W Quotes
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“Writing is a concentrated form of thinking.”
Source: Conversations with Don DeLillo
“Writing is a concentrated form of thinking...a young writer sees that with words he can place himself more clearly into 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.”
“Writing is a consciousness formally at work in the territory of the imaginary.”
“Writing is a consequence of having been 'haunted' by material. Why this is, no one knows.”
“Writing is a constant exercise in longing.”
“Writing is a conversation with reading; a dialogue with thinking. All conversations with older people contain repetition. Some of the ideas mean a lot to me, just interesting, so I both embrace and attack the ideas because I found them, well, delightful.”
Source: Racism 101
“Writing is a conversation, to me. The best kind. You can't get interrupted.”
“Writing is a cop-out. An excuse to live perpetually in fantasy land, where you can create, direct and watch the products of your own head. Very selfish.”
“Writing is a craft not an art.”
Source: On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction
“Writing is a creative art form and the acting and directing is more of an interpretive art form.”
“Writing is a creatively rewarding occupation but for me very time consuming.”
“Writing is a crummy profession, but a good hobby.”
“Writing is a deep-sea dive. You need hours just to get into it: down, down, down. If you're called back to the surface every couple of minutes by an email, you can't ever get back down. I have a great friend who became a Twitterer and he says he hasn't written anything for a year.”
“Writing is a deeper sleep than death. Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave, I can't be dragged from my desk at night.”
“Writing is a deeply immersive experience. When the words are flying, the house could be burgled and I wouldn’t notice. I have a low boredom threshold and I like intensity – writing is a way of escaping the quotidian.”
“Writing is a delicious agony.”
“Writing is a demanding profession and a selfish one. And because it is selfish and demanding, because it is compulsive and exacting, I didn't embrace it. I succumbed to it.”
“Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring then to be original; by destroying one's first productions.”
“Writing is a divine art, and the more I write and read the more I love it.”
Source: The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1888-1912 (Virginia Stephen)
“Writing is a dog’s life, but the only one worth living.”
“Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.”
“Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.”
Source: Carlyle Reader
“Writing is a dying form. One reads of this every day.”
“Writing is a fearsome but grand vocation—potentially healing but likewise deadly. I wouldn’t trade my life for the world.”
“Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.”
Source: This Business of Living
“Writing is a form of art. Do not use New Times Roman or Arial because it's boring and hackneyed.”
“Writing is a form of art. Writers are creative individuals with incredible imaginations. They can use words to transport their readers into the world of their imaginations and depict compelling stories that prompt the reader to see and experience the world through the lives of remarkable and sometimes unforgettable characters.”
Source: Train to Mumbai
“Writing is a form of herding. I herd words into little paragraph-like clusters.”
“Writing is a form of mischief.”
“Writing is a form of painting with words. Artists of every genre seek to convey every aspect of being, but some internal scenery proves impossible to recreate with word pictures. Writers and poets, past and present, seem to be obsessed with what it means to die, and perpetually haunted by actively imagining how to destroy their own being. Perchance this morbid fascination with eternal silence is because death is the one event that remains outside their ability ever accurately to paint with words.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.”
Source: Conversations with Don DeLillo
“Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals.”
Source: Conversations with Don DeLillo
“Writing is a form of rebellion against reality. Rebel!”
“Writing is a form of self-flagellation.”
“Writing is a form of talking, although writing is such an odd thing in and of itself. People go about it in such different ways.”
“Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.”
“Writing is a funny business. You sit in your room and listen to voices and write everything down. What kind of a profession is that?”
“Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment.”
“Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment. All that remains of my mother is what I remember and what I have written for and about her. Eventually that is all that will remain of [my husband] and me. Writing sometimes feels frivolous and sometimes sacred, but memory is one of my strongest muses. I serve her with my words. So long as people read, those we love survive however evanescently. As do we writers, saying with our life's work, Remember. Remember us. Remember me.”
“Writing is a gift I am grateful for. So I use it, give it, but not always I get it right. In not getting it right, I will be content to know that I failed right by not wasting that gift.”
“Writing is a good example of self-abandonment. I never completely forget myself except when I am writing and I am never more completely myself than when I am writing.”
“Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.”
“Writing is a great love of mine.”
“Writing is a habit, an addiction, as powerful and overmastering an urge as putting a bottle to your lips or a spike in your arm. Call it the impulse to make something out of nothing, call it an obsessive-compulsive disorder, call it logorrhea. Have you been in a bookstore lately? Have you seen what these authors are doing, the mountainous piles of the flakes of themselves they're leaving behind, like the neatly labeled jars of shit, piss, and toenail clippings one of John Barth's characters bequeathed to his wife, the ultimate expression of his deepest self?”
“Writing is a hard business...but nothing makes you feel better.”
“Writing is a hard gig, and it's hard to convey a lot. That's why scripts tend to be a little bit overwritten.”
“Writing is a hard task. Even when the sun, moon and stars stop shining, the mind continues to reason. Writing is the channel through which we enjoy History, it's the pillar on which Science stands and thrives. Writing makes us more wise.”
Source: The Girl From America
“Writing is a hellish task, best snuck up on, whacked on the head, robbed and left for dead.”
“Writing is a intensely personal activity. I can pen down my best thoughts when Im alone. But when one is elevated into the stature of an author, you have to think about your books in terms of their business angle.”
“Writing is a job, a craft, and you learn it by trying to write every day and by facing the page with humility and gall. And you have to love to read books, all kinds of books, good books. You are not looking for anything in particular; you are just letting stuff seep in.”