Writing process 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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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…

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

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

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

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

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“A person writes similar to how a blind person uses brail. We grope along the palpable corridors of the mind’s organic texture…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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“We write, edit, and rewrite the story of our own life employing descriptive words, metaphors, and symbols. Our lives are full of…

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“Storytelling creates a healing serum. The thematic unguent of our personal story represents a fusion of the ineffable truths that each of…

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

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

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

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

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