W Quotes
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“Writing is so... I don't know, it's such a practice, and I feel very unpracticed in it, because I'm not doing it every day. And I really need to do it every day. In other words, you spend all this time writing a movie, and then you stop, and then you're shooting the movie, and then you're cutting, and a year and a half goes by, because in the editing room, you're not writing.”
“Writing is solitary, so I love going out once in a while and meeting my readers. I'll often hang with them after a signing for some beers. They're invariably bright!”
“Writing is something I took up rather than anything I had an inclination toward. I like acting -delivering someone else's message - but writing is more of an accomplishment.”
“Writing is something Ive always done on the side. I thought that no one would be interested, so I kept it to myself.”
“Writing is something that I am ever driven to do, and concerning which I am never satisfied.”
“Writing is something that I practice at every day to get better at.”
“Writing is something that I've always loved. That stems from my love of being a reader.”
“Writing is something that you can learn only by doing. To become a writer, you need an imagination, which you clearly have. You need to read books, which you clearly do. And you need to write, which you don't yet do, but should.”
Source: The Serpent King
“Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult than anything else that I have ever done.”
Source: Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961
“Writing is something that you don't know how to do. You sit down and it's something that happens, or it may not happen. So, how can you teach anybody how to write? It's beyond me, because you yourself don't even know if you're going to be able to. I'm always worried, well, you know, every time I go upstairs with my wine bottle. Sometimes I'll sit at that typewriter for fifteen minutes, you know. I don't go up there to write. The typewriter's up there. If it doesn't start moving, I say, well this could be the night that I hit the dust.”
“Writing is something warm and dependable to snuggle up to when everything else is in flux. It's a little secret that you carry with you in public - the knowledge that you alone have the ability to escape to a wonderland where you can make anything happen.”
Source: The 29 most common writing mistakes and how to avoid them
“Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it."
[Thoughts from Places: The Tour, Nerdfighteria Wiki, January 17, 2012]”
“Writing is something you do alone. It's a profession for introverts who wanna tell you a story but don't wanna make eye contact while telling it”
“Writing is something you Do and not discuss. Talk is cheap, wishes are free and a fool is included with every purchase. So spend your time wisely.”
“Writing is sort of putting a puzzle together halfway. Then, performing it has always been the completion of it. Once that happens, I'm feeling verbally communal with other people. It's out there and I feel so much better about it.”
“Writing is still a bit of a miracle - the whole process: I see the world, filter the world, write down abstract squiggles on a page which somebody is then able to connect with. I'm still amazed by it and think I always will be.”
“Writing is still like heaving bricks over a wall.”
Source: The question of things happening
“Writing is still my main career, but I would love, for instance, to serve in the New York State Assembly.”
“Writing is still on my slate.”
“Writing is storytelling and all of us are authors, not just of words but of reality. You are the author of your life, so go out and live! Then never quit writing about it!”
“Writing is storytelling. No matter how you slice it, you're saying, 'Once upon a time.' That's what writing is all about.”
“Writing is such a damn lonely sickness.”
Source: Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel
“Writing is such a lonely work that I try to keep myself cheered up.”
Source: On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
“Writing is such a powerful tool. I believe everyone should be writing.”
“Writing is such a singular and lonely occupation. And it's interesting; all of the work that you create is so singular.”
“Writing is such a solitary occupation that it takes a long time to build up a group of professional peers with whom you genuinely identify.”
“Writing is such a solitary thing, so its nice, when Im discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction.”
“Writing is such a strange, utterly mysterious process. First, there was nothing; then, suddenly, there was something. I don't know where thoughts are born. Where the hell does it come from? I don't know. I really don't know.”
“Writing is such a strangely and radically private act, and yet its purpose is this great sense of connection and community. I mean, I wanted people to love the book. And the only way to get them to love it is to try to make it good for them. So of course the audience has to be considered.”
“Writing is such a weird emotional thing. It's hard. If you sit down with a plan to write something, it's going to be harder.”
“Writing is such an industry now. In many ways, that's a good thing, in that it removes all the muse-like mystique and makes it a plain old job, accessible to everyone. But with industry comes jargon. I was aware that jargon was starting to fill those growing shelves of Writer's Self Help books, not to mention the blogosphere. Wherever I looked, the writing of a script was being reduced to A, B, C plots, Text and Subtext, Three Act Structure and blah, blah, blah. And I'd think, that's not what writing is! Writing's inside your head! It's thinking! It's every hour of the day, every day of your life, a constant storm of pictures and voices and sometimes, if you're very, very lucky, insight.”
Source: Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale
“Writing is such lonely work that I try to keep myself cheered up. If something strikes me as funny in the act of writing, I throw it in just to amuse myself. If I think it's funny I assume a few other people will find it funny, and that seems to me to be a good day's work.”
“Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.”
Source: The Stories of Ray Bradbury
“Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.”
“Writing is taking a risk, and it is actually fighting invisible and invincible enemies. They are over-confidence, stupidity, expectation and narcissism.”
“Writing is that strange calling which weighs so heavily on the soul yet brings much delight in its achievement.”
“Writing is the ability to ask yourself questions and wait for the answers.”
Source: Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting
“Writing is the ability to speak without saying a word.”
Source: i am What You see
“Writing is the act of creation. Put words on page. Words to sentences, sentences to paragraphs, paragraphs to 7-book epic fantasy cycles with books so heavy you could choke a hippo. But don't give writing too much power, either. A wizard controls his magic; it doesn't control him. Push aside lofty notions and embrace the workmanlike aesthetic. Hammers above magic wands; nails above eye-of-newt. The magic will return when you're done. The magic is what you did, not what you're doing.”
“Writing is the act of discovery.”
Source: Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
“Writing is the act of saying "I," of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying "listen to me, see it my way, change your mind."”
Source: Joan Didion: Essays & Conversations
“Writing is the action of thinking, just as drawing is the action of seeing and composing music is the action of hearing.”
Source: Me
“Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.”
“Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.”
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
“Writing is the art of weaving silence into words, turning the quietest thoughts into the loudest echoes.”
Source: Calculus Made Easy
“Writing is the basis of all, because creating something that didn't even exist before is like taking an empty canvass. It is a wonderful thing to make something out of nothing. You've got an empty page, you've got an idea, and then you start typing and that is the most thrilling thing of all. And then if it becomes a movie or something else that's a plus, but the original writing of it is what's very exciting.”
“Writing is the beast unto itself.”
“Writing is the best anti-depressant.”
“Writing...is the best, the only way I know to investigate myself, to figure out what I think and how I feel and what matters right now.”
“Writing is the best way to talk without being interrupted.”