W Quotes
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“Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.”
Source: Crooning
“Writing is medicine. It is an appropriate antidote to injury. It is an appropriate companion for any difficult change.”
“Writing is mental exercise and the preeminent method to train the mind to achieve a desirable state of mental quietude. Meditative writing, a single pointed concentration of mental activity, induces an altered state of consciousness. Writing is studious rumination, a means to converse with our personal muse. Writing entails a period of forced solitude that enables us to meet and conduct a searching conversation with our authentic self. This contemplative dialogue with our true self is transformational. Writing is not a mere act but a journey of the mind into heretofore-unknown frontiers of the self.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Writing is mentally stimulating; it's like a puzzle that makes you think all the time.”
“Writing is more about telling other peoples' stories than your own”
“Writing is more than a catharsis or a craft.
It's a business.
Don't neglect marketing.”
“Writing is more than a gift. It is a struggle that blesses those who see it through to the end.”
“Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences if they do not. It pays a whole lot better than this type of compulsion, but it is no more heroic.”
Source: Sex & Sensibility
“Writing is more than just the making of a series of comprehensible statements: it is the gathering in of connotations; the harvesting of them, like blackberries in a good season, ripe and heavy, snatched from among the thorns of logic.”
“Writing is mostly a case of mood management. The emotion you have is not absolute, it is temporary. It may be useful, but it is not the truth. It is not you.”
“Writing is my earthly calling. The world of words is the perfect Utopia in whose rapture I am altogther caught up. ("Smashwords," 2018)”
“Writing is my form of celebration and prayer.”
Source: An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain
“Writing is my greatest adventure as it takes me deep into the psychology of the self, the dark woods containing entombed skeleton of a former self, and the secrets of a future self. Until I demystify all aspects of being, I will be forevermore chasing an enigmatic persona, and living with an unholy pack of insecurities, self-doubts, and unchecked skepticism and pessimism. Until I discover how to preserve the independence of solitude, I will always doubt myself and live an anxious and worrisome life.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Writing is my job. I don't think of it as art.”
“Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11.”
“Writing is my number one passion. I've written two novels. I've written a screenplay. I also write short stories and poetry.”
“Writing is my obsession, my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizing and richly vexing that I have in my life.”
“Writing is my only interest. Even speaking is an interruption.”
“Writing is my only way of drawing emotions. I know no other enthralling way to do it.”
“Writing is my passion, expression and an incessant obsession.”
Source: Just the Way I Feel
“Writing is my passion. Words are the way to know ecstasy. Without them life is barren.”
“Writing is my passion. Words are the way to know ecstasy. Without them life is barren. The poet insists, language is a body of suffering and when you take up language you take up the suffering too. All my life I have been suffering for words. Words have been the source of the pain and the way to heal. Struck as a child for talking, for speaking out of turn, for being out of my place. Struck as a grown woman for not knowing when to shut up, for not being willing to sacrifice words for desire. Struck by writing a book that disrupts. There are many ways to be hit. Pain is the price we pay to speak the truth.”
Source: Wounds of Passion: A Writing Life
“Writing is my passion. It is a way to experience the ecstatic. The root understanding of the word ecstasy—“to stand outside”—comes to me in those moments when I am immersed so deeply in the act of thinking and writing that everything else, even flesh, falls away.”
Source: remembered rapture: the writer at work
“Writing is my primary way of expressing myself.”
“Writing is my rebellion against silence”
“Writing is my refuge. It's where I go. It's where I find that integrity I have.”
“Writing is my response to my own crazy world. It's often sporadic, ignited by some noteworthy occurrence in my life. Rarely is it reflective, frequently intrusive. You see sometimes I aim for allegory, but there are certain truths about life that one has to paint as it is, there are ideas that cannot be dressed up.
I more than anyone else understands how suffering and personal experiences influences the creative process. My books are nurtured by happiness and despair. Every experience in my everyday life comes with it owns dripping of medicine and or toxins, lessons that only my interactions with others can effectively teach.
My life is entirely influenced by human behavior and my books are about my culture and human nature. My degree is from HardKnock Life University. Who I am is a reflection of the people who shaped my life. I am their reflection. I am novelist. The only doctorate i have is on life. The reality of life is the only thing I know.I’m”
Source: Jamaican Acute-Ghetto-itis: Jamaican Sociological Commentary
“Writing is my shelter. I don't hide behind the words; I use them to dig inside my heart to find the truth.”
“Writing is my therapy. In addition to my real therapy. God knows where I'd be without it. I'd probably still be at my last job, working in HR at a religious organization. I was horribly miscast.”
“Writing is my therapy. My feelings build up inside of me and then I sit down and write a song.”
“Writing is my vacation from living.”
Source: The Strategy of Survival: Human Significance of O'Neill's Plays
“Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.”
“Writing is my way of trying to understand vast things that probably I'll never truly understand, a way of exploring a Big Question, of wrestling meaning from the chaos of life. Consequently, when I choose to write overtly or even secretly about my real life, it's always something difficult and complicated that I'm longing to make sense of.”
“Writing is mysterious, and it's supposed to be...any path that gets you there is a good path in the end. But one true thing among all these paths is the need to tap a deep vein of connection between our own uncontrollable interior preoccupations and what we're most concerned about in the world around us. We write in response to that world; we write in response to what we read and learn; and in the end we write out of our deepest selves, the live, breathing, bleeding place where the picture forms, and where it all begins.”
“Writing is nature's way of letting you know how sloppy your thinking is.”
“Writing is nearly always a matter of finding whatever your brain needs to trick it into being creative, and in my case, a tiny little bit of fact just seems to work.”
“Writing is never, ever easy but I wake up every morning grateful for the gift of being able to do this.”
“Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps.”
Source: Write Away: One Writer's Approach to the Novel
“Writing is no more than wending a way in an attempt to restore all of the paths that had been cut-short, headed off at the pass, de-railed, even if worded byways are more dangerous than wooded paths, even if the way of writing is ill-lit, and most of all braced by the uncertainty of solitary passage.”
Source: Buffalo Trace: A Threefold Vibration
“Writing is no respecter of blueprints.”
Source: On Writing Well: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction
“Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult.”
Source: Leacock on Life
“Writing is not "the establishment of a professional reputation" as if one were a doctor or lawyer; it is not properly in the sentence with creation of a family and the purchase of a home.”
Source: Sight-readings: American Fictions
“Writing is not a choice for me, it is a calling.”
“Writing is not a genteel profession. It's quite nasty and tough and kind of dirty.”
“Writing is not a great profession as a lot of writers proclaim. I write because this is something I can do. Another thing—very often I think a lot of writers write because they have failed to do other things. How many writers can’t drive? A lot. They’re not practical. They are not capable in everyday life.”
“Writing is not a job or activity. Nor do I sit at a desk writing for inspiration to strike. Writing is like a different kind of existence. In my life, for some of the time, I am in an alternative world, which I enter through day-dreaming or imagination. That world seems as real to me as the more tangible one of relationships and work, cars and taxes. I don't know that they're much different from each other.”
“Writing is not a matter of time, but a matter or of space. If you don't keep space in your head for writing, you won't write even if you have the time.”
“Writing is not a McDonald's Hamburger.”
Source: Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
“Writing is not a mere occupation, but a passionate journey that transcends boundaries of time. It demands countless hours of dedication, pouring your soul onto paper, immersing yourself in a world of imagination. When the clock strikes nine to five, true writers ascend beyond the ordinary, igniting their creative flame that burns through the night. Embrace the unyielding spirit that fuels your words and remember, great stories are born from the relentless hours we invest, illuminating the world with our art.”
“Writing is not a mystery. It is a craft like any other, and it can be learned.”