Quotes For Every Writer Who Has Ever Doubted The Power Behind Their Words

“These visions, these auditions, this process of driving words from one end of the universe to the other, it is delirium.”

— Gilles Deleuze, amazon.com

“Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his blood. Write with blood, and you will find that blood is spirit… He that writes with blood and proverbs does not want to be read, but learned by heart. In the mountains the shortest way is from peak to peak, but for that route yo…”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com

“In writing, the most enthralling moment is that of condensation, ellipsis, rarefaction. Building up increasingly dense nuclei around which light is disoriented, and thought too, since it lost the sense of its origin.”

— Jean Baudrillard, amazon.com

“Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.”

— Walt Whitman, en.wikipedia.org

“It is not that a poem or a painting or a palm tree or a person is ‘true,’ but rather that it ignites the desire for truth in us. It gives us an electric brightness, which leaves us prepared to undergo a giant labor.”

— Elaine Scarry, amazon.com

“Why be normal when you can be magical?”

— Nikita Gill, instagram.com

“People really do judge one another according to their use of language. Constantly.”

— David Foster Wallace, amazon.com

“You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.”

— Alan Watts, amazon.com

“As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation – either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.”

— Martin Luther King Jr., amazon.com

“We are sensitized by the books we read. And the more books we read, and the deeper their lessons sink into us, the more pairs of glasses we have. And those glasses enable us to see things we would have otherwise missed.”

— Alain de Botton, amazon.com

“No one ever gets talker's block. No one wakes up in the morning, discovers he has nothing to say and sits quietly, for days or weeks, until the muse hits, until the moment is right, until all the craziness in his life has died down. Why then, is writer's block endemic? The reason we don't get talker…”

— Seth Godin, sethgodin.typepad.com

“Your curiosity will lead you to whatever you're here for.”

— Oprah, forbes.com

“It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing — they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that m…”

— Stephen Fry, amazon.com

“The theory of linguistic relativity posits that language itself — the specific tongue that we happen to speak — shapes our thoughts and perceptions. Those who believe in linguistic determinism, the strictest version, might argue that a culture that lacks a term for a certain emotion — a particular s…”

— Emily Anthes, John Cassidy, newyorker.com

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”

— JK Rowling, amazon.com

“if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it.”

— Charles Bukowski, allpoetry.com

“Here’s my advice for anybody out there who is creative and scared: Shout until they fucking hear you. And then shout even louder.”

— Chris Gethard, youtube.com

“Have pity on those who are fearful of taking up a pen, or a paintbrush, or an instrument, or a tool because they are afraid that someone has already done so better than they could...”

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com

“Scare the world. Be exactly who you say you are and tell the truth.”

— Iain Cain Thomas, goodreads.com