W Quotes
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“Writing this book I am like a man playing the piano with lead balls attached to his knuckles.”
Source: The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857
“Writing this book is an intense experience. I'm writing about an addiction that I suffer from, I'm doing the research, I'm reading about it for hours, writing about it for hours, I should have expected that that extreme daily exposure to my addiction would eventually lead to strong urges to gamble. I should have been prepared! But I wasn't.”
Source: Gambling Addiction: The complete guide to survival, treatment, and recovery from gambling addiction.
“Writing this book required an enormous amount of help from friends. To them goes the credit. I'll take the money.”
Source: All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty
“Writing those books ['Beauty' and 'Style']was really eye-opening, as you realize just how much goes into beauty and fashion, and also how much I've learned over the years. I think both books are essential, as they don't really teach you one particular look that will go out of style next season, but rather tools and tricks you can use over the years.”
“Writing time has to be created.”
Source: You Can Write a Mystery
“Writing to her, I was no longer lonely... I could tolerate anything as long as I had a notepad and a pen and could pour my heart out to her in these letters.”
Source: Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain
“Writing to me is a deeply personal, even a secret function and when the product I turned loose it is cut off from me and I have no sense of its being mine. Consequently criticism doesn't mean anything to me. As a disciplinary matter, it is too late.”
“Writing to me is a voyage, an odyssey, a discovery, because I'm never certain of precisely what I will find.”
“Writing to offer a piece of information or a connection is a great way to demonstrate that you're looking out for the other person. Humans have a tendency to want to reciprocate, so the more you show you're looking out for someone, the more likely that person will begin to keep you in mind as well.”
“Writing to the Washington Post in 2007, two top U.S. generals drew upon their years of command experience to warn of such a slippery slope. “As has happened with every other nation that has tried to engage in a little bit of torture,” the generals wrote, “the abuse spread like wildfire, and every captured prisoner became the key to defusing a potential ticking time bomb. Our soldiers in Iraq confront real ‘ticking time bomb’ situations every day, in the form of improvised explosive devices, and any degree of ‘flexibility’ about torture at the top drops down the chain of command like a stone—the rare exception fast becoming the rule.”
Source: Torture and Impunity: The U.S. Doctrine of Coercive Interrogation
“Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.”
“Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. the illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws you on. What else could? As pathological phenomena go, it doesn't completely wreck your life.”
“Writing two stories [in the Thorn and the Blossom] about the same set of events that were complete stories in themselves, but also added up to a larger story. As I was writing them, I kept going back and forth, because something would happen in one story that would have to be reflected in the other story. And yet the same event would also have to be perceived in different ways by Brendan and Evelyn, because they are different people with their own interpretations.”
“Writing unearths the fragmentary remains of the years lived, to recover those out of a sense of pressing need for to build the loosely knit is not to fall apart in pieces but to form a mosaic that holds them all..”
“Writing, unfortunately, takes last priority for my time but it's the first priority in my heart I wish I had all the time for. Such is reality.”
Source: In Anwar's Care: Reborn Legacy
“Writing used to be my hobby, but now that it's my job, I have no hobby - except watching TV and laying around the pool reading 'U.S. Weekly.' I have tried many hobbies, such as knitting, Pilates, ballet, yoga, and guitar, but none of them have taken.”
“Writing Vampire Erotica is like writing sex scenes for porcupines.”
“Writing was a chimney for my blazing ambitions.”
Source: Journey from the North, Volume 2: Autobiography of Storm Jameson
“Writing was a defeat, it was a humiliation, it was coming face-to-face with yourself and seeing you weren't good enough.”
Source: Min kamp 5
“Writing was a political act and poetry was a cultural weapon.”
“Writing was a spiritual exercise for my father, the only thing he really believed in.”
“Writing was always a laborious thing for me. I never wrote fluently, I never wrote fluidly, there was something very awkward in my writing. But it seemed to me purposely awkward. It's almost as if I made the labor part of writing.”
“Writing was always an aspiration, but I'd kept it a secret even from myself.”
“Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.”
“Writing was her escape and her rescue.”
Source: New City
“Writing was in its origin, the voice of an absent person.”
Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud
“Writing was like digging coal. I sweat blood. The spell is on me.”
“Writing was my companion and stories were my companion when I was bedridden and didn't think I was going to walk again and all of that treacherous stuff. And stories are how you can comfort a child. It's certainly how I comforted my daughter, in good and bad times.”
“Writing was my escape from the overwhelming storm of emotions.”
Source: Ouch! A memoir with a twist…
“Writing was my first occupation, begun at age 23.”
“Writing was my godsend, my treatment, my way of digging myself out of a depressive hole. That’s not an outlet a lot of working-class kids had. But because I’d been exposed to books from an early age, this method came naturally. I’d write lots of poems to expel negative feelings. Though I didn’t show them to anybody—they contained the kind of stuff you’d hesitate to tell even a psychiatrist—they became the seeds for the lyrics that would come to define my career.”
Source: Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath―And Beyond
“Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world.”
“Writing was my route to creative expression, and I needed to write about the things that interested me.”
“Writing was not a childhood dream of mine. I do not recall longing to write as a student. I wasn't sure how to start.”
“Writing was not my medium. I preferred to do video.”
“Writing was the only thing that populated my life and made it magic.”
Source: Writing
“Writing was the soul of everything else ... Wanting to be a writer was wanting to be a person.”
“Writing was what saved the stutterer. It saved him the trouble of speaking.”
Source: Stamerenophobia
“Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.”
“Writing wasn't easy and wasn't fun. It was hard and lonely, and the words seldom just flowed.”
Source: On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction
“Writing wasn't easy to start. After I finally did it, I realized it was the most direct contact possible with the part of myself I thought I had lost, and which I constantly find new things from. Writing also includes the possibility of living many lives as well as living in any time or world possible. I can satisfy my enthusiasm for research, but jump like a calf outside the strict boundaries of science. I can speak about things that are important to me and somebody listens. It's wonderful!”
“Writing well has everything to do with being able to read one's own work with an eye toward the unmet possibilities that are there.”
“Writing well involves walking the path of most resistance. Sitting still, being patient, allowing the lunatic dream to take shape on the page, then the shaping, the pencil on the page, breathing, slowing down, being willing–no, more than willing, being wide open–to press the bruise until it blossoms.”
“Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is having wit, soul, and taste, all together.”
“Writing well is more than mechanics, but it is not less.”
Source: Wordsmithy: Hot Tips for the Writing Life
“Writing well is the best revenge.”
“Writing well isn't just a question of winsome expression, but of having found something big and true to say and having found the right words to say it in, of having seen something large and having found the right words to say it small, small enough to enter an individual mind so that the strong ideas of what the words are saying sound like sweet reason.”
“Writing well means never having to say, 'I guess you had to be there.'”
“Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.”
Source: The Bonesetter's Daughter
“Writing, when it springs from within, is like giving birth, and the child is covered in mucus”
Source: Metamorphosis