W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Writing about such things is a way of keeping the evil outside, away from me.”
“Writing about the 1950s has given me tremendous respect for my mother's generation.”
“Writing about the indignities of old age: the daunting stairway to the restaurant restroom, the benefits of a wheelchair in airports and its disadvantages at cocktail parties, giving the user what he described as a child's-eye view of the party and a crotch-level view of the guests. Dying is a matter of slapstick and pratfalls. The aging process is not gradual or gentle. It rushes up, pushes you over and runs off laughing. No one should grow old who isn't ready to appear ridiculous.”
“Writing about the self to spur intellectual growth or attain a teardrop of emotional salvation is akin to a fish attempting to construct a net that will capture itself.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Writing about the unholy is one way of writing about what is sacred.”
“Writing about unknown people means I spend a lot of time arguing to the reader about why it's worth knowing about them. That's challenging, but then the piece is pure discovery.”
“Writing about why you write is a funny business, like scratching what doesn't itch. Impulses are mysterious, and explaining them must be done with mirrors, like certain cunning slight-of-hand routines.”
“Writing about women's sexuality is very scary for me because I'm always afraid I'll get it wrong.”
“Writing about writing is a bit like talking about a conversation you are having; it tends to obscure desperation about where the next word is coming from.”
Source: A year in the dark: journal of a film critic, 1968-69
“Writing about you is such a pleasure
Love for your is hard to measure
You might not believe me although
But your memories are my treasure..”
“Writing about your community is difficult for any writer.”
“Writing about your past allows you to be released from its restrictions and limitations on your present life.”
“Writing across genres has made me more prolific. When one is fighting me or simply not cutting it, I turn to another.”
“Writing adds up to the conscience of our times.”
“Writing advice is not the product of an equation. "If you do X, then Y will occur" is false in this instance. "If you name a character John Q. Hymenbreaker, your book will be an instant bestseller" is crazy-talk. Writing advice is not about providing certifiable answers. It is about making suggestions.”
“Writing affirmations is a very dynamic technique because the written word has so much power over our minds. We are both writing and reading at the same time, so it’s like a double hit of energy.”
Source: Creative Visualization
“Writing allows a person to explore both physical reality and the internal workings of their mind. Writing places us in touch with our unconsciousness. Writing purposefully, applying the white heat of self-examination, can act to transform oneself. Writing allows a person with sufficient resolve to anneal their basic constitution, make their mind more flexible.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Writing allows for fictitious voices - the voices of persons unlike myself - that might otherwise be muted.”
“Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century.”
“Writing allows us to exploit the synergistic dynamics of the human brain including memory, the ability to engage in constructive research, visually scrutinize our private thoughts, and discuss and share an evolving linkwork of thoughts with other people.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Writing allows us to get the painful experiences out and find a framework in which to understand and live with them.”
Source: The Story You Need to Tell: Writing to Heal from Trauma, Illness, or Loss
“Writing allows you the unique and uncensored expression of whatever wants to be spoken.”
“Writing always means hiding something in such a way that it then is discovered; because the truth that can come from my pen is like a shard that has been chipped from a great boulder by a violent impact, then flung far away; because there is no certitude outside falsification.”
Source: If on a winter's night a traveler
“Writing always means hiding something in such a way that it then is discovered.”
Source: If on a winter's night a traveler
“Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn't win.”
“Writing an autobiography, usually thought of as a looking back, can just as well be a looking across or through, with the passing of time giving an X-ray quality to the eye.”
Source: The Complete Autobiography
“Writing an informative yet compact thriller is a lot like making maple sugar candy. You have to tap hundreds of trees - boil vats and vats of raw sap - evaporate the water - and keep boiling until you've distilled a tiny nugget that encapsulates the essence.”
“Writing an op-ed feels like I'm taking the SAT. It's so hard. It feels like homework. And if it feels like homework, it just doesn't get done.”
“Writing an opera and premiering in England, you could say I was going right into the eye of the storm and I came out successfully. A little tattered and bruised, but so what, I made it.”
“Writing an upbeat aphorism is a temptation, but decorum forbids.”
“Writing and acting are almost diametrically opposed in terms of being an actor it's in your interest to be in shape and to be healthy and to have a strong voice and to be flexible. As a writer you're sitting in this position for hours on end. You get up and you can't put your shoulder down. It's not a healthy existence so to speak and it's probably not healthy for the person that lives with you either, but you do the best you can.”
“Writing and art are my lovers”
“Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.”
“Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.”
“Writing and creating, those things come to me on their own. I feel like... you sort of summon them and it's like allowing the universe to enter your heart in an entirely different way to what it normally does. It's like inviting that energy of the universe to enter into your craft in a way where it has a meaning.”
“Writing and directing has always been my first passion. That's where the focus of my energy is.”
“Writing and directing just sort of fell into my lap.”
“Writing and directing your own film, for me, has been the best experience of my life.”
“Writing and drawing are very therapeutic, but they are also an excellent manifestation tool. I teach my clients to draw what they want, or to write a story about it to bring the manifestation forward into the present.”
Source: Wellness Wisdom
“Writing and giving voice to what I am feeling makes me happy. And supporting people in finding their voice, passion, outrage and resistance. There is nothing better than that.”
“Writing and learning and thinking are the same process.”
“Writing and making films aren't different things to me. Or maybe it has become so, now. Making film is a very long process and you have to be physically strong. The literary work is more mystical, because it's only the writer, and connected to something inside.”
“Writing and other efforts to produce an enduring piece of artwork is a gallant response to the prospect of death. Every person knows that they must die, and consequently people build elaborate symbolic defenses mechanism to shield themselves from knowledge of their impermanence. Every person possesses autonomy of the will, the ability to choose how to conduct their life. The freedom to act towards objects is ultimately useless; it provides a person with no sense of meaning and supplies no purpose to life because a mere collection of objects will not transcend their physical demise. An artist does not deny their impermanence but embraces the prospect of their death by laboring to create a monument of their existence that will survive their expiry.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Writing and performing are to me what water and movement are to sharks.”
“Writing and performing should deepen the meaning of words, should illuminate, transfix and transform.”
Source: remembered rapture: the writer at work
“Writing and photographing is not about copying reality and reproducing it perfectly. It's about showing it to others as you see it yourself.”
“Writing and producing the show is an intellectual process. Performing the show is far more athletic and intuitive, because you don't get to do it twice. It helps if you've done whatever the old saw is, 10,000 hours of it. Because I've done 10,000 hours of comedy, I have this database in my mind of what works and what doesn't work.”
“Writing and reading and speaking with specificity and skill has never seen more important to me than it does at this moment. It's what's between us and chaos.”
“Writing and reading are the only ways to find your voice. It won't magically burst forth in your poems the next time you sit down to write, or the next; but little by little, as you become aware of more choices and begin to make them -- consciously and unconsciously -- your style will develop.”
Source: The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry
“Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again. It's like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can't stop the raging storm, but singing can change the hearts and spirits of the people who are together on that ship.”
Source: Bird by Bird