“When people don’t express themselves, they die one piece at a time.”— Laurie Halse Anderson, amazon.comTagged: Why Words Matter, expression, Communication, Quote of the Moment
“Express the darkness with pen and paper. Write until you are empty of the negative thoughts. Write until you feel free from the chains of misery. Writing has been the best catharsis for me and it might work for you too.”— Mariel Alvarez, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Mental Health, Writing, expression, Creativity
“Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.”— Allen Ginsberg, c250.columbia.eduTagged: Poetry, expression, private, public
“Why are some things easier to write than say?”— Ally Condie, amazon.comTagged: Writing, expression, Words, Feelings
“Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.”— Natalie Goldberg, amazon.comTagged: Writing, Pain, Trauma, Healing, Honesty
“If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.”— Natalie Goldberg, amazon.comTagged: Fear, vulnerability, expression, Self-Expression, Honesty
“The difference between life and art is art is more bearable.”— Charles Bukowski, bukowski.netTagged: Art, Life, Healing, expression
“I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there’s something very satisfying about putting it into words.”— Carrie Fisher, avclub.comTagged: Writers, Writing, How to be a writer
“Advice? I don’t have advice. Stop aspiring and start writing. If you’re writing, you’re a writer. Write like you’re a goddamn death row inmate and the governor is out of the country and there’s no chance for a pardon. Write like you’re clinging to the edge of a cliff, white knuckles, on your last br…”— Alan Watts, twitter.comTagged: Writing, Being A Writer, Writers, Advice
“The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself. I suppose that it begins or does not begin in the cradle.”— Joan Didion, amazon.comTagged: Writing, Being A Writer
“I sat down and it just came out. Flew out. It's like this story has been sitting in my brain for years, taking up space.”— Amy Sherman-Palladino, Lorelai Gilmore, Lauren Graham, imdb.comTagged: Writing, Finding Your Voice, inspiration
“If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you must risk placing real emotion at the center of your work. Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Risk being unliked. Tell the truth as you und…”— Anne Lamott, amazon.comTagged: Stories, inspiration, Writing, Writers
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”— Ernest Hemingway, goodreads.comTagged: Writing, Writers, How to be a writer
“The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.comTagged: Truth, Writing, Creativity
“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.”— Anne Lamott, amazon.comTagged: Writing, On Writing, How to be a writer, Stories
“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”— Toni Morrison, books.google.comTagged: Books, Reading, Writing
“In my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway. Wasn't until that night when I was faced with all those lousy pages that I realized, really realized, what it was exactly that I am.”— Junot Dìaz, cnn.comTagged: Writing, Writers, Novels, Hope
“If you can do it for joy, you can do it forever.”— Stephen King, amazon.comTagged: Writing, Career, How to be a writer
“Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.”— J.K. Rowling, amazon.comTagged: Words, Writing, Injury, Healing, Pain
“A poem...begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”— Robert Frost, en.wikiquote.orgTagged: Poetry, poem, Writing, Words
“That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version.”— Chuck Palahniuk, barnesandnoble.comTagged: Writing, Words, Life, Living, Reflection
“The one thing you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can. The moment that you feel that just possibly you are walking down the street naked… That’s the moment you may be starting to get…”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.comTagged: Writing, drawing, Dancing, Passion
“Destruction leads to a very rough road, but it also breeds creation.”— Red Hot Chili Peppers, open.spotify.comTagged: Lyrics, Creativity, Art, Writing, Drugs
“Art is the place to safely explore all those other sides of you, because the side you want to bring home is the side that wants to be a good father and be a good husband and be a good son. In art we can be fucking nuts.”— Lin-Manuel Miranda, gq.comTagged: Art, characters, Exploring, Being human
“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.comTagged: Reality, Writing, Life