W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it.”
“Write something worth reading and your voice will be heard.”
“Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.”
Source: Conversations with Gore Vidal
“Write stories about your life. The difficulties you have faced, all your faults and fears. Write them for yourself, write them to understand yourself fully.”
“Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Don't worry about appearing sentimental. Worry about being unavailable; worry about being absent or fraudulent.”
“Write that dream down, then set out to build yourself and your character to attract the kind of results you want.”
“Write the best book you possibly can, then dedicate yourself to getting people to read it.”
“Write the best story that you can and write it as straight as you can.”
Source: Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition
“Write the 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 the book you want to read”
Source: Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
“Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.”
“Write the book you'd want to read.”
“Write the book you've always wanted to read, but can't find on the shelf.”
“Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.”
“Write the masterpiece that has not been written.
Sing the masterpiece that has not been sung.
Paint the masterpiece that has not been painted.
Create the masterpiece that has not been created.”
“Write the music your inside-you needs your outside-you to hear.”
“Write the poem only you can write.”
“Write the story that only you can write.”
“Write the story that you were always afraid to tell. I swear to you that there is magic in it, and if you show yourself naked for me, I'll be naked for you. It will be our covenant.”
Source: Skin: Talking About Sex, Class, and Literature
“Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.”
“Write the unpublishable.. .and then publish it.”
“Write the way you talk. Naturally.”
Source: The Unpublished David Ogilvy
“Write the words on your heart.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Write there. In the weak spot of impossibility.”
“Write this down: My life is full of unlimited possibilities.”
“Write this: Since my boy is the coach, I'm going to try out for the Dolphins next year. Tight end.”
“Write til your fingers bleed.”
“Write till your ink be dry, and with your tears
Moist it again, and frame some feeling line
That may discover such integrity.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“Write to amuse? What an appalling suggestion! I write to make people anxious and miserable and to worsen their indigestion.”
“Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.”
Source: The Little Package: Pages on Literature and Landscape from a Traveling Bookman's Life
“Write to exhaustion so that you can no longer manage to avoid writing the truth.”
“Write to me and don't be so lazy. Otherwise I shall have to give you a thrashing. What fun! I'll break your head.”
“Write to me frequently & the longest letters possible; never mind whether you have facts or no to communicate; fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
Source: The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth: Volume VIII. A Supplement of New Letters
“Write to me only once a week, so that your letter arrives on Sunday — for I cannot endure your daily letters, I am incapable of enduring them. For instance, I answer one of your letters, then lie in bed in apparent calm, but my heart beats through my entire body and is conscious only of you. I belong to you”
“Write to one person, not a million.”
“Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.”
Source: Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction
“Write to Please Yourself. When You write to Please Others You end up Pleasing No one.”
“Write to register history, and name each thing. Write what should not be forgotten.”
Source: Paths of Resistance: The Art and Craft of the Political Novel
“Write to save yourself ... and someday you'll write because you've been saved.
You will feel terrible shame for this. Let your humility grow larger than your shame.”
Source: Fugitive Pieces
“Write to save yourself,’ Athos said, ‘and someday you’ll write because you’ve been saved.”
Source: Fugitive Pieces
“Write to Say something,
Say to Make something,
Make to Be something.”
“Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.”
Source: Festus: a poem
“Write to your fear.”
“Write to your heart’s content and by all means, have fun with your creation. It’s your moment to do absolutely anything within those pages.”
“Write to your newspaper. Call your Member of Congress. Email President Obama. Speak out for a cleaner, more stable future for all of us.”
“Write to your reader. Market to your book buyer.”
“Write today's worries in sand. Chisel yesterday's victories in stone.”
“Write until somebody responds.”
“Write until you can write.”
“Write until your fingers break. It may be the cure for everything.”