W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Writes have an island, a center of refuge, within themselves. It is the mind's anchorage, the soul's Great Good Place.”
“Writezine - the magazine by writers for writers.”
“Writhe and sway to music's pain searing with asides, caress death with a lover's touch for it shall be your bride.”
Source: Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics
“Writin songs is like a mystery. The most difficult thing to do is have a good idea. If you have a decent idea, the songs are the easy part. Actually having something to say is the hard part. If you get an idea for a song, then it pulls you along. There are just some ideas that you get that are really hard to edit out; it's hard to stop thinking about some bad ideas. So you just finish it and you end up putting it on a record.”
“Writing 'Book 1: The Maze of Bones' didn't feel much different than writing one of my other novels, but I thought it was very innovative to offer the website and trading card components as well for those readers who wanted to go more in depth with the Cahill experience.”
“Writing 'February' made me realize that breaking form is a way of letting the song be human.”
“Writing 'This Is Who I Am...' I wanted to write a song about where I'm at, that I have accepted where I have come to and I wanted my fans to be able to connect to it too. I want them to stand proud!”
“Writing 'We Are Never Getting Back Together' was one of the most hilarious experiences I have ever had in the studio because it just happened so naturally.”
“Writing ... is a profession that can only be learned by writing.”
Source: The prime of life
“Writing ... is practically the only activity a person can do that is not competitive.”
“Writing ... it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant.”
“writing = ass + chair”
“Writing [for the novelist] is not an activity, but a condition. That is why one simply can't resume the work when one has a job and a free half-day. Reading is the conveyance of this condition.”
“Writing [is] a form of prayer.”
“Writing a biography is a delicate—not a reckless—process, where the end result, if done properly, is simply the truth revealed. This delicate and intricate research process has never before been done for Bob Crane, a man with a story worth telling.”
Source: Bob Crane The Definitive Biography
“Writing a biography is not a love affair. It’s not a marriage. It’s a job, it’s a piece of work.”
“Writing a bit closer to the edge today.
Sometimes you just have to throw the truth all out there and annihilate all the bullshit.
One of the many reasons why we write.”
Source: R A W POEMS R.M. ENGELHARDT
“Writing a book about [Buckminster Fuller] in the sense of deciding how much to - how much biographically to gloss over and how much I can leave out is relatively easy as it is because the true believers already know everything. They know a lot of things that are not true and they know a lot of things that I thought were (and seems there's very good evidence not to believe) and therefore, my starting point was I think to tell his myth because that's what grabbed me.”
“Writing a book about Jeremy Corbyn, set out with two objectives. The first was simple: to explain how he became the leader of the Labour Party. I was disappointed - but not at all surprised - at the complete absence of intellectual curiosity on display. The second objective I had to try to capture for posterity the excitement and spirit of the first Corbyn campaign. Those moments when the impossible suddenly becomes possible are so powerful to those who experience them. I think it's politically valuable to relive such moments, to learn the lessons of what went right.”
“Writing a book about yourself is like therapy, and you go 'Oh My God, that's the reason that happened.' Writing about it, you're forced to really examine things.”
“Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.”
“Writing a book has about it some of the anxiety of telling a joke and having to wait several years to know whether or not it was funny.”
“Writing a book I have found to be like building a house. A man forms a plan, and collects materials.”
Source: An Account of Corsica: The Journal of a Tour to that Island : and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli
“Writing a book I have found to be like building a house. A man forms a plan, and collects materials. He thinks he has enough to raise a large and stately edifice; but after he has arranged, compacted and polished, his work turns out to be a very small performance. The authour however like the builder, knows how much labour his work has cost him; and therefore estimates it at a higher rate than other people think it deserves”
Source: The Journal of a Tour to Corsica and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli
“Writing a book is a bit like going on location for a movie. You're absent from your life, your family, and your friends. You're psychologically gone, so you might as well be physically gone.”
“Writing a book is a brilliant thing because once you've finished it, you've done it, and there's the potential for it to go on earning you a living without you doing any more work on it. It's absolutely ideal for an idler.”
“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.”
Source: A Collection of Essays
“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”
Source: A Collection of Essays
“Writing a book is a job, like any other. It requires research, analysis, testing, and entire days in front of a laptop, typing, reading, editing, proofreading, etc. If books were free, writers wouldn't have time to write, because they would be too busy, working on something else. It is hard to sacrifice your social life and weekends to write books when you need to keep a job or more at the same time. In this sense, when an author offers a book, he is disrespecting himself, insulting his past efforts to get him where he is now, and devaluing his own work. The idea that ebooks shouldn't cost more than a few dollars is actually already an underestimation of the value offered. And the idea that a person should get a book for free is contradictory to the purpose of obtaining value from the reading. That is why writers should never offer books and readers should always be willing to pay anything for what they want to read.”
“Writing a book is a Performance Art. The reader opens the book - the curtain. The characters show forth the story. The writer bows, and makes his exit. The reader remembers the performance. And his emotional response is locked in memory. In good books, this memory may last forever. The reader is transformed.”
“Writing a book is a tremendous experience. It pays off intellectually. It clarifies your thinking.
It builds credibility. It is a living engine of marketing and idea spreading, working every day
to deliver your message with authority.
You should write one.
Seth Godin”
Source: How the Fierce Handle Fear: Secrets to Succeeding in Challenging Times
“Writing a book is a tremendous experience. It pays off intellectually. It clarifies your thinking. It builds credibility. It is a living engine of marketing and idea spreading, working every day to deliver your message with authority. You should write one.”
“Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.”
“Writing a book is a way of thinking to me, the only way of thinking that I have found successful.”
“Writing a book is about me doing the work to get from the obsessive particular to something that reaches out of that in some meaningful way. It doesn't come easy to me. I really admire people who do it with acuity, but I don't, and for me it takes the process of working on a book for years to do any thinking that I feel accomplishes anything. I don't do it off the cuff well.”
“Writing a book is an adventure.”
Source: Winston Churchill, His Wit and Wisdom: Selections from His Works and Speeches
“Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.”
Source: Winston Churchill, His Wit and Wisdom: Selections from His Works and Speeches
“Writing a book is as different from digital curation as night and day. Digital curation is a series of split-second decisions: good/no good. It can even be done algorithmically. Writing is process-intensive activity.”
“Writing a book is both rewarding and inspiring The preparation, research and introduction of new chapters to an ever increasing text provides enormous excitement as one gets closer and closer to completion The culmination of all the hours of work combined with the emotional input in its creation cannot describe the sense of pride and accomplishment when it is finally published”
Source: African Sunsets: A Settlers' Story
“Writing a book is hard. It turns out, writing a second book is twice as hard.”
“Writing a book is incredibly pleasurable, but very solitary. You have total control, but sometimes that can drive you insane.”
“Writing a book is like an unknown abyss, every time. Every book is different. Contrary to what unpublished writers think, it's horrible to have a book out.”
“Writing a book is like loving someone. It can be very painful.”
“Writing a book is like masturbation, and making a movie is like an orgy.”
“Writing a book is like quilting. Once you start, keep on until it's finished.”
“Writing a book is like raising a child, the only difference is you don’t have the fucking part in writing a book.”
Source: LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
“Writing a book is like raising a child. They are conceived in private, and with hard labor, delivered in due time and given a name. Our own DNA is written all over them, and we pray their life will be a blessing to others.”
“Writing a book is like rearing children -- willpower has very little to do with it. If you have a little baby crying in the middle of the night, and if you depend only on willpower to get you out of bed to feed the baby, that baby will starve. You do it out of love.”
“Writing a book is like running a marathon. You need to be fit to do it, mentally and, as far as possible, physically.”
“writing a book is like running on a marathon, writing quotes is just like going out to the park”