W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Write 10 times: 'Fear is my friend. Fear is the energy to do my best in a new situation.' You don't have to believe it; just write it.”
“Write 100 things that you love about your partner. It's another way of keeping yourself in check. It's hard to do.”
“Write 1000 words a day. That's only about four pages, but force yourself to do it. Put your finger down your throat and throw up. That's what writing's all about.”
“Write a book worth reading or live a life worth writing”
“Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience or market. It may well have vanished by the time your book's ready.”
“Write a complaint letter. Then answer it.”
Source: Bounce Back!: How to Thrive in the Face of Adversity
“Write a daily gratitude.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Write a diary, imagining that you are trying to make an old person jealous.”
Source: Submarine
“Write a letter to your loved one. I believe that you will write for hours and write about anything and everything that comes to mind.
And now write a congratulatory message to your loved one, but only with two sentences. Now you have stopped. You know which sentences to write, but you can't decide which two to choose from the hundred you want.
Business email is just that; the struggle of choosing between what you want to write and what you think the other person wants to read.”
Source: I communicate, Therefore, I sell: “Communication is the most stable currency because it never loses its value.”
“Write a letter to your vigilante super-hero within and tell them what you want them to do.
Then, throw it up and hope it manifests. Then, remember, provisions take on many forms and it could be the reason you don't have a vigilante super-hero.
Vengeance is mine, says the lord.”
“Write a list of ways that you have benefited from being married to your spouse. Then write a list of your spouse's positive patterns and qualities. Keep adding to the lists and reread them frequently.”
“Write a little every day, without hope, without despair.”
“Write a little. Read a little. Dick around on the internet. Post something to Pinterest or Facebook. Text a friend. Write some more. Curse it because it's shit. Write some more. Repeat.”
“Write a living will. And become an organ donor!”
“Write a lot and hit the streets. A writer who doesn't keep up with what's out there ain't gonna be out there.”
“Write a lot. And finish what you write. Don't join writer's clubs and go sit around having coffee reading pieces of your manuscript to people. Write it. Finish it. I set those rules up years ago, and nothing's changed.”
“Write a lot. And I mean a ridiculous amount. You have to write so much that you don't mind throwing away and changing things that you've written - which is the second thing you have to do. A lot of young writers are very precious about their words. Don't be - you've got to be ready to burn stuff. You're not as good as you think you are, at least not yet. The more you write, the faster you'll write, and the less you'll mind throwing stuff out.”
“Write a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a novel, and get ready for the world to assume every word is true.”
Source: High Tide in Tucson
“Write a novel if you must, but think of money as an unlikely accident. Get your reward out of writing it, and try to be content with that.”
“Write a page a day. It will add up.”
“Write a page every single day, even if what you put on the page that day is no good - it's the only way to get better.”
“Write a paper promising salvation, make it a "structured" something or a "virtual" something, or "abstract," "distributed" or "higher-order" or "applicative" and you can almost be certain of having started a new cult.”
“Write a program in efficient way as you write for kernel scheduler”
“Write a short story every week. All fifty-two of them can't be horrible.”
“Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.”
“Write a smart joke and people want to talk about it and keep the dialogue going. Also, if you can make someone laugh, it's a pronouncement that they like you on some level.”
“Write a story
A story about yourself
A story about your life
Now, believe it
Now write another story, same subject
A better story
More interesting
Stronger characters.
Now, believe that.
Just keep writing
You have plenty of time”
Source: How to Be Happy
“Write a thousand words a day and in three years you'll be a writer!”
“Write a true, careless, slovenly impulsive, honest diary every day of your life.”
Source: If You Want to Write
“Write about it by day and dream about it by night.”
“Write about just one thing, I have said, and there is wisdom in this advice...And yet, there is wisdom also in William Sloanes contrary observation: Almost all effective writing above the level of the soup can turns out to be about quite a lot of things fused or laced or linked together.”
“Write about only three things: what you love, what you hate, and what you’re deeply conflicted about.”
“Write about small, self-contained incidents that are still vivid in your memory. If you remember them, it's because they contain a larger truth that your readers will recognize in their own lives. Think small and you'll wind up finding the big themes in your family saga.”
Source: Writing about Your Life: A Journey Into the Past
“Write about something you don't know. And don't be scared, ever.”
“Write about the beauties of life to create a beautiful society.”
“Write about the emotions you fear the most.”
“Write about the thing that frightens you most.”
“Write about the thing that scares you most or your most private confession and you'll never have a problem coming up with decent fiction.”
“Write about the truth. If you write about the truth, somebody's living that. Not just somebody, there's a lot of people.”
“Write about this man who, drop by drop, squeezes the slave's blood out of himself until he wakes one day to find the blood of a real human being--not a slave's--coursing through his veins.”
“Write about what disturbs you, particularly if it bothers no one else.”
Source: The Help
“Write about what makes you different.”
“Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.”
“Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else. (Notice this means that if you are interested only in writing you will never be a writer, because you will have nothing to write about...)”
“Write about what you don't know about what you know.”
“Write about what you know and care deeply about. When one puts one's self on paper - that is what is called good writing.”
“Write about what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?”
Source: Conversations with Raymond Carver
“Write about what you're afraid of.”
“Write about winter in the summer.”
Source: The Abundance
“Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy; describe Dublin as James Joyce did, from a desk in Paris. Willa Cather wrote her prairie novels in New York City; Mark Twain wrote Huckleberry Finn in Hartford, Connecticut. Recently, scholars learned that Walt Whitman rarely left his room.”
Source: The Abundance