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I think each of us can, through our writing, discover our super power — Donald Miller

Words have the greatest power to inflict everlasting pain. Words have the greatest power to heal the soul. — Aneta Cruz

When you're writing about superpowers, you're writing about power. When you're writing about immortals, you're writing about mortality. — Margaret Stohl

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

Novel writing is World Building & Word Weaving (Neil Postman's terms). — J.M. Varner

Life is more than one genre'. — Juliette Power

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

The inspired words, which flush my mind, come from a higher power! — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

The power of fictitious writing, for good as well as for evil, is a thing which ought most seriously to be reflected upon. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

If my words are the only power I have, I intend to use them well. — Loretta Lost

The power of fiction is a great thing. But, after all, reality is just a little more important. — S.A. Tawks

Punctuation is a fabulous tool for controlling your reader - you even get to control where they breathe. That's what I call power! — Nicola Morgan

There's power in stories, though. That's all history is: the best tales. The ones that last. Might as well be mine. — Varric Tethras

The power of the delete key. — Buffy Andrews

Writing must always have intention because words have power. — Suheir Hammad

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

Good God! This man should be writing dime novels. — Josephus Daniels

A wise soul once declared that the ultimate power of the writer is that he has the choice of whom he wants to be co-opted by. — David Brooks

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

Qualities absolutely necessary for a historian: (1) Imagination. (2) Prejudice. (3) The power of writing your own biography at the same time. — Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

Imagination is a spark of a divine light. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Those in power write the history while those who suffer write the songs. — Frank Harte

I learned the enormous power of writing for yourself, especially now that people seem to be receptive to the fact that women can write. — Maya Rudolph

Imagination is manifest of thoughts by divine force. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

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

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

A reader's emotions can be sparked with few words. That's the power of dialogue. — Sol Stein

The power of the pen does not reside in the ink but in the character of the person doing the writing. — Aaron Fruh

Does anybody learn writing, or do they just touch someone who lets them see the power of the deleted word? — Richard Bach

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

The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life. — Rita Mae Brown

The joy of writing.
The power of preserving.
Revenge of a mortal hand. — Wislawa Szymborska

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

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

Style in painting is the same as in writing,-a power over materials, whether words or colors. — James Ellis

Imagination is a divine mind. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

For obviously the advantage for most writers is that no one sees them. The writer is invisible, which confers power. — Joyce Carol Oates

I didn't have that thing that Michael Bolton did; my star power - my charisma - was not a match to my writing ability. — Dan Hill

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

A word after a word after a word is power. — Margaret Atwood

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

When you imagine it, feel it, then write it - creation is inevitable. — T.F. Hodge

What I like about writing is the sense of godlike power it gives you. — Wilbur Smith

I think if you're writing about cricket, you're obviously writing about power, because cricket is such a loaded sport, much more so than soccer. — Joseph O'Neill

A thousand things to be written had I time: had I power. A very little writing uses up my capacity for writing. — Virginia Woolf

Novel writing is World Building & Word Weaving (Neil Postman's terms). — J.M. Varner

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

The power of classical music turns my words into fire. — A.D. Posey

You always had the power, my dear. You just had to learn it for yourself. Glinda the Good Witch — Susan Boles

The real power of comics is writing as you draw. — Chris Ware

No writer is a quiet reader, for their reading will speak of their writing. — Anthony Liccione

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

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

A strange thing, words. Once they're said, it's hard to imagine they're untrue. — Sharon Biggs Waller

Language is power ... Language can be used as a means of changing reality. — Adrienne Rich

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

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

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

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

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

Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead. — Sinclair Lewis

Writing has the power of permanence. — Bryant McGill

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

Books are readable drugs. — Carla H. Krueger

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

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

Wrote my way out of the hood ... thought my way out of poverty! Don't tell me that knowledge isn't power. Education changes everything. — Brandi L. Bates

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

Form the habit of writing your thoughts. The mechanical element assists the power of concentration. — T. Sharper Knowlson

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

A blank page has more power than a full page with blind thoughts. — Debasish Mridha

To write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real. — Augusto Roa Bastos

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

The power of the
journalist is great, but he is entitled neither to respect nor admiration because of
that power unless it is used aright. — Theodore Roosevelt

My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel
it is, before all, to make you see. — Joseph Conrad

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

all the words
all the poems
know
my warm, soft spots. — Sanober Khan

The power of the pen is landmark of life. — Lailah Gifty Akita