Write Here Write Now Quotes

“A blank page is no empty space. It is brimming with potential... It is a masterpiece in waiting -- yours.”
― AA Patawaran, Write Here Write Now: Standing at Attention Before My Imaginary Style Dictator

“And because the world is too big and time is too short and you only have one life to live, read!”
― A.A. Patawaran, Write Here Write Now: Standing at Attention Before My Imaginary Style Dictator

“Every story is a ride to some place and time other than here and now. Buried in an armchair, reclined on a couch, prostrate on your bed, or glued to your desk, you can go places and travel through time.”
― A.A. Patawaran, Write Here Write Now: Standing at Attention Before My Imaginary Style Dictator

“The only reason you can't write is because you don't.”
― AA Patawaran, Write Here Write Now: Standing at Attention Before My Imaginary Style Dictator

“A deadline gets a writer's work done done better and faster than any inspiration, if only because inspirations don't always come, but the deadline is always there.”
― AA Patawaran, Write Here Write Now: Standing at Attention Before My Imaginary Style Dictator

“Grammar to a writer is to a mountaineer a good pair of hiking boots or, more precisely, to a deep-sea diver an oxygen tank.”
― A.A. Patawaran, Write Here Write Now: Standing at Attention Before My Imaginary Style Dictator

“Write in pictures. With your words, let the reader see not letters, but images. Be specific about every detail, but don't describe it--make it happen on the page, if you were writing fiction, or make it happen over again, if you were writing about history or some recent event.”
― A.A. Patawaran, Write Here Write Now: Standing at Attention Before My Imaginary Style Dictator

“The heart is a repository of emotions--real, imagined, and invented, owned and borrowed, past, present, future--and there in your chest, operating at an average of 80 beats per minute at rest, is a heart that has stories to tell.”
― A.A. Patawaran, Write Here Write Now: Standing at Attention Before My Imaginary Style Dictator

“A world without adjectives would still have the sun rising and setting, the flowers blooming, the trees bearing fruits, the birds singing, and the bees stinging.”
― AA Patawaran, Write Here Write Now: Standing at Attention Before My Imaginary Style Dictator

“Words are music to the ears, alone or together, with or without melody.”
― A.A. Patawaran, Write Here Write Now: Standing at Attention Before My Imaginary Style Dictator

“Our body does get old, but our spirit, never. If we write well enough, we might even live forever.”
― AA Patawaran, Write Here Write Now: Standing at Attention Before My Imaginary Style Dictator

“Sound gives life to our words just as well as the images they conjure up and the sound is there, whether or not we read them aloud.”
― A.A. Patawaran, Write Here Write Now: Standing at Attention Before My Imaginary Style Dictator