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What power--what importance--lies in the blank lines of an open notebook. Go and fill yours. Then share. — Penny Kittle

I make you see things that aren't really there and you believe every word — Genesis Quihuis

If I were to choose between the power of writing a poem and the ecstasy of a poem unwritten, I would choose the ecstasy. It is better poetry. — Kahlil Gibran

When writing becomes too dominant, it gets leached of its own power. We spend more and more time writing, and we have less and less to write about. — Julia Cameron

I am a woman, and I am a Latina. Those are the things that make my writing distinctive. Those are the things that give my writing power. — Sandra Cisneros

I love and enjoy writing.
Writing is a form of daily communication.
It a communication to higher divine power. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A great book is a thing of mystery and beauty; it has the power to move you. — Neil Leckman

If you do everything in your power to avoid writing and still can't, then you must be a writer. — Fannie Flagg

Descriptions all fall flat and tame unless the Holy Ghost fills them with life and power — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

To withhold words is power. But to share our words with others, openly and honestly, is also power. — Terry Tempest Williams

After all, to love somebody is to give them the power to hurt you, and nobody can hurt you if you're the only one writing the script. — Donald Miller

Writers write for fame, wealth, power and the love of women. — Sigmund Freud

Expand your world. (Stories about wizards and spells) are very frequently about power relationships ... — Margaret Atwood

But what all these responses have in common is that they point to the decisive power of information and stories [ ... ] — Wes Moore

Wisdom comes with all we see, God writes His lessons in each flower, And ev'ry singing bird or bee Can teach us something of His power. — Maud Lindsay

Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers. — Brenda Ueland

People quote proverbs without realizing they're really in awe of the authority of their truth and the power of their expression ... — John Geddes

They go to Paris to learn how to make bombs and they come back having learned only how to write poetry, which they think is more explosive. — Rana Dasgupta

I write about power, that's my real subject - how you get it, what you do with it, how you abuse it. I'm equally wary of liberals and conservatives. — Rene Balcer

There's writing power in one word sentences and one sentence paragraphs. Wise authors use them. -Judith Briles — Judith Briles

Life has a vendetta against writers. It does everything in it's power to get in the way of our craft. Maybe it thinks we embellish too much? — Hannah Harding

What might happen if writing were a shared endeavor, meant t connect people instead of being hoarded as a tool of power and privilege. — Kathy MacMillan

People keep asking me ... How to instantly become a better writer? It's simple: Use "power words" and see for yourself. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

Nature herself seems, I say, to take the pen out of his hand, and to write for him with her own bare, sheer, penetrating power. — Matthew Arnold

It is important to take the seriousness out of things that do not deserve it. Take the seriousness out of it, and the thing loses its power. — S.A. Tawks

Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. The writer doubles and trebles the power of writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. — Victor Hugo

I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power. — Robert Harris

Day after day, week after week; writing great fiction takes time, emotion, skill and effort. — Carla H. Krueger

The vital power of an imaginative work demands a diversity within its unity; and the stronger the diversity the more massive the unity. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come. — Gilles Deleuze

I write poems for myself and I write poetry that gets torn apart and becomes songs. I have a lot of respect for words, the power of words. — Kurt Cobain

For me alone Don Quixote was born and I for him. His was the power of action, mine of writing. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

The brain is like a muscle; books are the diet and writing is the workout. — Stewart Stafford

Why certainly, words possess power. They do! But releasing their magic requires combining and arranging those words in the right order. — Richelle E. Goodrich

A writer's tragedy: to know all the words and nothing else. — Marty Rubin