W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.”
“Writers Are Insane. For months we are lone wolves locked in our caves. Then overnight we become publicity hounds. It's a schizophrenic business.”
“Writers are interested in a diverse range of subjects, but prefer to move from field to field to satisfy intellectual curiosity, rather than devote an entire working life to one particular discipline.”
Source: Careers for Writers & Others Who Have a Way with Words
“Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.”
Source: Conversations with Lillian Hellman
“Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost?”
“Writers are liars my dear, surely you know that by now?”
“Writers are like eremites or anchorites - natural-born eremites or anchorites - who seem puzzled as to why they went up the pole or into the cave in the first place.”
Source: Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals
“Writers are like onions, layers upon layers upon layers.”
Source: The Quiet Kill
“Writers are like supreme beings. We can create worlds in a matter of days and we can destroy them just as fast.”
“Writers are lucky. Whatever the mood, no matter the longing, the writer can use his words to connect himself to any world he wishes to visit.”
Source: Bunny Bunny: Gilda Radner - A Sort of Love Story
“Writers are magicians. They write down words, and, if they're good, you believe that what they write is real, just as you believe a good magician has pulled the coins out of your ear, or made his assistant disappear.”
Source: Shoeless Joe
“Writers are magpies, and we collect details about people and we use them for fictional characters.”
“writers are makers, not just transmitters, of myths. Literature offers not only myths but counter-myths, just as life offers counter-experiences - experiences that confound what you thought you thought, or felt, or believed.”
“Writers are much better behaved nowadays, for a couple of reasons. Once upon a time nobody was thinking of a career, unless you lived in New York, so there wasn't as much pressure to present a respectable exterior. And secondly, there was no social media. So if you were found face down on the floor - people did do that quite a bit; usually men, but not always - or fell through plate glass windows or got into scrapes, it became a rumor, and rumors are hard to pin down.”
“Writers are not always right however, but then again, I've been on shows where the actors have complete control and change everything and it's terrible.”
“Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.”
“Writers are not meant for action.”
“Writers are not mere copyists of language; they are polishers, embellishers, perfecters. They spend hours getting the timing right so that what they write sounds completely unrehearsed.”
“Writers are nothing but beggars with a good line.”
Source: Absence of the Hero
“Writers are notorious for using any reason to keep from working: over-researching, retyping, going to meetings, waxing the floors - anything.”
Source: Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions
“Writers are notoriously unable to know about themselves. Faulkner thought 'The Fable' was his best novel. F. Scott Fitzgerald liked 'Tender Is the Night,' an experimental novel.”
“Writers are often given the gift of being spectacularly unhappy, so that they can record the full depth of feeling.”
“Writers are often the worst judges of what they have written.”
Source: Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales
“Writers are only rarely likable.”
“Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age”
“Writers are outsiders, and usually not by their own choosing. It’s why they’re writers. If they didn’t feel alienated from human experience, they wouldn’t feel so drawn to writing to make sense of their lives. It’s not the outsider’s facility for language that makes her a writer — many a student body president or homecoming queen can turn a phrase — but her ability to howl at the moon, on the page.”
“Writers are painful friends, and they are seldom friendly with others. They are insecure in the presence of other writers. Composers of certain kinds of music are the same--tormented and intolerant. Yet some arts not only make the artist social but make him depend upon sociability in order to succeed. Painting is one.”
Source: The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain
“Writers are rarely their own best critics, nor are critics.”
Source: A Clockwork Orange
“Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.”
Source: Selected Writings: 1927-1934
“Writers are said to have superstitions and little rituals. Readers have them too.”
“Writers are socially observant. We find people endlessly fascinating, and real life is mysterious. Sometimes it's hard to stop staring at the strut and squawk of my fellow man. They can be quite inspiring. Sometimes it's hard to stop talking to them to see what in the world they're thinking.”
“Writers are solitaries by vocation and necessity. I sometimes think the test is not so much talent, which is not as rare as people think, but purpose or vocation, which manifests in part as the ability to endure a lot of solitude and keep working. Before writers are writers they are readers, living in books, through books, in the lives of others that are also the heads of others, in that act that is so intimate and yet so alone.”
Source: The Faraway Nearby
“Writers are spies. Outsiders. Believers in the turning pages.”
Source: Spirits in the street
“Writers are storytellers. So are readers.”
“Writers are such phonies: they sometimes have wise insights but they don't live by them at all. That's what writers are like...you think they know something, but usually they are just messes.”
“Writers are the Custodians of Endless Possibilities.”
“Writers are the custodians of memory...”
Source: On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
“Writers are the custodians of memory, and that's what this chapter is about: how to leave some kind of record of your life and of the family you were born into.”
“Writers are the engineers of human souls.”
“Writers are the engineers of the human souls”
“Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.”
“Writers are the main landmarks of the past.”
“Writers are the moral purifiers of the culture. We may not be pure ourselves but we must tell the truth, which is a purifying act.”
Source: Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual
“Writers are the most pathetic souls when it comes to expressing their own feelings. Their personalities are as complex as the characters they weave.”
Source: The Girl on the Trail
“Writers are the most pathetic souls when it comes to expressing their personal feelings. Their personalities are as complex as the characters they have weaved. And in a curious way, without them really knowing it, writers are the sum total of the characters they created in their heads or in their writings. Yes, My Dear Tania; writers are capable of reflecting their characters, even though most of them are determined to be just like your ordinary guy next door.”
“Writers are the most terrible kleptomaniacs.”
“Writers are the most tormented of all the different categories of artists that are out there in the world.”
“Writers are there to write, not experience things. If you want to experience things, become a pirate or a Bookhunter. If you want to write, write. If you can't find the makings of a story inside yourself, you won't find them anywhere.”
“Writers are too neurotic to ever be happy.”
“Writers are too self-centered to be lonely.”