Writer Quotes by 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

“Sentence making is an act of questing into unexplored regions, probing the anarchy of daylight, and exploring the troubling confusion and turmoil…

— 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

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

— 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

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

— 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

“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

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

— 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

“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

“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 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

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

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Narrative nonfiction is an act of conception and construction; it is formation of a personal legend from the mist of memory using…

— 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,…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Writing is an exhausting and demoralizing task that destroys human conceits. Writing an elongated series of personal essay opens a person’s mind…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“This scroll is my personal obituary, a journal that documents my time toiling on this rocky orb. I labored to say who…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Personal essay writing that incites the mind and instigates personal growth involves examination and re-examination, a process of noticing and reflecting upon…

— 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

“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

“All writers are demonic dreamers. Writing is an act of sharing experiences and offering of an individualistic perspective of our private attitudes…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“The writer’s obsessions are twofold. First, communicate their thoughts onto paper with a great degree of precision in order accurately to express…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Critical personal writing enables the author to penetrate mental falsities that imprison him or her in fearfulness, bitterness, and jealously and encompass…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Personal essay writing is analogous to undertaking a vision quest, a potential turning point in life taken to discover intimate personal truths,…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“All experiences change us and personal writing is one of the most powerful agencies of change. The person who wrote these personal…

— 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

“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

“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

“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

“A person whom works exclusively for money places a price tag on his or her soul. A person whom labors to attain…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“A writer must develop a representative voice. A writing voice is reflective of the sum total of his or her cognitive, physical,…

— Kilroy J. Oldster