Writing From The Heart Quotes:

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Life, Wisdom, Communication, Writing From The Heart

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

- William Wordsworth

source: William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth, Ernest De Selincourt, Alan G. Hill, Chester Linn Shaver (1967). “The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth: Volume VIII. A Supplement of New Letters”, p.51, Oxford University Press on Demand

topic: Life, Beauty, Beautiful, Inspiration And Creativity, Writing Workshop

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Leadership, Incomplete Knowledge, Fine Arts

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

- E. L. Doctorow

topic: Nature, Rain, Writing, Inspiration To Write, Great Writing

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

- T. S. Eliot

source: T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.1250, Faber & Faber

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Fear None, Courage To Change

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

- William Makepeace Thackeray

source: William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Henry Esmond: And Lovel the Widower”, p.106

topic: Inspiring, Lying, Writing, Writing From The Heart

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

- Scott Adams

source: Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.438, Penguin

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Fine Arts, Creativeness

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

- Jack London

source: Jack London (2015). “Jack London on Adventure: Words of Wisdom from an Expert Adventurer”, p.5, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

topic: Funny, Witty, Life Changing, Creativeness, Creative People

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

- Sidney Sheldon

topic: Night, People, Up All Night, Writing From The Heart

Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it's about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well. It's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.

- Stephen King

topic: Get Well, Writing, Making Friends, Creative Writing, Great Writing

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.

- Sidney Sheldon

source: "Sidney Sheldon's guide to success", www.cnn.com. October 19, 2000.

topic: Book, Sleep, Writing, Writing From The Heart

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

- Ray Bradbury

topic: Thinking Of You, Writing, Creativity, Amazing Things, Creative People

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

- Linus Pauling

topic: Inspiring, Education, Business, Inspiration To Write, Logical Ideas

Being popular is the most important thing in the world!

- Homer

topic: Important, World, Being Popular, Baseball Games, Complicated World

Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Book, Writing, Abandoned, Writing From The Heart, Book Writing

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.

- Raymond Chandler

source: Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.216, Univ of California Press

topic: Writing, Mean, Pushing, Creative Writing, Writers And Writing

I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.

- Isaac Asimov

topic: Life, Writing, Breathe, Inspiration To Write, Writing By Writers

Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.

- P. G. Wodehouse

topic: Congratulations, Writing, Winning, Writing By Writers, Writing From The Heart

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

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

topic: Hero, Book, Reading, Novel Writing, Writing Advice

Family is the most important thing in the world.

- Princess Diana

topic: Inspirational, Family, Important, Complicated World, Happy Family

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.

- Gerry Beckley

topic: Song, Writing, Heart, Writing From The Heart

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.

- Matt Smith

source: Source: www.angelicwarlord.com

topic: Writing, Heart, Trying, Copycats, Writing From The Heart

[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.

- Jude Law

source: "#ManCrushMonday: Jude Law". Interview with Romy Oltuski, www.harpersbazaar.com. March 14, 2016.

topic: Book, Writing, Heart, Writing From The Heart