire could do that. The fire of rebellion.

Mario Vargas Llosa had not used the term “fire” exactly, but rather had discussed the presence of “seditious roots” that could “dynamite the world” the writer inhabited. He claimed that writing stories was an exercise in freedom and quarreling—out-and-out rebellion, whether or not the writer was conscious of it. And this rebellion, Vargas Llosa reminded his readers, was why the Spanish Inquisition had strictly censored works of fiction, prohibiting them for three hundred years in the American colonies.”
― L.L. Barkat, The Novelist

“When I'm writing, really writing, everything but breathing is an ignorable distraction.”
― Dennis R. Miller

“On Writing About Nora Hawks

I write about a female character to try, in vain, to understand two things: the purpose of life, and women.”
― Dennis R. Miller

“I am sorry, I am not a writer. I simply put my thoughts on paper. Those helped by them call them a book and me a writer. Those who are not helped call it rubbish and me a fool. Both have reason.”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“It wont do to say that the reader is too dumb or too lazy to keep pace with the train of thought. If the reader is lost, it's usually because the writer hasn't been careful enough”
― William Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

“How do you feel when you read stuff written by dead authors? A visit by a ghost?”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“Never write when you are not in the mood; when you are not feeling it. If the words do not flow freely, and come to you almost magically, then put it down and do not force yourself to write in the book, or it will reflect in your writing and it will be terribly obvious.”
― Wayne Hoss, A Sermon to Remember by Wayne Hoss: The Truth Shall Set You Free!

“How to write a book? Start writing, continue writing, finish writing.”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“Every book has its ancestors”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom