Best Writing Quotes Ever

xxHelloLovelyxx
posted a quote
March 27, 2013 5:34pm UTC

Today in school,
someone asked me why I would voulantarily spend extra time writing. My response was:
"This world sucks, so I created my own."

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Hale_Storm18
posted a quote
March 15, 2013 7:34pm UTC

Reading a foreign language you're trying to learn: This is so easy! I understand so much of this
Trying to construct sentences in that language: What am I doing? Jesus take the wheel, where is Google Translate?

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sophsunflower12
posted a quote
March 26, 2013 5:40pm UTC

it's March. someone please enlighten me
as to why there's still snow on the ground.

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ThatsSoMeee
posted a quote
May 31, 2013 2:38pm UTC

There will come
a time
when I will stop writing.
I will stop writing about you and how we used to be.
I will stop writing about myself and how I feel.
I would run out of words to say
and my thoughts I can no longer gather.
It will be all about goodbyes.

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BlackButterflies
posted a quote
June 24, 2013 4:35am UTC

yes, a picture paints a thousand words,
but a thousand words can also paint a picture,
and that's why i write.

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BlackButterflies
posted a quote
March 11, 2013 12:36am UTC

they're throwaway phrases, aren't they?
"I just want to sleep forever!"
"I wish I was dead!"
"I wish I'd never been born!"
No one ever brings up what a huge difference there is between them.
Sleeping forever is peaceful. It is restful. It is slipping a bookmark into the chapter you're on, and then turning off the light and rolling over. It is hazy dreams and rustling sheets, it is waking up and knowing you can just curl up and go back to sleep.
Dying is an ending. Sometimes after a long denoument, a beautifully written ending, but sometimes it is just some angel's hands slamming your book shut and filing it away. There is no light, no darkness. There is just nothing.
Never being born is neither an ending nor a beginning. You are not ending, because you have not begun. You are not resting, because you have never known tiredness, or sadness, or pain. You have never been you. An empty book.

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celestialerror*
posted a quote
February 16, 2013 10:11am UTC

If a writer falls in love with you, you can never die.

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happiest*
posted a quote
November 2, 2013 4:51pm UTC

Before I start writing: This is a magnificent work of genius. I can see it sprawled open in my mind and it is perfect. All I need to do is write it down. After I open a blank document: I have two half-sentences and an emoticon. There is nothing else in my brain.

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sophsunflower12
posted a quote
April 30, 2013 7:05pm UTC

i hate reading a story with good
writing but a terrible plot almost as
much as i hate reading a story with
terrible writing but a good plot.

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glitter162*
posted a quote
May 17, 2013 7:17pm UTC

I could be writing the most boring
text ever, but the minute someone looks over my shoulder, that text becomes top secret.

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destabilise
posted a quote
September 30, 2013 9:45pm UTC

if you’re laying in bed
wrapped up in sheets
of miserable thought,
go to sleep
if thumbing through old messages
only causes your heart to ache
and long for something unattainable
erase them
if it hurts to keep
everything you’re feeling
bottled up inside
let it out
if you’re clinging onto someone
that doesn’t treat you like
you’re worth the world
let them go
because sometimes
we choose to believe
that things are only
indistinguishable shades of gray
when in reality,
life is more black and white
than it seems
if you’re unhappy
with the way
you are living your life
change it
— m.k.

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sophsunflower12
posted a quote
June 12, 2013 7:20pm UTC

“Not that smart. Not that hot. Not that funny. That’s me: I’m not that.”
-John Green

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sophsunflower12
posted a quote
February 22, 2013 8:28pm UTC

temporarily getting your phone taken away from your
possession and not being able to text anyone about it..

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sophsunflower12
posted a quote
June 16, 2013 8:10pm UTC

“Being in a relationship, that’s something you choose. Being in a friendship, that’s something you are.”
-John Green

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SuperNovaChic
posted a quote
April 3, 2014 9:40pm UTC

Using a thesaurus to make your writing sound more interesting is the most elderly ruse in the tome.

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fool's gold*
posted a quote
November 12, 2013 7:36pm UTC

you write so beautifully, the inside of your
MIND MUST BE A TERRIFYING PLACE. ♥

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br0kenwings
posted a quote
May 28, 2013 10:19pm UTC

I'm good with words.
I can write a story that makes people cry.
I can pull at people's heart-strings with a couple paragraphs.
I can create a whole other world that is realistic and engaging.
I can write out pieces with elaborate ideas and concepts.
But, I can't find the words to explain how I feel and who I am.

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sophsunflower12
posted a quote
April 10, 2013 7:29pm UTC

“You never get me. That’s the whole point.”
-John Green

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永久*
posted a quote
October 1, 2013 10:57am UTC

✎
Life is the art of writing,
without an eraser ♥
Format credit :faveformats

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sophsunflower12
posted a quote
March 10, 2013 5:12pm UTC

“He really was beautiful. I know boys aren’t supposed to be, but he was.”
-John Green

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