Inspirational Writing Quotes

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. ~ Ben Franklin

On plenty of days the writer can write three or four pages, and on plenty of other days he concludes he must throw them away. ~ Annie Dillard

***Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer. ~ Barbara Kingsolver

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. ~ Elbert Hubbard

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master. ~ Ernest Hemingway

If writers stopped writing about what happened to them, then there would be a lot of empty pages. ~ Elaine Liner

*The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. ~ Anaïs Nin

***If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. ~ Toni Morrison

*Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. ~ William Wordsworth

**Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. ~ Anton Chekhov

***The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. ~ Mark Twain

Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very;" your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. ~ Mark Twain

*To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music the words make. ~ Truman Capote

*I'd rather be caught holding up a bank than stealing so much as a two-word phrase from another writer. ~ Jack Smith

**The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation. ~ Elias Canetti

*Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake. ~ E.L. Doctorow

The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

***Write your first draft with your heart. Re-write with your head. ~ From the movie Finding Forrester

Writing is both mask and unveiling. ~ E.B. White

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again. ~ Oscar Wilde

***Easy reading is damn hard writing. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote. ~ Mignon McLaughlin

A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to. ~ Tom Bissell

*If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves. ~Don Marquis

*A man will turn over half a library to make one book. ~ Samuel Johnson

*No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published. ~ Russell Lynes

***A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. ~ Thomas Mann

**An author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.~ Colette

* means I like the quote
** means that I can really relate to that quote
*** means that I really like AND can relate to that quote

My Quotes

‎-Songs are poetry with a beat.
-Everything's an illusion, and if it isn't, It's a mirage.
-They say a picture's worth a thousand words, but an amazing picture can't be explained.
-Sometimes i cant quite write my poetry to sound just right, so that whom ever reading can understand what my heart is whispering to my soul...
-Everything's an illusion, and if it isn't, It's a mirage.
-Writing from the heart is easy. It's what happens in between that's hard.
-Until you people realize what I'm capable of, you should enjoy the planet while it lasts...And yes, I knew the Mayans, and they knew that my lucky number is Twelve.
-I love dreams where I can fly. It makes my heart soar above creation when I think about it.
~ Anne M. Kelley

Summer

So less done.

Evil

Evil makes the world go 'round. Because it's always being chased by Good. It turns the world, and without one another, the world would stand still, either board and flat, or horrid and rough. We all know both sides of it, Good and Evil. Without them the world itself, would be, nothing.

First Bird of Morn

I hear the bird chirping and it makes my heart sing, it opens my eyes, and awakes my heart from its slumber, it is a truly marvelous thing.

That one song.

One consent song for eight hours hurts my brain... :(

Flying

I love dreams where I can fly. It makes my heart soar above creation when I think about it.
               - Anne M. Kelley

Upside Down

As the clouds smooth out over the line of the orange sky as they meet like the horizon. I watched from my dreary bedroom window as I imagine as though the clouds were the sea and where it met the orange sky was the impeccable line of which the horizon was. And the two were just simply turned upside down, and then I thought to myself, a world in which the two worlds of different day dreams meet. Oh the wonders that flashed through my mind, and all so much that happens.

2012

Until you people realize what I'm capable of, you should enjoy the planet while it lasts...And yes, I knew the Mayans, and they knew that my lucky number is Twelve.
               -Anne M. Kelley