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Writing Quotes by Ted Dekker
- I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view. It's informed by…
- I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.
- When I sit down to write a novel, I am exploring my own relationship with God, with the struggle between good and evil, my own…
- Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.
- All my books are very spiritual. I started out writing what was most natural to me, many years ago, which is religious, because I grew…
- For me, writing is an experience. It's an exercise in which I want to discover myself by taking my characters to the edges of human…
- I never write my stories as a wake-up call as such. I simply explore the kinds of situations that I find personally challenging by placing…
- I studied philosophy, religious studies, and English. My training was writing four full-length novels and hiring an editor to tear them apart. I had enough…
- My first seven novels were contemporary spiritual novels, my next nine had strong elements of fantasy, and now I'm writing thrillers, more as a choice…
- My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey…
- Whenever you write on a subject that questions the status quo, there are bound to be many who wrestle with the issues
- Live to discover, as long as discovery leads to a love that comes from the Creator... writing was the mirror to life.
- The four rules of writing... 1. Write to discover. 2. There is no greater discovery than love. 3. All love comes from the Creator. 4.…
- There’s different ways to be impacted by truth. One is to read the scriptures. Another is to read other works by other people who have…
More Writing Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
- A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. — Richard Bach
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. — Isaac Asimov
- Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. — Isaac Asimov