W Quotes
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“writing is like being in love. You never get better at it or learn more about it. The day you think you do is the day you lose it. Robert Frost called his work a lover's quarrel with the world. It's ongoing. It has neither a beginning nor an end. You don't have to worry about learning things. The fire of one's art burns all the impurities from the vessel that contains it.”
“Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.”
Source: The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life
“Writing is like bricklaying; you put down one word after another. Sometimes the wall goes up straight and true and sometimes it doesn't and you have to push it down and start again, but you don't stop; it's your trade.”
“Writing is like building a bridge while you're on it. If you step forward you fall off and there's nothing in front of you.”
“Writing is like carrying a fetus.”
“Writing is like designing. Use the users' language.”
“Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”
“Writing is like everything else: the more you do it the better you get. Don't try to perfect as you go along, just get to the end of the damn thing. Accept imperfections. Get it finished and then you can go back. If you try to polish every sentence there's a chance you'll never get past the first chapter.”
“Writing is like food for my soul. It gives my overactive mind
something to chew and allows my body to digest the trauma it's
been through.”
Source: Queen of the Pale Woods
“Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.”
Source: The Black Prince
“Writing is like giving birth to a piano sideways. Anyone who perseveres is either talented or nuts.”
“Writing is like going to bed with a beautiful woman and afterwards she gets up, goes to her purse and gives me a handful of money.”
“Writing is like going underwater - thank you for being there when I come back up.”
Source: The Girl With Glass Feet
“Writing is like having sex.
When you start, you stop thinking, and just go with the flow.”
Source: The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes
“Writing is like hunting. There are brutally cold afternoons with nothing in sight, only the wind and your breaking heart. Then the moment when you bag something big. The entire process is beyond intoxicating.”
“Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.”
“Writing is like listening to a melody line in my head. Note by note, it knows where it wants to go. I follow it and lay it down. I can pare it, shape it, and polish it later...My job is to take down the dribs and drabs - to free-associate, if you will, knowing that the associations have their own plans for where we're going with all this.”
“Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.”
“Writing is like meditation or going into an ESP trance, or prayer. Like dreaming. You are tapping into your unconscious. To be fully conscious and alert, with life banging and popping and cuckooing all around, you are not going to find your way to your subconscious, which is a place of complete submission.”
“Writing is like mining for gold hidden in the hillsides of your mind.”
“Writing is like paying myself a formal visit.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition
“Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.”
“Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.”
“Writing is like pulling your hair out. You have nothing, and you can't think of anything, but you have to think of something.”
“Writing is like sausage making in my view; you'll all be happier in the end if you just eat the final product without knowing what's gone into it.”
“Writing is like sculpturing words out of a block of imagination. Sentences chisel the story, then characters make it their own.”
Source: The Sea Of Forgotten Memories
“Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”
“Writing is like sex, if it's difficult you're not doing it right.”
“Writing is like sex. The more you think about it, the harder it is to do. It's better not to think about it so much and just let it happen.”
“Writing is like sex. You have to save your love for the love object. If you go around spouting about your idea, there'll be no "charge" left. You can't father children that way.”
“Writing is like singing. Everybody can sing. One only has to find the pitch that will fit the voice. Same with writing—finding the pitch that will fit the thought.”
“Writing is like taking crap; you can't stop it even if you wanted to.
Writing is like being God of a universe where you wield lethal powers of creation and destruction while you candidly sip your coffee.
Writing is like living several lives all at once. And so is reading!”
Source: Emit Eht
“Writing is like that. You have to have some basic creative spark, and then, if you have that, I feel like you can learn the production side of it. You can learn how to be a good producer. And I guess it does take a certain balance of those two skills in your head to be a successful showrunner.”
“Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.”
Source: My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition
“Writing is like the relationship with your bowels. First you can, then you can't. Finally, you must. Only then should you reach for the paper.”
“Writing is like this -- you dredge for the poem's meaning the way police dredge for a body. They think it is down there under the black water, they work the grappling hooks back and forth.”
“Writing is Like waking on Water, Seems not possible at all, But Only person Understand Who Feel the Walking Sound of Tears while felling from Eyes”
“Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.”
“Writing is like washing windows in the sun. With every attempt to perfect clarity, you make a new smear.”
“Writing is like wrestling; you are wrestling with ideas and with the story. There is a lot of energy required. At the same time, it is exciting. So it is both difficult and easy. What you must accept is that your life is not going to be the same while you are writing. I have said in the kind of exaggerated manner of writers and prophets that writing, for me, is like receiving a term of imprisonment-you know that's what you're in for, for whatever time it takes.”
“Writing is linear and sequential; Sentence B must follow Sentence A, and Sentence C must follow Sentence B, and eventually you get to Sentence Z. The hard part of writing isn't the writing; it's the thinking. You can solve most of your writing problems if you stop after every sentence and ask: What does the reader need to know next?”
“Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is a kind of magic.”
“Writing is lonely. Until that moment you write your first character and suddenly you have company.”
“Writing is lonely work,
because it demands solitude.
But solitude often forgets to bring peace.”
“Writing is magic because it harnesses the energy generated by the chaos within.”
“Writing is magic happening on paper”
Source: Pearls Of Eternity
“Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.”
Source: On Writing
“Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.”
“Writing is making sense of life.”
Source: Conversations with Nadine Gordimer
“Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.”
Source: Conversations with Nadine Gordimer