Writers-on-writing Quotes by 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

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

— 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

“Every act of art is a good faith attempt to arrest time – the motion of life – and make contact with…

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

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“All honest effort produces lessons. We must embrace every type of learning, even failure.”

— 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

“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

“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

“Each of us, along with our ancestors, inhabits the same cosmos. When we tell stories, we enter the stream of human consciousness;…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Memory and imagination allow us to enter the womb of creation, devise the lens through which we translate our surroundings, and create…

— 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

“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

“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

“Stories trace their roots to impassioned human interactions with the world. I always sense a storyline as an emotional yearning embedded in…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“A writer’s voice emanates from their interest and compulsions that absorbs them completely. Only by fully committing himself or herself to a…

— 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 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

“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

“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

“Storytelling gives form to the metal dialogue of the mind and in doing so, reveals our self-fiction. Memory and imagination fills part…

— 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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

— 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

“All forms of art must contribute to the discursive dialogue regarding the composition of the malleable human condition.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Words are action, and sentences represent a person’s mental action and aspirations.”

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

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Whenever we share a personal story with other people, we provide an enchanting testament that illustrates the distinctive tinting of our estranged…

— 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

“Autobiographical writing acts as a timeless testament to each person’s epic record of adventure, heartache, road to perdition, and achievement of a…

— Kilroy J. Oldster