W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“writing home"
here in the wilderness of australia
writing home becomes easy
in spite of the spreading wild fires
there is less heat, more certainty.
writing home, writing this
i think of those without real homes–
our city, people say, provides houses
which do not, often, bring one home.”
Source: The Best of Kirpal Singh
“Writing humor in my column isn't as dangerous as performing it. If I fail in front of a live audience, the humiliation is as great as anything a human being can suffer.”
Source: Leaving home: a memoir
“Writing humor is not something every single person can do.”
“Writing, I feel my way on instinct—always trying to find the beating heart of things. It’s a delicate procedure, and often the flashing firefly I catch at dusk turns out to just be a dark bug in the light of morning. Logic, apparently, is not enough. I am learning to trust my senses and allow the dancing of time to teach me what I need to know.”
Source: This Truth Never Fails: A Zen Memoir in Four Seasons
“Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in the mirror which waits always before or behind”
“Writing I think, out of what all of us do, writing is the hardest. You're the only who start with nothing except what's up here. You do that. It's really hard I think, acting is not.”
“Writing imaginative tales for the young is like sending coals to Newcastle. For coals.”
Source: M Is for Magic
“Writing improves in direct ratio to the things we can keep out of it that shouldn't be there.”
Source: On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction
“Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I’ve never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year old school girl. Oh well, it doesn’t matter. I feel like writing.”
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition
“Writing in a foreign language - has brought me to the cries of the women silently rebelling in my youth, to my own true origins.”
Source: Fantasia, an Algerian Cavalcade
“Writing in a journal each day, with a structured, strategic process allows you to direct your focus to what you did accomplish, what you're grateful for, and what you're committed to doing better tomorrow. Thus, you more deeply enjoy your journey each day, feel good about any forward progress you made, and use a heightened level of clarity to accelerate your results.”
“Writing in a journal is just a stall, a waiting game, a way to tell yourself that you're working when you're not, that you're doing something of value when you're just using up paper, that you're a writer when in fact you're just going through the motions of one. Look at me! I have blank paper in front of me-and now I'm filling it, with words!”
Source: Robert's Rules of Writing
“Writing in a journal reminds you of your goals and of your learning in life. It offers a place where you can hold a deliberate, thoughtful conversation with yourself.”
“Writing in a lot of ways feels more like excavation than construction. It feels like you're uncovering this thing bit by bit, discovering what it is, instead of constructing it upwards.”
“Writing in a nuanced way, getting at all the details in a way that remains interesting for the reader, is very difficult.”
“Writing in African languages became a topic of discussion in conferences, in schools, in classrooms; the issue is always being raised - so it's no longer "in the closet," as it were. It's part of the discussion going on about the future of African literature. The same questions are there in Native American languages, they're there in native Canadian languages, they're there is some marginalized European languages, like say, Irish. So what I thought was just an African problem or issue is actually a global phenomenon about relationships of power between languages and cultures.”
“Writing in English is like throwing mud at a wall.”
“Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.”
Source: The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more
“Writing in English was a major challenge. I didn't want other songwriters to write for me. I wanted to preserve the spirit of my songs in Spanish. I am the same Shakira in English as I am in Spanish.”
“Writing in French is one of my ambitions. I'd like to be able to dream one day in French. Italian and French are the two languages that I'd like to know.”
“Writing in journalism teaches you to be very comfortable taking criticism, being edited, and rewriting.”
“Writing in my journal keeps me focused on my spirit and what I need or feel.”
“Writing in other voices is almost Japanese in the sense that theres a certain formality there which allows me to sidestep the embarrassment of directly expressing to complete strangers the most intimate details of my life.”
“Writing in the first person automatically gives you a point of view.”
“Writing in the first person helps to make clear the author's role in constructing rather than discovering the story/knowledge.”
Source: Feminist Research in Theory and Practice
“Writing in the form of activism, art, or entertainment is a necessary and basic foundation for a productive, well informed society.”
“Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.”
“Writing induces a person to work exclusively to expand his or her knowledge, follow their ideas, and remain aloofly unconcerned of earning the approval or scorn of other people.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Writing involves an acceptance of being on the margin, the threshold, a galvanization out of received notions into a more activated, kinetic, often perilous, seeing.”
“Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination.”
“Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials.”
“Writing is 90% procrastination, 8% perspiration, and 6%biscuit
None of it is math.”
“Writing is 90% struggle. The other 10% is up to you.”
Source: Underneath a Harlem Moon: The Harlem to Paris Years of Adelaide Hall
“Writing is 90% procrastination. It is a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in the morning and you reach the point where you have to write.”
“Writing is a beautiful way to let out pain. When you put your story out there, you release it. Once it is no longer buried or stuck within you, you are free to move forward.”
Source: The Story You Need to Tell: Writing to Heal from Trauma, Illness, or Loss
“Writing is a bit like being a god”
“Writing is a bit like swimming. You learn writing by doing it and you learn swimming by doing it. Nobody learns how to swim by reading a book about swimming and nobody learns how to write by reading a book about writing. If you want to learn how to write, write a lot and you will get better at it.”
“Writing is a bit like walking into a big bookstore. It's the bookstore of your brain, and you know you're never going to read all those books. It makes you happy you're in the bookstore, and you're nervous because you know you're never going to read all those books. So the nervousness is also happy. Once I get going writing poetry is one of the happiest things I do, but it is also fraught with all of these anxieties.”
“Writing is a bitch. It's an itch that I love to scratch.”
Source: ACross Tic
“Writing is a bridge between minds. Words carry ideas, emotions, and culture across distances and generations. A single story has the power to change perspectives, inspire action, and spark empathy.”
“Writing is a calling, not a choice.”
“Writing is a chain of thoughts that we put into words!”
“Writing is a channeling of an individual experience; so is reading. That's what's so exciting about this art form - it's interactive.”
“Writing is a combination of being alert to your outer surroundings and alive to your inner reality.”
“Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.”
“Writing is a communication.”
“Writing is a competition between the writer and the page. When the page wins, you fail as a writer.”
Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom
“Writing is a completely private act. It's in a way like play but very serious play, and sometimes I can escape into the fictional world that I'm creating so fully as to see hours go by without my noticing it. I think that kind of suspension of time and that mindfulness is a real gift.”
“Writing is a compulsion”
“Writing is a concentrated form of thinking. I don’t know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down and try to write about them. Maybe I wanted to find more rigorous ways of thinking. We’re talking now about the earliest writing I did and about the power of language to counteract the wallow of late adolescence, to define things, define muddled experience in economical ways. Let’s not forget that writing is convenient. It requires the simplest tools. A young writer sees that with words and sentences on a piece of paper that costs less than a penny he can place himself more clearly in the world. Words on a page, that’s all it takes to help him separate himself from the forces around him, streets and people and pressures and feelings. He learns to think about these things, to ride his own sentences into new perceptions.”