write

They say that to escape reality is when you sleep, but when you sleep your sub conscious is in control of your dreams. For me to escape reality is when I read and write. When I read the world around me doesn't exist. The world in the story does and when I write I'm in control. Think of it as the author is the god of the world that they created. They set the characters fate.

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

As long as music survives, poetry will never die.

I write because that is what I am supposed to do.

I know it's difficult in the beginning. But, listen. If you have the impulse to write, do yourself a favor, do the world a favor, and write.

If you're frightened of the countless number of books in the library, you'll never write anything, until you close your eyes and hold the pen.

How do you write? You write, man, you write, that__ how_If you practice an art faithfully it will make you wise, and most writers can use a little wising up.

A writer writes knowing that nothing else will elicit the same kind of satisfaction and personal triumph as molding the written word into a reader's great experience.

For the real writers, every decision is either write or wrong.

Don__ know where to begin writing? Just throw up on paper.

At the end of your story, you get down to the purity of it all. It__ like distilling something.

Every day sings its own song.

I think every writer has a little freak in __m.

Life is not a popularity contest.

Every day is a journey.

Own your truth.

Storytelling keeps life going.

I like to think that Henry James said his classic line, "A writer is someone on whom nothing is lost," while looking for his glasses, and that they were on top of his head.