W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic. Writing is creating something out of nothing, is opening doors to other lands.
Writing gives you power to shape your own world when the real one hurts too much. To stop writing would kill me. I'd never be able to walk through a bookstore without fingering the spines with longing, wondering at the lengthy editorial process that got these titles on shelves and reminiscing about my own. And I'd spend the rest of life curdling with jealousy every time someone like Emmy Cho gets a book deal, every time I learn that some young up-and-comer is living the life I should be living.
Writing has formed the core of my identity since I was a child. After Dad died, after Mom withdrew into herself, and after Rory decided to forge a life without me, writing gave me a reason to stay alive. And as miserable as it makes me, I'll cling to that magic for as long as I live.”
Source: Yellowface
“Writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for wordlessness.”
“Writing is the crack through which you can crawl into a bigger world, into your wild mind.”
Source: Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life
“Writing is the dancing of words, sometimes it is beautiful and meaningful, sometimes it is not.”
“Writing is the delicate, difficult, and dangerous means of succeeding in avowing the unavowable.”
“Writing is the dragon that lives underneath my floorboards. The one I incessantly feed for fear it may turn and devour my ass. Writing is the friend who doesn't return my phone calls; the itch I'm unable to scratch; a dinner invitation from a cannibal; elevator music for a narcoleptic. Writing is the hope of lifting all boats by pissing in the ocean. Writing isn't something that makes me happy like a good cup of coffee. It's just something I do because not writing, as I've found, is so much worse.”
“Writing is the easiest thing in the world.... Just try it sometime. I sit up with a pipe in my mouth and a board on my knees and I scribble away.”
“Writing is the emotional morphine.”
“Writing is the enjoyable part of writing. It's all the rest that drives you mad.”
Source: Making Short Films: The Complete Guide from Script to Screen
“Writing is the euphoric epiphany that lets us capture both the pale day and the dream-soaked night.”
“Writing is the flip side of sex - it's good only when it's over.”
“Writing is the geometry of the soul.”
“Writing is the great invention of the world.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46
“Writing is the great skill, the creative skill. The acting is more an interpretative skill. And the thrill for me is the moment when I think of something. And then the challenge is how to get that funny idea to work in terms of the structure and that kind of thing, which is - and that's what I really love doing.”
“Writing is the greatest thing about really good sitcoms.”
“Writing is the greatest thing that can happen to a human being. It's the best.”
“Writing is the hammer & chisel that breaks down the established way of thinking. A concrete event, then an abstraction. An image, then a thought. Finally, writing builds another establishment with the fragments.”
Source: Claiming Breath
“Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.”
“Writing is the hardest work in the world not involving heavy lifting.”
“Writing is the litmus paper of thoughtthe very center of schooling.”
“writing is the loneliest job in the world. There's always that frustrating chasm to bridge between the concept and the writing of it. We're a harassed tribe, we writers.”
“Writing is the lonely sport of sad sacks.”
“Writing is the main gig and teaching and performing are sidelines, an excuse for not writing more. Working on a novel and on an opera make me seriously want to retire and find a volunteer job as a docent at the zoo explaining to schoolchildren where frogs go in the winter.”
“Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.”
“writing is the most personal form of prayer.”
Source: Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self
“Writing is the most powerful weapon on earth.It can change minds and stir souls.”
Source: Driven By Love
“Writing is the most solitary of arts.”
Source: The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art
“Writing is the most unselfish act one can do.”
“Writing is the new reading”
Source: Diary of a Teenage Murderer
“Writing is the one art form that really should allow you to hang yourself.”
“Writing is the only art form where a good number of the artists make a slice of their living criticizing one another in print, in public.”
“Writing is the only place I can be myself and not feel judged.”
“Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.”
“Writing is the only thing I've ever done with persistence, except for being married.”
“Writing is the only thing in my life that doesn't get easier. It just doesn't.”
“Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.”
“Writing is the only trade I know of in which sniveling confessions of extreme incompetence are taken as credentials probative of powers to astound the multitude.”
“Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.”
“Writing is the only way I know to demand justice from an uncaring universe.”
“Writing is the only way to run away from home, without ever leaving.”
“Writing is the painting of the voice.”
Source: A Philosophical Dictionary: From the French
“Writing is the perfect balance between self-confidence and self-doubt, with a bit of self-delusion thrown in.”
“Writing is the process by which you explain to yourself what happened to you.”
“Writing is the process in which I cry through my fingers.”
Source: Petals of Rain: a Mother's Memoir
“Writing is the process of asking the next logical question.”
“Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful distractions - adultery, alcohol and acedia, all of which aided our writing fathers - none can equal the Internet.”
“Writing is the product of a deeply disturbed psyche, and by no means therapeutic.”
“writing is the profound pleasure and being read the superficial.”
Source: A Writer's Diary
“Writing is the rock on which everything is built.”
“Writing is the same as music. It’s in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release it. And what you don’t play is as important as what you do say.”