Quotes about beautiful-writing
Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
Dare to explore the beautiful places of the world.
Pablo Neruda - Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
Tonight I can write the saddest lines.To think that I do not have her. To feel that I have lost her.To hear the immense night, still more immense without her,And the verse falls to the snow like dew to the pasture.
Wallace Stegner - Crossing to Safety
If you could forget mortality... You could really believe that time is circular, and not linear and progressive as our culture is bent on proving. Seen in geological perspective, we are fossils in the making, to be buried and eventually exposed again for the puzzlement of creatures of later eras.
Lailah Gifty Akita -
Use your imagination to create your beautiful life.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
We must experience Heaven on earth;May your homes, surroundings and work places portray a safe clean environment.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
We are all beautiful creation of God.
Lailah Gifty Akita -
I am blessed.I am beautiful.I am great.
Kirsty Logan - The Gracekeepers
When people are cruel it's often said that they have no heart, only a cold space or lump of ice in their chest. This was never true of Avalon. She had no heart, everyone knew, but there was nothing cold about her. In her chest burned an enormous coal, white-hot, brighter than the North Star. North knew the truth about Avalon: she was made of fire, and she would burn them all.
Frances Hardinge - Fly by Night
But in the name of all that is holy, Mosca, of all the people you could have taken up with, why Eponymous Clent?" murmured Kohlrabi.Because I'd been hording words for years, buying them from peddlers and carving them secretly on bits of bark so I wouldn't forget them, and then he turned up using words like "epiphany" and "amaranth." Because I heard him talking in the marketplace, laying out sentences like a merchant rolling out rich silks. Because he made words and ideas dance like flames and so
Catherynne M. Valente - The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
The sun hitched up her trousers and soldiered on up into the sky. September squinted at it and wondered if the sun here was different than the sun in Nebraska. It seemed gentler, more golden, deeper. The shadows it cast seemed more profound. But September could not be sure. When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier. That does not mean that it is brighter and lovelier; it just means that sweet, kindly home suffers in comparison to tarted-up foreign places with all their jewels
Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
Love is the beauty of being.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
A blessed deed is saying hello with a smile to someone you meet on the street, in the shop, in the bus, in the office, in the church, in the holy places, in the mosque, at the park, at the school, at the university…..’ This is the greatest action of belonging to one another.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
All great people had critics but they still believe in the beauty of their dreams, fully persuaded to stay focused and determined for the realisationof their dreams.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
We can only live life when we understand life.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
The sacred gift of parenthood is inscribe in the universal words ‘Papa’ and ‘Mama’.
C.S. Harris - When Gods Die
She had been born with a different name, to a woman with laughing eyes and warmly whispered words of love who’d died degraded and afraid on a misty Irish morning.
Piper Payne -
The ending of your story all depends on the beginning of ours.
Alaric Hutchinson - Living Peace
Truth falls from the heavens like rain, gently carving many channels in the earth. Your truth may be different from my own, yet both are still true.
Patrick Ness - The Crane Wife
she is born in the breath of a cloud
Leonardo Donofrio - Old Country
Rome and New York were impressive, but they knew they were. They had the beauty of a vain woman who had squeezed herself into her favourite dress after hours of careful self worship. There was a raw, feral beauty about this landscape that was totally unselfconscious but no less real...There was no pomp or vainty here; this was an innocent, natural beauty, the best kind, like a woman first thing in the morning, lit up by the sun streaming through a window, who doesn't quite believe it when you te
Barbara Kingsolver - The Poisonwood Bible
a single-file army of ants biting a mammoth tree into uniform grains and hauling it down to the dark for their ravenous queen. and, in reply, a choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. this forest eats itself and lives forever.
Brian Morton - Breakable You
The river was so blue it seemed to be breathing.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
Life seeks for willing soul. You can be the one.
Nikki Rowe -
You don't need an entire garden bed, to notice the beauty of a flower.
Anuradha Bhattacharyya - One Word
In all my paintings, the animal is at the centre. Surrounding it are the things that define the animal. This is how beauty is characterized. You need to characterize beauty by association. I have learned to worship beauty. Not ordinary beauty but that in its stormiest nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Nature and Walking
Never miss an opportunity of noticing anything of beauty ...
Alison Croggon - The Naming
At these times, the things that troubled her seemed far away and unimportant: all that mattered was the hum of the bees and the chirp of birdsong, the way the sun gleamed on the edge of a blue wildflower, the distant bleat and clink of grazing goats.
Pat Conroy - The Prince of Tides
Together they spent their whole lives waiting for their luck to change, as though luck were some fabulous tide that would one day flood and consecrate the marshes of our island, christening us in the iridescent ointments of a charmed destiny.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
I see harmony in everything.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
Do not waste your time and life, searching for a job. Utilize your special skills to begin your own work.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
The beauty of existence is my joy.
Penelope Douglas - Rival
Fallon affected my body in weird ways. But only because she’s different, I told myself.
Penelope Douglas - Rival
But we were different now. I wanted only his pain, and judging from the girl he’d come home with last night, Madoc was still the same. A user.
Penelope Douglas - Rival
Sometimes I wore smiles but didn’t feel them. Sometimes I felt them and didn’t wear them. I didn’t want her to know how much I craved this. I bit my bottom lip.
Penelope Douglas - Rival
But that was two years ago. She wasn’t sexy to me anymore. Now she was lethal.
Tahereh Mafi - Ignite Me
I’m not sure. But there’s something about the darkness, the stillness of this hour, I think, that creates a language of its own. There’s a strange kind of freedom in the dark; a terrifying vulnerability we allow ourselves at exactly the wrong moment, tricked by the darkness into thinking it will keep our secrets. We forget that the blackness is not a blanket; we forget that the sun will soon rise. But in the moment, at least, we feel brave enough to say things we’d never say in the light.
Kat Howard -
Becoming hurts.
Curtis Tyrone Jones -
In love madly,traveling though thelife-raft's unravelingin a beautiful tragedy,but gladly i'm stillpaddling throughthe oceanof youranatomy.
Erich Maria Remarque - All Quiet on the Western Front
From the earth, from the air, sustaining forces pour into us--mostly from the earth. To no man does the earth mean so much as to the soldier. When he presses himself down upon her long and powerfully, when he buries his face and his limbs deep in her from the fear of death by shell-fire, then she is his only friend, his brother, his mother; he stifles his terror and his cries in her silence and her security; she shelters him and releases him fro ten seconds to live, to run, ten seconds of life;
John Burnside - A Summer of Drowning
All you have to do is choose the right day, the right weather, and you come upon a hidden place in the morning light where time stopped long before you were born
Lailah Gifty Akita -
Listen to your instinct. It is your greatest treasure. Your beauty in the outside reflects your inner beauty.
Robert Brault -
There are exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate.
Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse
Feelings that would not have disgraced a leader who, now that the snow has begun to fall and the mountain-top is covered in mist, knows that he must lay himself down and die before morning comes, stole upon him, paling the colour of his eyes, giving him, even in the two minutes of his turn on the terrace, the bleached look of withered old age. Yet he would not die lying down; he would find some crag of rock, and there, his eyes fixed on the storm, trying to the end to pierce the darkness, he wou
Libba Bray - The Diviners
The wind swoops over the tenements on Orchard Street, where some of those starry-eyed dreams have died and yet other dreams are being born into squalor and poverty, an uphill climb. It gives a slap to the laundry stretched on lines between tenements, over dirty, broken streets where, even at this hour, hungry children scour the bins for food. The wind has existed forever. It has seen much in this country of dreams and soap ads, old horrors and bloodshed. It has played mute witness to its burning
Jacqueline Francis - The Journal -
When he opened his eyes again, all words escaped him. He had seen her just a second ago and yet his eyes were unprepared for the beauty they saw. Her face was perfect.Her cheeks were still flushed from the excitement. It was the same face he could not wait to see every morning; the same cheeks he had kissed every day for the past four weeks. “You’re not good for me,” he whispered.
Tana French - Faithful Place
The closest I’d ever got to seeing a naked woman before was black and white cleavage, and then Rosie tossed her clothes in a corner just like they were getting in the way and spun around in the dim light of Number 16, palms up, luminous, laughing, almost close enough to touch. The thought still knocks the wind out of me. I was too young even to know what I wanted to do about her, I just knew nothing in the World, not the Mona Lisa walking through the Grand Canyon with the Holy Grail in one hand
Zora Neale Hurston - How It Feels To Be Colored Me
Sometimes it is the other way around. A white person is set down in our midst, but the contrast is just as sharp for me. For instance, when I sit in the drafty basement that is The New World Cabaret with a white person, my color comes. We enter chatting about any little nothing that we have in common and are seated by the jazz waiters. In the abrupt way that jazz orchestras have, this one plunges into a number. It loses no time in circumlocutions, but gets right down to business. It constricts t
Yukio Mishima -
Each instant brought them, more momentous than the explosion of Krakatoa. It was only that no one noticed. We are to accustomed to the absurdity of existence. The loss of a universe is not worth taking seriously.
Alison Croggon - The Naming
She ached: oh, how she ached. Her soul was like one big bruise.
Marie Rutkoski - The Winner's Crime
His dear face, dear to her, dearer still. how could she love his face more for its damage? What kind of person saw someone's suffering and felt her heart crack open even wider, even more sweetly than before? There was something wrong with her. It was wrong to want to touch a scar and call it beautiful.
Amy Harmon - The Bird and the Sword
I have all the power, but you will destroy me. “Only your walls, Lark.” He deepened the kiss, licking into my mouth as if he knew he’d find me there hiding from him.
Henry Miller - Tropic of Cancer
For the moment I can think of nothing— except that I am a sentient being stabbed by the miracle of these waters that reflect a forgotten world.
Suzanne Palmieri - The Witch of Belladonna Bay
I'm like the moon," he started, "the hidden side of the moon. Not seen because it don't want to be seen. Everyone knows ther's is shadow there, but no one looks. It's like that with me, Byrd. I'm part illuminated, part in shadow-and that part that shines is all you ever wanted to see. But it kept getting smaller, and now it's dark. I'm a new moon now, Byrd. All there is, is shadow. Can you still see me? Do you still love me?
Korina Mercado -
Stop letting unnecessary thoughts feed your mind. It's nugatory. Focus on your long-time goals and maximize your 86,400 seconds today.
Isaac Marion - Warm Bodies
I erupt from the dark, crushing tunnel into a flash of light and noise. A new kind of air surrounds me, dry and cold, as they wipe the last smears of home off my skin. I feel a sharp pain as they snip something, and suddenly I am less. I am no one but myself, tiny and feeble and utterly alone. I am lifted and swungthrough great heights across yawning distances, and given to Her. She wraps around me, so much bigger and softer than I ever imagined from inside,and I strain my eyes open. I see Her.
Jojo Moyes - Me Before You
There are normal hours, and then there are invalid hours, when time stalls and slips, when life -real life- seems to exist at one remove.
Jojo Moyes - Me Before You
There are normal hours, and then there are invalid hour, when time stalls and slips, when life -real life- seems to exist at one remove
Natalie Babbitt -
The shriek cut thinly though the drizzling dimness, holding for a long moment. At last it broadened and dropped to the old.
Lailah Gifty Akita -
Science rock: The pursuit of science, lead us to the beautiful places of the world.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
Life is a beautiful dream.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
The love for God is the love for nature.
Sarah Dessen - Dreamland
All we had was her room, her stories, and the quiet that settled in as we tried in vain to spread ourselves out and fill the space she'd left behind.
Evelyn Lielou Colon -
Is it not enough to dip your tongue into my soul and write poetry?
Catherynne M. Valente - Six-Gun Snow White
I do not believe any person is born knowing how to be human. Everyone has to learn their letters and everyone has to learn how to be alive.. . . .Maybe it's not a lesson so much as it's a magic trick. You can make a little girl into anything if you say the right words. Take her apart until all that's left is her red, red heart thumping against the world. Stitch her up again real good. Now, maybe you get a woman. If you're lucky. If that's what you were after. Just as easy to end up with a blackb
Lisa Cron - Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence
MYTH: Beautiful Writing Trumps AllREALITY: Storytelling Trumps Beautiful Writing, Every Time
Mercedes M. Yardley - Beautiful Sorrows
Maybe princes aren’t real,” Sada said. Her eyes were crafty and sad at the same time. “But monsters are.” She opened her mouth wide and showed Azhar the wildflowers sitting on her tongue.
Alison Croggon - The Riddle
The weather was clear and still, and the countless stars opened above them, seeming like brilliant cold fruits that Maerad could simply pick out of the sky.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. -
She said his music was tuned to the biggest music there ever was, the music of the stars.
Margaret Mahy -
Something is going to happen, Laura thought. She was going to be kissed. On one side of a kiss was childhood, sunshine,innocence, toys and, on the other, people embracing, darkness, passion and the admittance of a person who, no matter how loved, must always have a quality of otherness, not only to her confidence, but somehow inside her sealing skin.
Catherynne M. Valente - The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
I suppose you think you know what autumn looks like. Even if you live in the Los Angeles dreamed of by September’s schoolmates, you have surely seen postcards and photographs of the kind of autumn I mean. The trees go all red and blazing orange and gold, and wood fires burn at night so everything smells of crisp branches. The world rolls about delightedly in a heap of cider and candy and apples and pumpkins and cold stars rush by through wispy, ragged clouds, past a moon like a bony knee. You ha
Patrick Carman - The Dark Hills Divide
Twenty minutes into our walk away from the wall put us deep in a forest of fir, pine, cottonwood, and aspen trees. The lush forest floor was alive and danced with shadows cast from an endless parade of swaying trees. As we approached early evening it was cool and peaceful. The sound of the trees moving in the wind high above seemed like a friendly traveling companion, calling us farther and farther into the depths of the forest.
Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things
Their lives have a size and a shape now. Estha has his and Rahel hers.Edges, Borders, Boundaries, Brinks and Limits have appeared like a team of trolls on their separate horizons. Short creatures with long shadows, patrolling the Blurry End. Gentle half-moons have gathered under their eyes and they are as old as Ammu was when she died. Thirty-one. Not old.Not young.But a viable die-able age.
Chris Howard -
And I howled at that swarm and the crops and the sky, and the stars should have quit because there weren't no reason to be shining.