W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. 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: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
“Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.”
Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
“Writing and reading have always been my favorite things.”
Source: Love Me Do
“Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.”
Source: What are Masterpieces
“Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.”
“Writing and rewriting are the same thing to me. I don't believe what Allen Ginsberg said that "first thought, then - " I just don't believe that.”
“Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy of sorts, but to be honest, my marriage played a more important role in the acceptance of myself than performance has ever done.”
“Writing and telling are almost the same, the way I do it.”
“Writing and the hope of writing pulls me back from the edges of despair. I believe insanity and despair are at times one and the same.”
Source: remembered rapture: the writer at work
“Writing and theatre are two of my greatest passions in life.”
Source: Leo la Superstar!
“Writing and thinking is not economically sustainable.”
“Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.”
Source: Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961
“Writing and working with producers is like dating - it sounds strange to say that, but you have to test people out. You have to be like: 1) I like your music. 2) I like you, you're a good person. 3) Let's hang out and see if we can work together. And that is where music comes from.”
“Writing anything as an expert is really poisonous to the writing process, because you lose the quality of discovery.”
“Writing anything is a treason of sorts.”
Source: Kitchen Confidential
“Writing anything is terribly hard but, alas for me, because I am addicted, a heck of a lot of fun. I often am sorry I ever started writing prose, because it is so hard. But I can't stop.”
“Writing anything, it sorta starts the way you'd build a castle at the beach. You're just taking your hands and you're mounting up sand.”
“Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have attempted it several times and haven't had many complaints.”
“Writing as an art form belongs to all people, regardless of economic class or educational level. . . . A writer is someone who writes.”
Source: Writing Alone and with Others
“Writing as writing. Writing as rioting. Writing as righting.
On the best days, all three.”
“Writing at its foundation stone is the transmutation of personal experience into thought and weaving intricate patterns of thoughts into graphic scenes.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Writing at least is a silent meditation even though you’re going a hundred miles an hour.”
“Writing barely differs from Talking and Reading. It appoints your hand while they engage your mouth and eyes respectively. The trio need the mind to combine sensible words from a meaningful arrangement of the ‘simple’ A B C to Z.”
“Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me.”
“Writing became my anchor, my solace, my opiate of choice.”
Source: Vine: Book of Poetry
“Writing became my way to remain sane — and, ultimately, alive. Poetry was my salvation.”
Source: SONG FOR YOU / CÂNTEC PENTRU TINE (Bilingual English–Romanian Edition / Ediție bilingvă engleză–română / 2025): Poems of Love, Madness & Resurrection / ... nebunie și renaștere
“Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know what I was going to say. ~Sharon O'Brien”
“Writing becomes a really good creative outlet when you're sitting there and feeling creatively frustrated or stilted, but also you then get to write parts for yourself.”
“Writing becomes beautiful when it becomes specific, concrete.”
“Writing begins in the body, it is the music of the body, and even if the words have meaning, can sometimes have meaning, the music of the words is where the meanings begin....Writing as a lesser form of dance.”
“Writing blog posts is totally freeing in a whole new way for me. I'm not writing it for any editor, and I'm not being paid, so I can say whatever I want. I don't have to justify the cost of a book to readers; they get it for free, so expectations are naturally low. (And no one-star reviews!)”
“Writing blooms flowers for mind, which last forever.”
“Writing books about whores... I'll bet you newer... joined giblets wiv a man in your lily-white life.'
Dr. Hindley and Worthy began to reprove him, but Sara smiled quizzically. ' "Joined giblets?" ...I've never heard it put that way before.”
Source: Dreaming of You
“Writing books for me is anyway much like a military campaign. I confess to fighting my way through with military metaphors. There is a strategy, an overall concept, and there are tactics along the way…Tradition would say I was a 'child of Mars.'”
“Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation.”
“Writing books is by far the most interesting thing I have done in life.”
Source: Magee’s Disease
“Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation. It is lonesome, unsanitary, and maddening. Many authors go crazy.”
“Writing books is fun because after I do a show for a couple hours, I'm in a bus for 22 hours. It's not hard for me to look out the window and tell a joke here and there.”
“Writing books is one of the ways that human beings deal with loss, especially when you don't have religious consolation available.”
“Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.”
“Writing books isn't a drastic departure from writing for the stage.”
“Writing books isn't a drastic departure from writing for the stage. I've always written in the long format, five, eight, 10-minute pieces rather than one-liners, so since writing books, the process hasn't changed much. A piece in my live routine can end up as part of one of my HBO specials, and it can also end up in one of the books.”
“Writing books makes my bum sore!”
“Writing bridges the inner and outer worlds and connects the paths of action and reflection.”
Source: Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest
“Writing by hand is a way of letting mystery into my writing. But I'm constantly trying to figure out how to do this job. It's a work in progress.”
“Writing calls on unused muscles and involves solitude and immobility.”
Source: Becoming a Writer
“Writing can be a bit like unfolding something...Slowly, the writer reveals what's happening. But that's only half of what's going on. Writers are very cunning people who are not only unfolding and revealing. Just like conjurors and magicians, they are hiding stuff too.”
“Writing can be a lifeline, especially when your existence has been denied, especially when you have been left on the margins, especially when your life and process of growth have been subjected to attempts at strangulation.”
“Writing can be a lonely business. But gradually your characters, or the scenes and peopl from your past, begin to rise up around you, and you find yourself writing your way out of loneliness, writing into your own company.”
Source: A Year of Writing Dangerously: 365 Days of Inspiration and Encouragement
“Writing can be a long and winding road or a straightforward march to the finish.
What matters is that you enjoy the journey.”
Source: The Limbo Tree