Quotes starting with W Page 2018

“When I write, I make my memories tangible, and in this way I can get rid of them.”

“When I write, I never know the endings. What I think works in [my] stories is the fact that when I write, I really want to find out what is going on-I'm writing for myself as a reader. It's like when you dream a dream. I want to know what's behind the door. If I navigate, it's from a place that's totally intuitive.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Want Writing Facts Stories Dream Behinds Doors Reader Songwriting Intuitive Navigate

Author:Etgar Keret

“When I write, I never think of segments as chapters; I think of them as scenes. I always visualize them in my mind. Then I try to get the scene down on paper as closely as I can. That's the one thing that readers don't see - what you have in your mind. The reader can only see what you get on the page.”

Thinking Writing Trying Mind I Can One Thing Reader Scene Paper Pages Chapters

Author:Robert Cormier

“When I write, I picture the characters a certain way in my head, and they're not like any actor or actress. It's almost hard for me to let go of my ideas as to the way they look.”

Way Writing Looks Ideas Hard Character Certain Actors Letting Go Actresses

Author:Emily Giffin

“When I write, I put aside the heterosexual world to admit a muse that is a woman-loving-woman female.”

World Writing Female Muse

Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“When I write, I put one foot in front of the other. It's an act of faith. I just follow my heart.”

Writing Heart Feet Fronts My Heart

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“When I write, I solemnly visit myself.”

Writing

Author:Fernando Pessoa

“When I write, I speak with ghosts for years, and I see images that are a little bit out of focus. I see faces, but the faces change. At the moment that it's a real human being that's flesh and bone, it changes a character. It's much more precise and complex.”

Writing Years Humans Littles Real Moments Character Faces Speak Bits Human Beings Focus Little Bit Complexes Bones Flesh Ghost Precise Real Human

Author:Jaco Van Dormael

“When I write, I strain with every wizened fibre of my weathered frame to analyze every possible angle of any given subject.”

Writing Given Subjects Angle Strain Weathered

Author:Jim Goad

“When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess.”

Writing Mind Hair Twists Small Minds

Author:Maya Angelou

“When I write, I tend toward melancholy, and the few times that I've tried pure joy in music, it doesn't really work that well. The joy can be through catharsis. I think that's what I do well, and observation.”

Thinking Writing Wells Joy Pure Observation Melancholy Catharsis Pure Joy

Author:Michael Stipe

“When I write, I try to represent the ordinary person in the pew, which means that, ironically, I'm qualified to write about prayer by being unqualified!”

Writing Trying Mean Persons Prayer Ordinary Qualified Unqualified Ordinary Person

Author:Mo Yan

“When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.”

Thinking Writing Trying Book Feelings Scary

Author:R. L. Stine

“When I write, I use an Underwood #5 made in 1920. Someone gave me an electric typewriter, but there's no use pretending you can use machinery that thinks faster than you do. An electric typewriter is ready to go before I have anything to say.”

Thinking Writing Made Use Ready Machines Faster Pretending Electric Machinery Typewriters

Author:Andy Rooney

Source: Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit

“When I write, I usually follow my most inner voice, sometimes called stream of consciousness.”

Writing Sometimes Consciousness Inner Voice

Author:Lidija Dimkovska

“When I write, I wear earplugs. I don't want to be self-conscious. I don't want to be thinking about the fact that I'm thinking about it. I just want to be in it. It's one element of hypnosis.”

Thinking Want Writing Self Facts Elements Conscious Self Conscious Hypnosis

Author:Miranda July

“When I write, I'm sort of old-fashioned in the sense that I like to write something that I feel I could just perform alone, obviously, because I do that a lot in concert.”

Feels Writing Concerts Old Fashioned

Author:Sondre Lerche

“When I write, I'm still imagining a kid reading it on paper. I read e-books when I travel, but in general I still prefer holding an old-fashioned book in my hands. There's a special, tactile experience.”

Writing Stills Book Hands Kids Reading Special Paper Old Fashioned Tactile Reading For Kids

Author:Rick Riordan

“When I write, I'm writing as a fan, and trying to come up with songs that I would want to listen to.”

Want Writing Trying Song Fans Come Up

Author:Matt Smith

“When I write, it is always the melody that comes first, and it just happens to be the case that the most beautiful tunes are sad, and the lyrics follow the mood of the melody.”

Writing Firsts Happens Beautiful Cases Mood Tunes Melody

Author:Francoise Hardy

“When I write, it's intimate. I write in the car, and I don't even hear, like, ambulances driving past me because I'm in my car, listening to the music, writing. I record in an attic with no booth. It's not like I'm in the dark with candles, but it's like a house, a home, and I record like that. I think that plays into the music.”

Thinking Writing Home Past House Dark Car Listening Driving Intimate Candle

Author:Lupe Fiasco

“When I write, it's purging for me. It's a therapeutic process.”

Writing Process Therapeutic Purging

Author:Lisa Marie Presley

“When I write, my brain moves faster than my hands so I'm always trying to picture things.”

Writing Trying Hands Moving Brain Faster Always Trying

Author:John Lydon

“When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that has been filled with words.”

Writing Firsts Mean Has Beens Literature Pages Filled Blank Blank Pages

Author:Guillermo Cabrera Infante

“When I write, the story is always uppermost in my mind, and I feel that everything must be sacrificed to it. All elegant passages, all the curious details, all the so-called beautiful writing - if they are not truly relevant to what I am trying to say, then they have to go.”

Ifs Feels Writing Trying Mind Stories Beautiful Details Curious Passages Relevant Elegant Beautiful Writing

Author:Paul Auster

Source: Conversations with Paul Auster

“When I write, there are times -- not always -- when I hear John (Lennon) in my head, ... I'll think, OK, what would we have done here?, and I can hear him gripe or approve.”

Thinking Writing I Can Done Lennon

Author:Paul McCartney

“When I write, what I long for is not more realism or fiction but more courage. That's what I always find myself short on and what I have to struggle to achieve in order that the work might live.”

Writing Long Might Order Fiction Struggle Achieve Realism

Author:Junot Diaz

“When I wrote "Lead Me," I had no idea that God was preparing me to lead my family through a season of great adversity. It was only a month after Pieces of a Real Heart was released that my wife, Sarah, and I found out that our son had a severe, life-threatening heart defect.”

Heart Ideas Real Found Pieces Wife Son Months My Family Seasons Adversity My Wife No Idea Severe Preparing Threatening Defects Leading Me Real Heart

Author:Matt Hammitt

“When I wrote "Win," it only took about eight months, but eight months of sheer pain and suffering because every phrase that's in there - and there are about 130 specific linguistic recommendations - I had to test every one to make sure that it worked.”

Pain Suffering Winning Months Tests Eight Phrases Sheer Recommendations Pain And Suffering

Author:Frank Luntz

“When I wrote 'Barefoot in Paris,' I wanted to make simple recipes that you could make at home that tasted like French classics.”

Home Wanted Simple Paris Recipes Barefoot

Author:Ina Garten

“When I wrote 'Before The Dawn,' I made it quite clear that there are lots of people involved in my life who I can't talk about simply because I'd put them at risk.”

People Made I Can Clear Risk Involved Made It Dawn

Author:Gerry Adams

“When I wrote 'Dear Fatty,' I realised that sitting and writing alone is an absolute joy.”

Writing Joy Sitting Absolutes Dear Realised Fatty

Author:Dawn French

“When I wrote 'Fast Food My Way' in 2004, I hoped that my friends would prepare my recipes. Now, more people cook from that book than any other I've written in the past 30 years.”

People Way Years Book Past Written My Friends My Way Cooks Recipes Fast Food

Author:Jacques Pepin

“When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.”

Green Statements

Author:Barry McGuire

“When I wrote 'Kidulthood,' I didn't even know there was going to be a 'Kidulthood.' I just wanted to test myself to see if I could write a script.”

Ifs Knows Writing Wanted Tests Scripts If I Could

Author:Noel Clarke

“When I wrote 'Marley & Me,' I had a clear audience in mind. And it did not include children. I wrote my book for adults and assumed only adults, and possibly teenagers, would be drawn to it.”

Mind Children Book Would Be Audience Clear Adults Teenager Marley

Author:John Grogan

“When I wrote 'My Humps,' I said, 'This is the stupidest thing ever,' but in a good way. I always wondered what it must be like to be a girl, always gettin' pulled on. Maybe she's the smartest genius on the planet, but she's rackin' double Ds with a 26-inch waist and a big ol' ass and no one's ever gonna see her like that because that's the way the world is today.”

World Way Said Bigs Today Girl Planets Genius Ass Inches Good Way Stupidest

Author:will.i.am

“When I wrote 'The Alexandria Link,' I discovered that we are only aware of about 10 percent of the knowledge of the ancient world. In the ancient world, most of the knowledge was destroyed. Every emperor of China who came in wiped out everything that came before them, to the point that the country completely forgot its past.”

World Country Past Percent Ancient China Destroyed Links Emperor Ancient World Alexandria

Author:Steve Berry

“When I wrote 'The Giver,' it contained no so-called 'bad words.' It was set, after all, in a mythical, futuristic, and Utopian society. Not only was there no poverty, divorce, racism, sexism, pollution, or violence in the world of 'The Giver'; there was also careful attention paid to language: to its fluency, precision, and power.”

World Language Attention Poverty Violence Racism Paid Careful Divorce Sexism Pollution Giver Precision Utopian Futuristic Bad Word Fluency

Author:Lois Lowry

“When I wrote 'The Good Body,' I turned 40 and suddenly had this stomach. It seemed like the end of the world. Because I didn't value my body. I was constantly judging it, but I also didn't live in it.”

World Ends Body Values Judging Stomach End Of The World

Author:Eve Ensler

“When I wrote 'We Can Be Heroes,' I was just so excited about the concept of playing loads of characters, and a television series allows you to do that.”

Character Television Hero Concepts Series Excited Load

Author:Chris Lilley

“When I wrote 'We Were The Mulvaneys,' I was just old enough to look back upon my own family life and the lies of certain individuals close to me, with the detachment of time. I wanted to tell the truth about secrets: How much pain they give, yet how much relief, even happiness we may feel when at last the motive for secrecy has passed.”

Giving Feels Looks May Enough Wanted Pain Lasts Lying Certain Individual My Own Secret Motive Relief Telling The Truth Family Life Secrecy Detachment

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“When I wrote a long story about the retreat of sea ice, I made clear it could go the other way for a while, and that doesn't mean we don't know that a warmer world will have less sea ice. It just means there's a lot of variability and people can pay too much attention to the big swings in one direction or the other.”

People Knows World Way Mean Long Made Stories Bigs Pay Attention Clear Too Much Sea Ice Swings Retreat One Direction Long Story Variability

Author:Andrew Revkin

“When I wrote a song, it would have to be from something I was really excited about, or a melody that's been haunting me for weeks, or a message I wanted to convey lyrically. So it would have to start from something I felt very strongly about.”

Wanted Song Felt Week Messages Excited Melody Very Strong Haunting

Author:Brendon Urie

“When I wrote about the Spanish Civil War many years later, I used documents that I picked up when I was a child, as a lot hadn't been published (a lot more resources are available now).”

Years Children War Used Resources Available Civil War Documents Spanish Civil War

Author:Noam Chomsky

“When I wrote and got out of the way, writing did writing.” (p.90)”

Way Writing

Author:Natalie Goldberg

“When I wrote Chuky script, I was a student at UCLA, an undergraduate and my biggest aspiration for it was that I would get my foot in a door somewhere, that I would get an agent or something and it was just beyond my wildest dreams that this big-time producer, David Kirschner.”

Dream Bigs Doors Feet Students Scripts Producers Agents Aspiration Ucla Wildest Dreams Undergraduate

Author:David Kirschner

“When I wrote I took on the role of the despondent and difficult to understand person. Whereas in life, I was easy to understand, to the point of being simple-minded maybe.”

Persons Easy Difficult Simple Roles Despondent

Author:Billy Collins

“When I wrote LITERARY ALCHEMY 1… I was being literal, making money off art and intellectual property is actually alchemy. Instead of labor and trading time for money. My thoughts and stream of consciousness creates current of income or currency which is todays equivalent of gold.”

Writing Art Creating Alchemy

Author:Tim Storrs

“When I wrote Living in the Light, I wanted to share about how I live my own life and to encourage people to tap into their own inner wisdom.”

People Light Wanted My Own Share My Own Life

Author:Shakti Gawain

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