W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Writing is one of the most solitary activities in the world.”
“Writing is one of the ways I participate in transformation.”
“Writing is one thing and knowledge is another. Writing is the photographing of knowledge, but it is not knowledge itself. Knowledge is a light which is within man. It is the heritage of all the ancestors knew and have transmitted to us as seed, just as the mature baobab is contained in its seed.”
“Writing is one way to achieve enchantment.”
“Writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too.”
Source: the elements of style
“Writing is only a guided dream.”
“Writing is only the frosting on my cake. Im whole without it.”
“Writing is pain relief, or at least pain management.”
Source: Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player
“Writing is part intuition and part trial and error, but mostly it's very hard work.”
“Writing is performative - and while, yes, the words in essence will be there "forever," poems are often about ecstatic moments rather than trying to pin down a particular truth of an event.”
“Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of magic.”
“Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions.”
Source: Cosmos
“Writing is physical for me. I always have the sense that the words are coming out of my body, not just my mind.”
“Writing is physical work. It's sweaty work. You just can't will yourself to become a good writer. You really have to work at it.”
“Writing is prayer.”
“Writing is praying with me. You know a child would look up at every sentence and say, 'And what shall I say next?' That is just what I do; I ask Him that at every line He would give me not merely thoughts and power, but also every word, even the very rhymes.”
“Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves.”
“Writing is primarily a sensuous and creative expression of life.”
Source: Harvest song: collected essays and stories
“Writing is probably one-fifth coming up with the stuff, and four-fifths self-editing again and again and again.”
“Writing is pure bliss! Seeing how the words flow from my hand onto paper and shape each chapter is mesmerizing”
Source: Journey to Your Self - How to Heal from Trauma: Written by Someone Who Did
“Writing is purity. It is the human condition to share thoughts, feelings, experiences.”
“Writing is putting one's obsessions in order.”
“Writing is really a way of thinking--not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.”
“Writing is really freeing because it's the only part of the process where it's just you and the characters and you are by yourself in a room and you can just hash it out. There are no limitations.”
“Writing is really just a matter of writing a lot, writing consistently and having faith that you'll continue to get better and better. Sometimes, people think that if they don't display great talent and have some success right away, they won't succeed. But writing is about struggling through and learning and finding out what it is about writing itself that you really love.”
“Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else is just technical.”
Source: Walking on Water: Reading, Writing and Revolution
“Writing is really wonderful art. A lot of this is discovery. A lot of things are lying around waiting to be discovered and that's our job as writers is to just notice them and bring them to life.”
“Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.”
Source: Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction
“Writing is rewriting what you have rewritten.”
“Writing is rewriting. A writer must learn to deepen characters, trim writing, intensify scenes. To fall in love with the first draft to the point where one cannot change it is to greatly enhance the prospects of never publishing.”
“Writing is romancing your heart. To hold a pen is to demystify the mystery wrapped in exoticism to lead the allured eyes to something so real, that you tremble in your deeps....”
“Writing is saying to no one and to everyone the things it is not possible to say to someone.”
Source: The Faraway Nearby
“Writing is secondary speech and speech is secondary being. This Gaudà knew: that creation must be born of theophany (communion with the silence beneath beings and identities).”
Source: The Sea Once Swallowed Me: A Memoir of Love, Solitude, and the Limits of Language
“Writing is seduction.”
Source: On Writing
“Writing is seduction. Good talk is part of seduction. If not so, why do so many couples who start the evening at dinner wind up in bed?”
Source: On writing: a memoir of the craft
“Writing is seeing. It is paying attention.”
“Writing is self employment, so you can make your own schedule.”
“Writing is self-reinforcing. Don't make a fetish out of it, and don't surrender to the myth of the garret, or the myth of the chained muse. It's like playing the guitar, or practicing taekwondo, or having sex. The more you do, the better you get. The better you get, the better it feels. The better it feels, the more you want to do.”
“Writing is self-taught. Consulting other people only teaches you to depend on their reactions, which may or may not be legitimate. Quit looking for approval ... Learn to evaluate your own work with a dispassionate eye ... the lessons you acquire will be all the more valuable because you've mastered your craft from within.”
“Writing is sharing. You share what you have. Great writers have more to share”
Source: Pearls Of Eternity
“Writing is show business for shy people.”
“Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it.”
“Writing is simple. First you have to make sure you have plenty of paper... sharp pencils... typewriter ribbon. Then put your belly up to the desk... roll a sheet of paper into the typewriter... and stare at it until beads of blood appear on your forehead.”
“Writing is simply one thought after another dying upon the one before.”
“Writing is so difficult that I feel that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter.”
“Writing is so fulfilling and gratifying and each book I consider another child. But it is a slow, difficult, and even lonely path to success, so do not do it for money. Do it because you want to help others by telling your story or because you have a compelling story that you need to get out there and will love telling.”
Source: Home
“Writing is so hard. And then, sometimes, it is so bewilderingly easy.”
“Writing is so hard. Why would you be a writer if you weren't really good at it? If you could be anything else, why would you be a writer?”
“Writing is so hard.... The first draft writing is so hard that sometimes in the beginning, before the work itself takes over, carrying you on its flood, you must give yourself rewards. "When I write this chapter, I can call my boyfriend." "When I finish one page more, I can get an ice cream cone." "If I write this section, I'll find a check in the mail."”
“Writing is so wrapped up in ego, but with math one is just trying to get it right, although you're often wrong. I think math helped me become a good critic of myself, come at writing a little less personally.”