W Quotes
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“Writers and other artistic personalities historically attempted to describe art, what consist of, and inform us how a person creates art. If art is so difficult to describe and quantify, why do we feel compelled to attempt to describe the ineffable? At its core, does all art represent an attempt to communicate the unsayable? Is any discussion about art absurd? Is classifying a piece of writing as literature simply another form of elitism?”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Writers and other artists are mostly just historians, produced by nature to describe, decipher and thus historically represent the Universe.”
“Writers and painters alike are in the business of consulting their own imaginations, and stimulating the imaginations of others. Together, and separately, they celebrate the absolute mystery of otherness.”
“Writers and painters have a medium that can foster self-effacements. Actors haven't. An actor can't hide himself behind paper or canvas. If you're not there your art's not there. That's why we actors are often such self-centered objects.”
“Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.”
“Writers and reporters need to remind themselves they're not to be judged solely by the number of clicks or eyeballs on a given story, but there is this other value and this other important mission, and the key is balancing the two so that you stay alive long enough, whether you're an individual writer or whether you're a whole news organization, to keep doing what you're doing but that you don't get so driven by that that you forget that what you're supposed to be doing in a higher sense is informing people, is elevating the debate and not lowering it.”
“Writers and scholars have emerged in recent times (some familiar, some new) to continue to challenge the notion of a literature that encompasses the world - and reaffirms our existence in it. It is a multicultural vision that embraces and includes our shrinking universe; it is a multicultural vision that the white man fears and a vision that the rest of us can celebrate.”
“Writers and their book characters share a magical bond that makes them friends forever.”
“Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.”
Source: One Writer's Beginnings
“Writers are a fascinating breed, because there are so many kinds of them, they are made by so many circumstances, conditions, and mysteries, and there are so many ways for writing to be done.”
Source: Sons come and go, mothers hang in forever
“Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.”
Source: Conversations with John Steinbeck
“Writers are a loosely knit community - community is an overstated word. Writers don't see each other very much.”
“Writers are a product of where we come from but by looking at alternatives to the culture in which we live, we can find ways to change and hopefully improve it.”
“Writers are also sort of like vultures, but with fewer ethics.”
“Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.”
“Writers are always anxious, always on the run--from the telephone, from responsibilities, from the distractions of the world.”
“Writers are always at the edge of the inferno, and the fire is licking at our toes. Luckily, this turns us on!”
“Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better.”
“Writers are always diverse on the inside.”
“Writers are always envious, mean-minded, filled with rage and envyat other's good fortune. There is nothing like the failure of a close friend to cheer us up.”
“Writers are always selling somebody out.”
“Writers are archeologists of themselves.”
“Writers are as jealous as pigeons.”
“Writers are completely out of touch with reality.”
“Writers are completely out of touch with reality. Writers are crazy [people]. We create conflict - for a living. We do this all the time, sometimes on a weekly basis, we create horrible, incredible circumstances and then figure a way out of them. That's what we do.”
“Writers are creatures of habit, as are humans, but writers aren’t necessarily human, are they?”
“Writers are damned liars. Every single one of them.”
Source: A Gathering Light
“writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers.”
“Writers are diffident creatures -- they need encouragement.”
Source: An autobiography
“Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.”
Source: Fear of Fifty
“Writers are egotists. All artists are. They can’t be altruists and get their work done. And writers love to whine about the Solitude of the Author’s Life, and lock themselves into cork-lined rooms or droop around in bars in order to whine better. But although most writing is done in solitude, I believe that it is done, like all the arts, for an audience. That is to say, with an audience. All the arts are performance arts, only some of them are sneakier about it than others.”
“Writers are encouraged to "keep 'em laughing" and complain "with good humor" in order to "win" allies. The joke is always on ourselves.”
“Writers are engineers of human souls.”
“Writers are entirely egocentric. To them, few things in their lives have meaning or importance unless they give promise of serving some creative purpose.”
Source: Fifty Days of Solitude: A Memoir
“Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.”
“Writers are extremely important people in a country, whether or not the country knows it. The multiple truths about a people are revealed by that people's artists--that is what the artists are for.”
Source: The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings
“Writers are first and foremost observers. We lose ourselves in the watching and then the telling of the world we find. Often we feel on the fringes, in the margins of life. And that's where we belong. What you are a part of, you cannot observe.”
Source: Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You
“Writers are fortunate in that they are able to treat their neurosis every day by writing and as soon as the writer is blocked—this is catastrophic because the writer will start to go to pieces.”
Source: The Writer and Psychoanalysis
“Writers are frequently asked why they wrote their first book. A more interesting answer might come from asking them why they wrote their second one.”
“Writers are funny about reviews: when they get a good one they ignore it-- but when they get a bad review they never forget it. Every writer I know is the same way: you get a hundred good reviews, and one bad, andyou remember only the bad. For years, you go on and fantasize about the reviewer who didn't like your book; you imagine him as a jerk, a wife-beater, a real ogre. And, in the meantime, the reviewer has forgotten all about the whole thing. But, twenty years later, the writer still remembers that one bad review.”
“Writers are gardeners. Words are their blooms.”
“Writers are generally anonymous. It just that I think I got out there because I also act as well and put myself in my films.”
“Writers are given one great story to tell their story. I’m telling my story as a political document.”
“Writers are given the responsibility of sight. I think that the whole burden, responsibility and beauty of the gift forces us to construct our lives differently so that we are able to become vehicles to transcend, to encompass and articulate not only our own experience but the experiences of others.”
“Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.”
“Writers are great lovers. They fall in love with other writers. That's how they learn to write. They take on a writer, read everything by him or her, read it over again until they understand how the writer moves, pauses, and sees. That's what being a lover is: stepping out of yourself, stepping into someone else's skin.”
“Writers are greatly respected. The intelligent public is wonderfully patient with them, continues to read them, and endures disappointment after disappointment, waiting to hear from art what it does not hear from theology, philosophy, social theory, and what it cannot hear from pure science. Out of the struggle at the center has come an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.”
Source: There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction
“Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.”
“Writers are idiots with Underwoods.”
“Writers are idolized not because they love their fellow men, which is never a recommendation and in extreme instances leads to crucifixion, but because their self-love is in tune with current fears and desires, and in giving it expression they are speaking for an inarticulate multitude.”
Source: The progress of a biographer