W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Writing can be a pretty desperate endeavor, because it is about some of our deepest needs: our need to be visible, to be heard, our need to make sense of our lives, to wake up and grow and belong. It is no wonder if we sometimes tend to take ourselves perhaps a bit too seriously.”
Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
“Writing can be a very solitary business. It's you sat at a desk typing words into a computer. It can get lonely sometimes and lots of writers live quite isolated lives.”
“Writing can be an incredible mindfulness practice.”
“Writing can be bad and still be part of something good. That 'art' is really 'artifact,' Exhibit A, Exhibit B, of something else: a person's whole experience and life. And that always there's the chance that this will fail. That things will not work out.”
Source: Aliens & anorexia
“Writing can be described in two verbs: Throw up and clean up.”
“Writing can be either readable or precise, but not at the same time.”
“Writing can be such a lonely endeavor that I do think community is also important.Meeting at cafes and exchanging work and reading to each other and giving each other little bits of encouragement and feedback and thoughts, I think that's an incredibly rich experience because what it does is it gives you a sense of community but also purpose. If I know I'm going to meet you in a cafe next Tuesday, I'm going to write something that I can hand to you. Discipline is such a challenge for so many writers and so I think that that's a key benefit of being in a group.”
“Writing can be wonderful therapy, and cheap at the price. At the very least, you eventually get bored by thinking about anxious topics and move on.”
Source: The Courage to Write: How Writers Transcend Fear
“Writing can come naturally to some. Still, when it comes to good writing, this is true: Easy reading is damn hard writing.”
“Writing can feel more like a skill-based lottery. If you work hard and have some base talent, maybe you’ll catch lightning in a bottle and be one of the very few writers who earn eye-popping advances.”
“Writing can give full meaning to characters and avoid pure stereotype.”
“Writing can take you to places you’ve never been, introduce you to people you’ve never met, take you back to when you first saw those shadows in your room, when you first heard the sounds mumbling ever so softly from your closet, and it can show you what uttered them. It can scare the hell out of you, and that’s when you know it’s good.”
“Writing can teach us the dignity of speaking the truth.”
Source: Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
“Writing can wreck your body. You sit there on the chair hour after hour and sweat your guts out to get a few words.”
“Writing cannot be done in a state of desirelessness.”
Source: The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes
“Writing cannot express all words, words cannot encompass all ideas.”
“Writing cant change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul.”
“Writing checks for charities is necessary and important. But it can't compare with corporal works of mercy, which are infinitely greater.”
“Writing checks to the IRS that include strings of zeros does not bother me ... Overall, we feel extraordinarily lucky to have been dealt a hand in life that enables us to write large checks to the government rather than one requiring the government to regularly write checks to us-say, because we are disabled or unemployed.”
“Writing code is not production, it's not always craftsmanship though it can be, it's design.”
“Writing code is one of the most peaceful things one can do if the intentions are right.”
“Writing code means always having to say you're sorry.”
“Writing code? That's the easy part. Getting your application in the hands of users, and creating applications that people actually want to use - now that's the hard stuff.”
“Writing comedy is the greatest spiritual gift you can give to anybody anytime.”
“Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.”
“Writing comes from the fear of failure not from the joy of winning.”
“Writing comes into being to retain information across time and across space. Before writing, communication is evanescent and local; sounds carry a few yards and fade to oblivion. The evanescence of the spoken word went without saying. So fleeting was speech that the rare phenomenon of the echo, a sound heard once and then again, seemed a sort of magic.”
“Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.”
“Writing comics? Still the best job in the world. I sit around all day making shit up and see it illustrated, in 99% of cases, exactly as I imagined it -- if not better. I've been doing this a long time now, and I'm going to do it until I die. Which probably won't be long, given the constant insane deadline pressure.”
“Writing complex characters is the penultimate exercise in empathy.”
“Writing consist of everything. whether your writing is of riddles, rimes, prose, trivial, general, of thought, or of feeling. indiscretions you've done or have fantasized about. love, deception, romance, fear, death, life, pain, & yes even happiness. writing is of a specific purpose & states a meaning within what is written.”
“Writing creates doors into other worlds, all the reader has to do is open it. D.B. Thomas”
Source: Sanditon on Reflection
“Writing crime thrillers is all about building scenes within chapters. Each scene, written from a specific character’s point of view, must ratchet up the tension. And the final scene in every chapter? It has to be so gripping that it leaves the reader no choice but to turn the page.”
“Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.”
“Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action.”
“Writing day and night for months… that’s hard.”
“Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature.”
“Writing dialogue is like writing a song, which I've done.”
“Writing didn't carry the same risks as speaking. You couldn't be shouted down or stared at. The page was both a proxy and a shield.”
Source: The Mime Order
“Writing directly from a feeling of anger or sadness is difficult, but if you distract part of your brain with word games, the ignored emotion often tiptoes in.”
“Writing distills, crystallizes, and clarifies thought.”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition
“Writing does for me what giving milk does for a cow.”
“Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.”
“Writing does not exclude the full life; it demands it.”
“Writing does not exist unless there is someone to read it, and each reader will take something different from a novel, from a chapter, from a line.”
Source: Swimming Lessons
“Writing does not make me rich, but I am enriched every day I write.”
“Writing does not numb, comfort, or soothe me. It does the opposite. It tends to excite me and reinscribe pain. It doesn't function as exorcism.”
“Writing does not resurrect. It buries.”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“Writing doesn't hurt anymore for I've somehow convinced myself that you're never going to read everything I've written for you...”
Source: Letters to Mira!
“Writing doesn't come easily to anyone, I think, certainly not to me. But pressure and practice does lend a certain fluency, I think - the more sentences you write, the more sentences you have written, if that slightly Zen confection makes any sense.”