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

Read these when you're wondering why all your scribbling is worth it in the end
Jane Drinkard
June 8, 2016
“Real honesty is frightening to most people.”
— Julie Bush, The Illusion of Honesty — Adventures In The Peen Trade
Tagged: Honesty
“Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.”
— Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
Tagged: Writing, Pain, Trauma, Healing, Honesty, expression, Self-Expression, vulnerability
“The difference between life and art is art is more bearable.”
— Charles Bukowski, Charles Bukowski, American Author
Tagged: Art, Life, Healing, expression
“Do you have the courage to bring forth the treasures that are hidden within you?”
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
Tagged: Treasure, Your Treasure, Encouraging, Encouragement, Your Dreams, Your Magic, Courage, Hidden Within You
“Imagining something is better than remembering something.”
— John Irving, The World According to Garp
Tagged: Imagination, Memories, Creativity, Life
“great writers are indecent people 
they live unfairly 
saving the best part for paper. 

 good human beings save the world 
so that bastards like me can keep creating art.”
— Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers At Last
Tagged: Writing, Writers, Saving The World, Morality, Good People, Bad People, Artists, Creatives, Creativity
“but writers, Garp knew, were just observers - good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.”
— John Irving, The World According to Garp
Tagged: Writers, humans, Observation, imitation
“if it doesn't come bursting out of you 
in spite of everything, 
don't do it.”
— Charles Bukowski, So You Want To Be A Writer
Tagged: Writing, Passion, Compulsion
“But to pay attention is to love everything.”
— Sarah Manguso, The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir
Tagged: Love, Life, Attention, Direction, one perfect sentence, Affirm Everything, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“I think if you feel like you were born to write, then you probably were.”
— Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl
Tagged: write, Destiny, Calling, self
“A story must be judged according to whether it makes sense. And 'making sense' must be here understood in its most direct meaning: to make sense is to enliven the senses. A story that makes sense is one that stirs the senses from their slumber, one that opens the eyes and the ears to their real surroundings, tuning the tongue to the actual tastes in the air and sending chills of recognition along the surface of the skin.”
— David Abram, The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
Tagged: Perception, senses, World, Life
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”
— Joan Didion, The White Album
Tagged: Stories, Writing, Life, purpose
“No one will understand you. It is not, ultimately, that important. What is important is that you understand you.”
— Matt Haig, The Humans
Tagged: Understanding, Misconceptions, Personality, Reflection, Self-awareness
“Why did people ask "What is it about?" as if a novel had to be about only one thing.”
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah (Ala Notable Books for Adults)
Tagged: Writing, Novels, Meaning, purpose
“She may have looked normal on the outside, but once you'd seen her handwriting you knew she was deliciously complicated inside.”
— Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot
Tagged: Love, Complexity, Womanhood, Relationships, Art
“You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories.”
— Garrison Keillor, Pontoon
Tagged: Age, Answers, Philosophy, Life, maturity, Understanding
“Reading is never a waste of time.”
— Roberto Bolaño, 2666
Tagged: Reading, Best Reading Quotes
“Why be normal
when you can be
magical? ”
— Nikita Gill
“You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.”
— Alan Watts, The Way of Zen
Tagged: Universe, Deep, Profound, humanity, humans