Criss Jami Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• I write about adversity, I praise adversity, not to be pessimistic, but rather to strengthen myself. The more familiar that you are with it, the less likely you are to have a breakdown when it occurs. You become more reflective of its purpose, you understand God's reason for it, and are then able to make the best of everything that you are handed. The darkness is only frightening after constant sunshine.

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  Fear, Writing, Adversity

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.110, Criss Jami

• There is a master way with words that cannot be learned but instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man exceptional hearing, a silent man, when given a piece of paper.

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  Writing, Men, Vision

• Authors can write stories without people assuming that they are autobiographies, but songwriters and poets are often considered to be the characters in their works. I like Michelangelo's vision, 'I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

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  Character, Angel, Writing

  Criss Jami (2011). “Salomé: In Every Inch in Every Mile”, p.158, Criss Jami

• Divinity for the sake of the simple-minded is beautiful. Those theological assertions you write, say, or live by that you later feel foolish about, it means God still lives in you enough to tell you that they were indeed foolish. By mistakes you know you are alive.

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  Beautiful, Mistake, Mean

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.99, Criss Jami

• Love is one of those topics that plenty of people try to write about but not enough try to do.

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  Writing, Love Is, People

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.22, Criss Jami

• It starts off like climbing a tree or solving a puzzle - poetry, if nothing else, is just fun to write. But deeper into each and every piece, you no longer hesitate to call it work. It's passion. A poet's sense of lyrical accomplishment is then his food and water, his means of survival.

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  Fun, Passion, Writing

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.58, Criss Jami

• When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect it. One reason I stay isolated more than the average person is to keep my creativity as fierce as possible. Being the odd one out may have its temporary disadvantages, but more importantly, it has its permanent advantages.

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  Writing, Creativity, Average

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.37, Criss Jami

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