#write

If God didn't want me to cross boundaries, then he wouldn't have made me a writer. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#fearless #inspirational-authors #writers #inspirational

I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#writers-on-writing #inspirational

The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman to write long dialogues on large topics. ↗

— Richard Rorty

#handsome #inspired #large #little #long

You connect yourself to the viewer by by sharing something that is inside of you that connects with something inside of him. All you have as your guide is that you know what moves you. ↗

— Steven Brust

#writing #writing-inspiration #inspirational

My job as a poet, is not to succumb to despair but to find in words, an antidote for the emptiness of existence. ↗

— Michelle Geaney

#life #poets #writers #inspirational

Words can't describe... shouldn't be in a writer's vocabulary. ↗

— Mary M. Forbes

#inspirational #inspirational

I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces. ↗

— Harold Ross

#back #day #few #filled #his

As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels. ↗

— Bjork

#feels #how #human #i #i do

We let ourselves loose on that simple blank piece of paper, and our bodies spill. The terror, the love…embodying our stories page after page. In a sense, the pen was our tongue, it is how we delineate the world. ↗

— Coco J. Ginger

#jamie-weise #journaling #love #overcoming #pages

You read and write and sing and experience, thinking that one day these things will build the character you admire to live as. You love and lose and bleed best you can, to the extreme, hoping that one day the world will read you like the poem you want to be. ↗

— Charlotte Eriksson

#changing #growing-up #growth #journey #leaving