W Quotes
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“Writing is an expression of the writer's own peculiar personality, could not help being so. Yet in reading great works one feels that the finished piece transcends the personal. All writers great and small must sometimes have felt that they have become part of what they wrote even more than it still remains a part of them.”
Source: On Writing
“Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.”
“Writing is an incessant process of discovery.”
“Writing is an incredibly creatively empowering experience for me. It is the place where nobody tries to control what I'm doing.”
“Writing is an incredibly lonely job.”
“Writing is an outlet, but it’s not an outlet of escape. People keep a journal when they want to escape. I write to rub my face in it.”
“Writing is an outward expression of instinctive insight that must be summoned from the vastly deep of our mysterious selves. Therefore, it cannot be taught; indeed, it cannot even be summoned; it can only be permitted.”
“Writing is an undertaking for the modest.”
Source: The complete prose of Marianne Moore
“Writing is another powerful way to sharpen the mental saw. Keeping a journal of our thoughts, experiences, insights, and learnings promotes mental clarity, exactness, and context.”
Source: The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time
“Writing is as big a part of my career as acting is, financially and time wise. So, yeah, I love it. That's all I wanted to do since I was young was be a writer. So that and acting are the two most important aspects of my career.”
“Writing is basically a job for people who like punching themselves in the face, I’m pretty sure.”
“Writing is beautiful, like putting on a gold suit and going to sleep in it.”
Source: The Angel in the Dream of Our Hangover
“Writing is best when it feels like a shared adventure—sometimes deep, sometimes chaotic, but always full of surprises.”
Source: Bonded For Life
“Writing is born out of passion and desire, but it is bred, brought up, in obsession and compulsion. Feed your drive to persist. Damn your fears. Claim your writing as your own,”
Source: You Can Write a Memoir
“Writing is both an act of power and surrender. Passion and discovery. It is a tug at your soul that continues to pull you forward, even as you go kicking and screaming.” (p.18)”
Source: Writing Begins with the Breath: Embodying Your Authentic Voice
“Writing is both bomb and bomb disposal-a necessary shattering of cliche and assumption, and a powerful defusing of the soul-destroying messages of modern life (that nothing matters, nothing changes, money is everything, etc). Writing is a state of being as well as an act of doing.”
“Writing is both mask and unveiling.”
Source: The Letters of E. B. White
“Writing is both my expression to the world and my way to hide from it - you get who I am without actually seeing me.”
“Writing is both the excursion into and the excursion out of one's life. That is the queasy paradox of the artistic life. It is the thing that, like love, removes one both painfully and deliciously from the ordinary shape of existence. It joins another queasy paradox: that life is an amazing, hilarious, blessed gift and that it is also intolerable.”
“Writing is breathing for the soul.”
“Writing is busy idleness.”
Source: Goethe's plays
“Writing is communication, not self-expression. Nobody in this world wants to read your diary except your mother.”
“Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.”
Source: Alms for oblivion: essays
“Writing is difficult. It's a time commitment, it's labor and I'd have to get myself to sit down and actually do the work and outline.”
“Writing is done alone. People do not talk about the things they do alone.”
“Writing is done by someone. It is not, like some mythical goddess, a skill that springs forth, full grown from the genes of inspiration.”
“Writing is easy. All you have to do is sit down at the typewriter, cut open a vein, and bleed.”
Source: To Absent Friends
“Writing is easy. It’s actually saying something that’s hard.”
“Writing is easy: just stare at the screen of your computer until a tear drops on your keyboard.”
“Writing is easy. Writing well is hard work.”
“Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.”
“Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.”
“Writing is easy. Just sit down and open a vein.”
“Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop.”
“Writing is emotional...it is baring your soul to the world and waiting for someone to acknowledge and love it, or shun and hate it, or worse be indifferent about it.”
Source: Doubt
“Writing is eternal, For therein the dead heart liveth, the clay-cold tongue is eloquent, And the quick eye of the reader is cleared by the reed of the scribe. As a fossil in the rock, or a coin in the mortar of a ruin, So the symbolled thoughts tell of a departed soul: The plastic hand hath its witness in a statue, and exactitude of vision in a picture, And so, the mind, that was among us, in its writings is embalmed.”
“Writing is exposing yourself to strangers”
Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom
“Writing is extremely personal, and that's the joy of it for me.”
“Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving it as a craft, using it as a way of growing in my own understanding, seems to me to be a beautiful way to live. And if that product is shareable with other people, so much the better.”
“Writing is fifty years behind painting.”
Source: Back in No Time: The Brion Gysin Reader
“Writing is finally a series of permissions you give yourself to be expressive in certain ways. To leap. To fly. To fail.”
“Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it. Putting words on paper that have never been there in quite that way before. And although you are physically by yourself, the haunting Demon never leaves you, that Demon being the knowledge of your own terrible limitations, your hopeless inadequacy, the impossibility of ever getting it right. No matter how diamond-bright your ideas are dancing in your brain, on paper they are earthbound.”
“Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing”
“Writing is flat, so if you only have part of one eye working, you still can do the job. It's just that you sit there and you're angry, which doesn't help.”
“Writing is flying in dreams. When you remember. When you can. When it works. It's that easy.”
Source: Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions
“Writing is for men who can think and feel, not mindless sensation seekers out of nightclubs and bars. But these are bad times. We are condemned to work with upstarts, clowns who no doubt got their training in a circus and then turned to journalism as the appropriate place to display their tricks.”
“Writing is for stories to be read, books to be published, poems to be recited, plays to be acted, songs to be sung, newspapers to be shared, letters to be mailed, jokes to be told, notes to be passed, recipes to be cooked, messages to be exchanged, memos to be circulated, announcements to be posted, bills to be collected, posters to be displayed and diaries to be concealed. Writing is for ideas, action, reflection, and experience. It is not for having your ignorance exposed, your sensitivity destroyed, or your ability assessed.”
“Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.”
Source: Siddhartha: A New Translation
“Writing is great because in the writing you never have to... First of all you never have to leave your home. And you never have to meet the test of reality when you're writing.”
“Writing is grunt work - you need to have self-motivation, perseverance, and faith... talent is the smallest part of it.”