"I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine."

Writing, Word, Power, Expression

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"I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine."

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"It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Writing, Understanding, Expression

"A writer's primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore's is to make cents."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Writing, Truth, Power, Wisdom, Life

"A writer's duty is to draw a picture that expresses more inner beauty, deeper anxiety, and more complex tragedy than a real character ever can."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Writing, Writer, Duty, Beauty, Anxiety

"Remember Stephen King's First Rule of Writers and Agents, learned by bitter personal experience: You don't need one until you're making enough for someone to steal ... and if you're making that much, you'll be able to take your pick of good agents."

Stephen King, American Author

Writing, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Today

"Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing."

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

Writing, Nothing

"Silence fell like a hammer made of feathers. It left holes in the shape of the sound of the sea."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Writing, Truth, Happiness, Today, Wisdom

"Write out of love. Your piece will finish itself."

A. D. Posey, American Poet

Writing, Love, Creativity, Art

"At the inauguration of each sentence, the writer commences with an optimistic sense of curiosity. Similar to an inquisitive explorer, a writer begins each thoughtful decree with an appreciative sense of the unknown and ends with a reverent regard for the unanswerable. Repeating this instigating act of discovery by placing a combination of sentences down on paper creates a unique verdict. The writer's compilation of pronouncements expresses their interpretation of life. Replicating this creative endeavor in the futile effort to say it all imitates the revolving mystery of life where physical reality and mysterious forces of nature operate upon humankind."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

Writing, Curiosity, Discovery, Life

"One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you're maybe a little bit ashamed of your short ones. This is like dressing up a household pet in evening clothes. The pet is embarrassed and the person who committed this act of premeditated cuteness should be even more embarrassed."

Stephen King, American Author

Writing, Simplicity, Style, Truth

"One of my rules is never explain. A writer is a lot like a magician, if you explain how the trick works then a lot of the magic turns mundane."

Laurell K. Hamilton, American Writer

Writing, Magic, Rules

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"Beauty is not caused. It is."

Beauty

"Wild Nights " Wild Nights!Were I with theeWild Nights should beOur luxury!Futile " the winds "To a heart in port "Done with the compass "Done with the chart!Rowing in Eden "Ah, the sea!Might I moor " Tonight "In thee!"

Romance

"The possible's slow fuse is lit by the Imagination."

Imagination

"There is a pain " so utter " It swallows substance up " Then covers the Abyss with Trance " So Memory can step Around " across " opon it " As one within a Swoon " Goes safely " where an open eye " Would drop Him " Bone by Bone."

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"Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality."

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"It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them."

"A writer's primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore's is to make cents."

"A writer's duty is to draw a picture that expresses more inner beauty, deeper anxiety, and more complex tragedy than a real character ever can."

"Remember Stephen King's First Rule of Writers and Agents, learned by bitter personal experience: You don't need one until you're making enough for someone to steal ... and if you're making that much, you'll be able to take your pick of good agents."

"Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing."

"Silence fell like a hammer made of feathers. It left holes in the shape of the sound of the sea."

"Write out of love. Your piece will finish itself."

"One of my rules is never explain. A writer is a lot like a magician, if you explain how the trick works then a lot of the magic turns mundane."

Explore more quotes by Emily Dickinson

"Beauty is not caused. It is."

"Wild Nights " Wild Nights!Were I with theeWild Nights should beOur luxury!Futile " the winds "To a heart in port "Done with the compass "Done with the chart!Rowing in Eden "Ah, the sea!Might I moor " Tonight "In thee!"

"The possible's slow fuse is lit by the Imagination."

"There is a pain " so utter " It swallows substance up " Then covers the Abyss with Trance " So Memory can step Around " across " opon it " As one within a Swoon " Goes safely " where an open eye " Would drop Him " Bone by Bone."

"Truth is such a rare thing it is delightful to tell it."

"Sunrise: day's great progenitor."

"Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell."

"Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat."

"The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience."

"Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality."