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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
Life is more than one genre'.
— Juliette Power
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
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
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
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
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
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 joy of writing.
The power of preserving.
Revenge of a mortal hand. — Wislawa Szymborska
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
all the poems
know
my warm, soft spots. — Sanober Khan
The power of the pen is landmark of life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita