W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.”
Source: Truth and Beauty: A Friendship
“Writing is a job: you must show up.”
“Writing is a joint enterprise of the mind and body. Writing requires application of mental discipline and demands great personal patience. Writing is an educational process that other persons successfully deployed to explore the external cultural milieu and probe their inner landscape. Writing is the hand-wielded tool that I opt to employ in order to ferret out myself and discern my place in the world. I will use the writer’s tools to analyze my reprehensive personal behavior, using of a lever of words in an attempt mentally to manipulate my internal intellectual gears. Documentation of the arched calligraphy of the landscape demarking my physical journey in life and scripting the final configuration of my intellectual intertexture is the goal of this multifaceted writing venture.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Writing is a journey into the unknown.”
Source: Adaptation: Screenplay
“Writing is a key differentiator. I've used it for 14 years. Writing will not just lead to differentiation. Writing is the credibility you need to create buyer confidence”
“Writing is a kind of free fall that you then go back and edit and shape.”
“Writing is a kind of magic that can be accessed by simply learning how to read.”
Source: Dare to Read: Improving Your Reading Speed and Skills
“Writing is a kind of performing art, and I can't sit down to write unless I'm dressed. I don't mean dressed in a suit, but dressed well and comfortably and I have to be shaved and bathed.”
“Writing is a kind of revenge against circumstance too: bad luck, loss, pain. If you make something out of it, then you've no longer been bested by these events.”
“writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind.”
“Writing is a legitimate way, an important way, to participate in the empowerment of the community that names me.”
“Writing is a lifelong disease.
Once contracted, the only prescription is to write constantly in whatever form to express your condition, in whatever construction to carry your words beyond you.”
“Writing is a little door. Some fantasies, like big pieces of furniture, won’t come through.”
Source: As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
“Writing is a lofty form of lying that has been elevated to art.”
“Writing is a lonely act. When two writers come together to write a horror story it can be crazy. You can't step on a mine and hope it doesn't explode.”
Source: Escrita Maldita
“Writing is a lonely business.”
Source: The Best American Poetry 2015
“Writing is a lonely experience, Reading is a lonely pleasure.' - D Gohil”
Source: Echo: The Infinite Cycle: A Mind-Bending Time Travel Thriller of Parallel Lives and Identity
“Writing is a lonely job, unless you're a drinker, in which case you always have a friend within reach.”
“Writing is a lonely job. Even if a writer socializes regularly, when he gets down to the real business of his life, it is he and his type writer or word processor. No one else is or can be involved in the matter.”
Source: I, Asimov: A Memoir
“Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot if difference. They don't have to makes speeches. Just believing is usually enough.”
Source: On writing: a memoir of the craft
“Writing is a lonely occupation at best. Of course there are stimulating and even happy associations with friends and colleagues, but during the actual work of creation the writer cuts himself off from all others and confronts his subject alone. He* moves into a realm where he has never been before — perhaps where no one has ever been. It is a lonely place, even a little frightening.”
“Writing is a lonely way of life. You shut yourself up in your study and work and work.”
Source: Vintage PKD
“Writing is a long and lonesome business; back of the problems in thought and composition hover always the awful questions: Is this the page that shows the empty shell? Is it here and now that they find me out?”
Source: THE GREAT CRASH 1929
“Writing is a lot like making soup. My subconscious cooks the idea, but I have to sit down at the computer to pour it out.”
“Writing is a manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.”
“Writing is a marathon, not a sprint.”
“Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture.”
“Writing is a matter of finding the appropriate balance of dinosaurs and sodomy”
“Writing is a miracle. You can travel anywhere in the world, to any time and any place — and still be home in time to have dinner.”
“Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world.”
Source: This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
“Writing is a mode of agency in the world that is different from mere employment. There has to be some sort of ethical or moral drive, even if you are unaware of it.”
“Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.”
Source: Dubin's Lives: A Novel
“Writing is a mysterious activity.”
“Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.”
“Writing is a necessity and often a pleasure, but at the same time, it can be a great burden and a terrible struggle.”
“Writing is a noble privilege compared with the lot of most people, who live like parts of a machine, who live only to keep the gears of society pointlessly turning.”
“Writing is a particular kind of frustration, which is why when I was making the structure for the novel I visualized it for myself with a color-coded board so I could see it.”
“Writing is a passion I have never understood, yet a storyteller is all I have ever wanted to be.”
“Writing is a path of knowing, a process of cognition, an act of being and becoming. The flesh gives voice to sing or rant, a verbal dance of cells, atoms, energy, intention, and attention.”
Source: Writing and the Body in Motion: Awakening Voice through Somatic Practice
“Writing is a performance art for me. They're very closely aligned, writing and performing. But I'm a writer, not a performer.”
“Writing is a performance, like singing an aria or dancing a jig”
“Writing is a perpetual choice between a thousand expressions, none of which satisfies me, none of which, above all, satisfies me without the others. Yet I ought to know that only music permits a succession of chords.”
“Writing is a political instrument.”
“Writing is a private discipline, in a field of companions.”
“Writing is a process and you must trust the process! Fear and anxiety are part of that process along with the enthusaism and the good days and the joy and the passion and the great hopes you have for a book. But when you run into problems, when you get stuck or scared, you must trust that that is part of how a book comes to pass, and what you need to do is get very still and quiet because Self will tell you how to get out of a hole you've dug for yourself.”
“Writing is a process of discovering. I could never outline a narrative; that just sounds boring. There's no joy of discovery in what you're doing if that's your strategy.”
“Writing is a process of discovery of what you really do know. You can't limit yourself in advance to what you know, because you don't know everything you know.”
Source: The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film
“Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul.”
“Writing is a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it.”
“Writing is a profession that has no real career structure and your best advice when you hit a difficulty is probably going to come from another writer one or two rungs on the career ladder ahead of you.”