W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and nonfiction. And even there, who can be sure?”
“Writing is your soul on paper”
“Writing is, after all, a gesture towards other people, giving something to others. And so it's not a completely hermetic exercise. It's really an opening up.”
“Writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger.”
“Writing is.... being able to take something whole and fiercely alive that exists inside you in some unknowable combination of thought, feeling, physicality, and spirit, and to then store it like a genie in tense, tiny black symbols on a calm white page. If the wrong reader comes across the words, they will remain just words. But for the right readers, your vision blooms off the page and is absorbed into their minds like smoke, where it will re-form, whole and alive, fully adapted to its new environment.”
“Writing is?waiting for the word that may not be there until next Tuesday.”
“Writing isn't a choice. It's a calling. So answer the damn phone already!”
“Writing isn't about creating perfect characters. There's no such thing. It's about creating characters that are real; flawed-- yet beautiful, in that they know they need another person. Needing someone else doesn't make them weak; if they believed all they needed was them self, they would be. A strong heroine isn't afraid to admit that a best friend, or soul mate, is exactly what they need at one moment or another. A strong heroine never stands alone. They stand tall; they believe in who they are. They are perfect in every human flaw, because as humans we are flawed. And in every flaw, I see the perfection of their souls. Writers breath life into simple words and create beings--flaws and all.”
“Writing isn't difficult. Writing well is difficult. What is most difficult is being with the interior experience that manifests as resistance to writing.”
Source: Liquid Me: Poetry and Prose
“Writing isn't just about putting words on a page; it’s about capturing the soul of a thought before it escapes.”
“Writing isn't only about a completed piece of work.
It’s about the writer you’re becoming while creating.”
Source: The Limbo Tree
“Writing isn't a source of pain. It's psychic chemotherapy. It reduces your psychological tumors and relieves your pain.”
Source: Odd Thomas: An Odd Thomas Novel
“Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it's about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well. It's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.”
“Writing isn't about the destination-writing is the journey that transforms the soul and gives meaning to all else.”
“Writing isn't generally a lucrative source of income; only a few, exceptional writers reach the income levels associated with the best-sellers. Rather, most of us write because we can make a modest living, or even supplement our day jobs, doing something about which we feel passionately. Even at the worst of times, when nothing goes right, when the prose is clumsy and the ideas feel stale, at least we're doing something that we genuinely love. There's no other reason to work this hard, except that love.”
Source: Conceiving the Heavens: Creating the Science Fiction Novel
“Writing isn't hard - no harder than ditch digging.”
“Writing isn't just a job that stops at six thirty... It's a mad, sexy, sad, scary, ruthless, joyful, and utterly, utterly personal thing. There's not the writer and then me; there's just me. All of my life connects to the writing. All of it.”
“Writing isn't just on the page; it's voices in the reader's head. Read what you write out loud to someone-anyone-and you will catch all kinds of things.”
“Writing isn't letters on paper. It's communication. It's memory.”
Source: Warm Bodies: A Novel
“Writing isn't something I do, writing is something that I am. I am writing - it's just an expression of me.”
Source: Wishes Fulfilled: Mastering the Art of Manifesting
“Writing isn’t a career choice. It’s self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off.”
“Writing:
It starts at the keyboard,
and it ends at the far corners of the universe. --Paako”
Source: Constellation Chronicles: The Lost Civilization of Aries
“Writing itself does not know what it looks like while one is doing it, only when it's finished.”
“Writing itself is a bad enough trade, rightly held up to ridicule and contempt by the greater part of mankind, and especially by those who do real work, plowing, riding, sailing”
Source: The Silence of the Sea, and Other Essays
“Writing itself is one of the great, free human activities. There is scope for individuality, and elation, and discovery. In writing, for the person who follows with trust and forgiveness what occurs to him, the world remains always ready and deep, an inexhaustible environment, with the combined vividness of an actuality and flexibility of a dream. Working back and forth between experience and thought, writers have more than space and time can offer. They have the whole unexplored realm of human vision.”
“Writing itself, if not misunderstood and abused, becomes a way of empowering the writing self. It converts anger and disappointment into deliberate and durable aggression, the writer's main source of energy. It converts sorrow and self-pity into empathy, the writer's main means of relating to otherness. Similarly, his wounded innocence turns into irony, his silliness into wit, his guilt into judgment, his oddness into originality, his perverseness into his stinger.”
“Writing jokes for others is like having babies for someone else. It's sad. Like the woman who gives up her baby but needs to be close so she secretly becomes the maid in the household.”
“Writing journal is for those people who find no interest in living a life of victimhood and limited personal freedom.”
Source: Self-Ignorance Is Your Problem. Self-Awareness Is Your Solution.: Success Is Your Birthright! Life Is Yours and You Are the Pilot of It, Do Something about It.
“Writing just for the hell of it is heaven.”
Source: The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life
“Writing keeps me at my desk, constantly trying to write a perfect sentence. It is a great privilege to make one’s living from writing sentences. The sentence is the greatest invention of civilization. To sit all day long assembling these extraordinary strings of words is a marvelous thing…
For me, a line has to sing before it does anything else. The great thrill is when a sentence that starts out being completely plain suddenly begins to sing, rising far above itself and above any expectation I might have had for it. That’s what keeps me going on those dark December days when I think about how I could be living instead of writing.”
“Writing keeps me at my desk, constantly trying to write a perfect sentence. It is a great privilege to make one's living from writing sentences. The sentence is the greatest invention of civilization. To sit all day long assembling these extraordinary strings of words is a marvelous thing. I couldn't ask for anything better. It's as near to godliness as I can get.”
“Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.”
Source: Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions
“Writing keeps me sane.”
Source: Fiction Foundry Presents: ONE
“Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.”
Source: War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
“Writing let me escape... It let me escape the insistent tug of my family, and its ongoing misery. Sitting in front of the computer, with the screen blank and the cursor blinking, was the best escape I knew. And there was plenty to escape from.”
“Writing lets you step back and think through a problem. Even the angriest rant forces the writer to achieve a degree of thoughtfulness.”
Source: Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
“Writing letters may be an outdated way of communication for many, but they still have value. When letters are no longer objects in downtime but subjects in motion, they become vessels of meaning and carry fragments of the writer’s drive and emotional energy. ("Letter to unknown recipient “)”
“Writing like this is a little like milking a cow: the milk is so rich and delicious, and the cow is so glad you did it.”
“Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.”
“Writing long hand is the last refuge. One needs the time it takes to put pencil to paper and let it run along the ruled line.”
“Writing, long term, is mentally risky but vital culturally and contributes to a non-boring life.”
Source: Not Just a Piece of Cake; Being an Author
“Writing lyrics with your wife does lead to talking about yourselves a lot. But this is not an autobiographical account of my personal marriage. It's almost about the marriage of the band.”
“Writing makes a map, and there is something about a journey that begs to have its passage marked.”
Source: Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest
“Writing makes it even harder than concrete. Writing makes it hard as diamond.”
Source: The Drowning Girl
“Writing makes me happy.”
“Writing makes me hard, like a fisherman, and brown from the heat. Tossing out and reeling in is a job for visionaries and those with calloused hands.”
Source: On Being a Rat and Other Observations
“Writing makes no noise, except groans, and it can be done everywhere, and it is done alone.”
“Writing makes sense when nothing else does. My thoughts need an outlet, jettisoning off to some place. Could it be to a parallel universe or to outer space? Do aliens also write their thoughts in their diaries?”
“Writing makes sense when nothing else does. Our thoughts need an outlet, jettisoning off to some place. Could it be to a parallel universe or to outer space? Do aliens also write their thoughts in their diaries?”
“Writing makes us complete.”