Writing Quotes by Kilroy J. Oldster

“Writing the story of their own life allows the author to parse their story into examinable segments while continuing to engage in…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Writing word after word represents a type of power, the sort of command that a person amasses slowly with thoughtful inquiry.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“A writer is not born but made through study and sheer willpower and ability to embrace beauty and agony.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Writing allows us to row the mind into new, unanticipated directions, change our stream of consciousness, and alter our very being.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“In a suspended psychic state, writers cull words and symbols from the mystical world of memory, imagination, and intuition.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“A writing tablet evidences the writer’s mind shadows, the dark twin that sketches the meandering of our conscious mind and taps into…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Writing is a form of intense thinking that takes a person on a journey into previously uncharted territory of the writer’s mind.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Writing is a disciplined, methodical, and systematic method that a person can logically employ to awaken dominant layers of consciousness.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“The principal theme of any autobiography revolves around the brushwork of self-transformation, the freeing of the self from the strictures of self-imposed…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Writing requires a prolong period of academic education supplemented by studiously scrutinizing society and its customs. Writers also analyze their own nature…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Language is the gateway of the mind and a bridge that connects us to other human beings. Language enables a person to…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Autobiographical writing stands as lasting memorial for enduring the travails of an earthly life. Writing is an apt technique to score our…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Writing enables a person to build a protective barrier shielding them from an adverse environment, scrutinize their circumstances, and discover how to…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Writing allows a person to explore both physical reality and the internal workings of their mind. Writing places us in touch with…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Writing is a solitary venture. Making use of a soundless void in the vortex of time the author enters the realm of…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Writing places a person in the community of those imaginative spirits whom preceded their birth. Writing also connects a person with the…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Writing is mental exercise and the preeminent method to train the mind to achieve a desirable state of mental quietude. Meditative writing,…

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“Writing is a pitched battle with the elusive self, a contest that resultant celebratory jubilee demonstrates the writer’s innate capacity to meld…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Writers use both their blood and their brains to explore the darkest recesses of their pooling self. Writing allows us to harness…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“All forms of writing are an act of conception; writing must lead to creation. Each time that we write, we begin again.…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Writing is an effort at truth telling, but each person’s version of truth and his or her means of conveying it are…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“A shaman and a writer each serve as their communities’ seers by engaging in extraordinary acts of conscientious study of the past…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“The story of what it means to be human is never complete. Every generation will produce its own share of comedies and…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Writers’ never-ending quest involves investigating genuineness while carving out narrative nonfiction. They must strive to reach great truths by recounting untold lies…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Unlike uplifting light fiction, narrative nonfiction’s trammeled territory provides no safe room where an unnerved writer can banish their unpleasant memories. Narrative…

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“The quality of any author’s effort at personal writing and thematic commentary hinges upon the author’s intrinsic limitations, personal vantage point, and…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Writing is one method for revising a person’s outlook on life and observing the world and one’s place therein from an altered…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Writing a personal essay or memoir addresses how a person thinks and behaves in the context of society’s prevailing moral and ethical…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Art is long. Life is short, but it deserves our attentive devotion. Embrace life. No person has a monopoly on wisdom. Despite…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Human beings innate complexities resist reduction into simple sentences and neat paragraphs. The stories that come nearest to expressing the ambivalent nature…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Life is a collection of memories and feelings. Mawkish sentimentally urges us to engage in artistic overtures, we yearn to share with…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Witnessing the panoply of beauty in all of nature takes us out of our shell of self-absorption and makes us realize that…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Attempting to express a person’s objective reality and subjective state of mind with the written word is an endless task because writing…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“All writers want to a place their mark upon human consciousness by creating a physical record of their distinctive thoughts and an…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“An author’s operating charter is to unearth embedded symbols that reflect complementary and inconsistent relationships of our collective assemblage, combine harmonizing and…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“The irony that all writers confront and must overcome is that the writer is afraid to commence, frightened to finish what is…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“By applying their observational abilities along with full appliance of their logic and creative powers, writers attempt to create mental maps to…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Writing is emblematic art form, which means that the book will never be any greater than the writer’s ability to perceive, classify,…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“The ultimate goal of any writer is to explore the lightest and darkest aspects of being. If a writer accomplishes this task,…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Literature supplements the lives of people and enables us to feel connected with the world. Shared stories blunt a sense of tragic…

— Kilroy J. Oldster