Writing From The Heart Quotes

Being popular is the most important thing in the world!

Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.

The faster I write the better my output. If I’m going slow, I’m in trouble. It means I’m pushing the words instead of being pulled by them.

I am writing from the heart and having a fresh approach to things. We [Theocracy] are obviously not trying to musically re-invent the wheel here, and you can certainly hear our influences, but we also don’t sound like a copycat of any one band.

When people tell me I’ve kept them up all night, I feel like I’ve succeeded.

Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a book so when the reader gets to the end of the chapter, he or she must turn one more page.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

I think if you’re writing from the heart, very often, the subject matter will adjust as you age… but you try to write the best song you can possibly write. For us, we have the same basic elements that make up the America sound.

I write for the same reason I breathe – because if I didn’t, I would die.

You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

[Tom] Wolfe’s books offered a whole new world to step into, and whilst at times you could accuse him of being somewhat long-winded, he had an incredible quality of prose and a bravery of writing from the heart. He believed in being autobiographical at all times.

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader – not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.