Great Writing Quotes by Poet Billy Marshall Stoneking

What monster sleeps in the deep of your story? You need a monster. Without a monster there is no story.

Originality has nothing to do with producing something “new” – it is about seeking the source, the primordial ground from which you draw and have always drawn your being. It comes about when one works from one’s origins, it is the dance of the eternal return… and is as ancient as the Dreamtime.

The story writes you as much as you write it. And the process of re-writing isn’t so much a quest to re-write the story as it is to re-write the writer.

We speak for those who cannot speak. We have a duty to tell the stories for those who do not have the advantages that we have to tell stories. We must not speak falsely.

Poetry is the struggle against the simplification, codification, and mummification of language, it serves as a constant redirect – moving us to the experience to which the words point.

From the writer’s perspective, audience is always an act of the imagination.

There’s a chasm between writing about yourself and writing about your personal life. A lot of young writers want to turn their lives into stories, into films, books, because they feel their lives are somehow significant. But really, it’s not their personal lives that matter, but their own, hard-fought-for ideas. Not just anybody’s ideas, but the ideas that they have paid for with their suffering and their sacrifices and their love of their fellow humans.

The ending of a story tells us what it means.

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My name is Rob Bignell. I’m an affordable, professional editor who runs Inventing Reality Editing Service, which meets the manuscript needs of writers both new and published. I also offer a variety of self-publishing services. During the past 15 years, I’ve helped more than 400 novelists and nonfiction authors obtain their publishing dreams at reasonable prices. I’m also the author of the Storytelling 101 writing guidebooks, four nonfiction hiking guidebook series, and the literary novel Windmill. Several of my short stories in the literary and science fiction genres also have been published.

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