W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Write until your idea becomes reality.”
“Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.”
“Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.”
Source: Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life
“Write what haunts you. What keeps you up at night. What you are unable to get out of your mind. Sometimes they are the hardest things to write, but those are often the things that are worth investigating by you specifically. . .”
“Write what makes you laugh not what you think will make someone else laugh.”
“write what readers want to read, which isn’t necessarily what you want to write.”
“Write what should not be forgotten.”
Source: Paths of Resistance: The Art and Craft of the Political Novel
“Write what speaks to your soul.”
“Write what will stop your breath if you don’t write.”
“Write what you can't say. Feel what you can't explain.”
“Write what you care about and understand. Writers should never try to outguess the marketplace in search of a salable idea; the simple truth is that all good books will eventually find a publisher if the writer tries hard enough, and a central secret to writing a good book is to write on that people like you will enjoy.”
“Write what you care about, what interests and intrigues you.”
Source: Writing and Selling Your Mystery Novel
“Write what you care about.”
“Write what you care about. If you do that, you stand the best chance of doing your best writing.”
“Write, what you feel about. Feel, what you have written about.”
“Write what you feel. Write because of that need for expression.”
“Write what you know.”
Source: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
“Write what you know will always be excellent advice for those who ought not to write at all. Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!”
Source: The Essential Gore Vidal
“Write what you know. Every guide for the aspiring author advises this. Because I live in a long-settled rural place, I know certain things. I know the feel of a newborn lamb's damp, tight-curled fleece and the sharp sound a well-bucket chain makes as it scrapes on stone. But more than these material things, I know the feelings that flourish in small communities. And I know other kinds of emotional truths that I believe apply across the centuries.”
“Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.”
“Write what you know. Write what you don't know. But most of all, write what you'd rather not know.”
“Write what you know. Write what you want to know more about. Write what you're afraid to write about.”
“Write what you like, then imbue it with life and make it unique by blending in your own personal knowledge of life, friendship, relationships, sex, and work. Especially work. People love to read about work. God knows why, but they do.”
Source: On Writing
“Write what you like; there is no other rule.”
“Write what you love and love what you write.”
“Write what you love. Love will hold you through the hard times and hold the world during the good times.”
“Write what you need to write, not what is currently popular or what you think will sell.”
“Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!”
Source: The Essential Gore Vidal
“Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind.”
Source: Selected letters, 1940-1956
“Write what you want, everything else is gravy”
“Write what you want to read. So many people think they need to write a particular kind of book, or imitate a successful style, in order to be published. I've known people who felt they had to model their book on existing blockbusters, or write in a genre that's supposed to be "hot right now" in order to get agents and publishers interested. But if you're writing in a genre you don't like, or modeling yourself on a book you don't respect, it'll show through. You're your first, most important reader, so write the book that reader really wants to read.”
“Write what you want to read. The person you know best in this world is you. Listen to yourself. If you are excited by what you are writing, you have a much better chance of putting that excitement over to a reader.”
“Write what you want to write and would like to read, not for any invisible audience. Your readers will find you.”
Source: Two Dogs At The One Dog Inn
“Write what you would love to read. Finish what you begin to write. Your voice is uniquely yours and we are all waiting to hear it.”
“Write what you’re scared about.”
“Write what's up there." Sister Ignatius pointed at her temple. "As a great man once said, this is a secret garden. We've all got one of those." "Jesus?" "No, Bruce Springsteen.”
“Write whatever way you like. Fiction is made of words on a page; reality is made of something else. It doesn't matter how "real" your story is, or how "made up": what matters is its necessity.”
“Write whatever you like!”
“Write when you can't stop writing. Read when you stopped writing!”
“Write when you least feel like it,
Because that's when you write best.”
“Write whenever you can but choose a subject you know about and will want to work with for a few years or even longer...”
Source: Ticket to Ride
“Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.”
“Write while the heat is in you. The write who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience. To achieve something you've never achieved before, you must become someone you've never been before.”
“Write with abandon and no constraints for first draft. Cut brutally and save in separate files on second draft. Add conflict; don't be afraid to make your characters suffer. Read what you love. Write what you love. Love.”
“Write with courage, regardless of your skill.”
“write with honesty and don't worry about the feelings of others, because no matter what you say, they'll hate you anyway.”
“Write with nouns and verbs, not with adjectives and adverbs. The adjective hasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place.”
“Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.”
Source: On Writing
“Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. Your stuff starts out being just for you, in other words, but then it goes out. Once you know what the story is and get it right — as right as you can, anyway — it belongs to anyone who wants to read it. Or criticize it.”
Source: On Writing
“Write with the learned, pronounce with the vulgar.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack