Brandi L. BatesWhen the door to my writing chamber gasps shut and the almost imperceptible sigh of a rose petal falls on my desk, I know that my muse is present.
About This Quote
I am a writer. When I feel the power of my muse, I feel the passion of it. When I hear her giggle, I know she is around. I hear her sigh of approval, and my world is complete.
Some Similar Quotes
- And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
- You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
- The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
- Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
- The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them -- words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But...
More Quotes By Brandi L. Bates
- In order to grow, I promise you'll have to let go of some habits. 10 times out of 10, they'll be the habits you're most in love with.
- David’s mouth dripped open slowly. He stood with his heels dug into my carpet, a dashed hope, a broken dream. No amount of money could top the priceless look that gathered on his face like an unmade bed. His eyebrows crumpled and furrowed like disheveled...
- All those other girls are cake... I'm Crème brûlée... Tiramisu, if you will. Just a few notches above.
- I will Basquiat the canvas of your body like a Broadway Junction wall…and Gordon Parks you for those dark midnights when your scent fades.
- You and those shot-glass eyes, deep swirling pools of 80-proof firewater, with the depth and profundity of Saturn’s spinning pulsars…