W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Writing: When Rock Around the Clock was shown in the cinemas in 1956, teenagers got so excited by the music that there was dancing in the aisles. Imagine that you are a newspaper reporter who has just been to see the film. Write your 'story' for tomorrow's paper.”
“Writing when you are already very old means you have lived through the endings of so many things, you are more aware of the shape life takes. You begin to know Death, you've been close to it. But youth can barely imagine the end of this journey.”
“Writing will be like a journey, every word a footstep that takes me further into undiscovered land.”
“Writing will never be perfect in a poet's eye that is why we need people's criticism good or bad, whether or not it gives a positive or negative frame to our work. We are first at hand to fight against the real and the normal in our writing as our outspoken, brimming voice bring truths to light so vividly and intensely for mass consumption that we so long for in our hearts. When the poet, not jubilant, neither spirited, allows his mind to quiet, allows the survival of and realises that all figures of speech matters; when God has witnessed the culmination of his progress; when the writer is almost in a hypnotic stance. Then the poet cannot stop himself when he is in the right place, then he can guess at the intensity, the prowess of his pen, his prolific writing and the intelligence behind his words becomes a self portrait kind of like what Vincent van Gogh used to do when he was depressed and lonely, fighting against the feelings of isolation and rejection by the establishment.”
Source: Feeding The Beasts
“Writing with other people is the only way I ever really work. In some ways it's great because it's helpful to someone pull you out of the loop.”
“Writing with privacy is paramount. You must feel free to admit to yourself your deepest, darkest secrets and true feelings.”
“Writing with voice is writing into which someone has breathed. It has that fluency, rhythm, and liveliness that exist naturally in the speech of most people when they are enjoying a conversation...Writing with real voice has the power to make you pay attention and understand --the words go deep.”
“Writing with you is the only thing that keeps me alive.”
“Writing without making mistakes is like vomiting hot air.”
“Writing without revising is the literary equivalent of waltzing gaily out of the house in your underwear.”
“Writing without words? Its not easy, I tell you! I stab the pen into my heart and let the blood flow. No more ink, no more words, no more b.s. Just me.”
“Writing your book is not the end all of your strategy. It is a powerful catalyst that will push you to the top of your game. You see, something magical happens when you write your book and this is the best place to mention it because a sale happens when your book is complete. You sell yourself on the idea that you are more than you previously believed yourself to be. You get to experience that “I did it” moment where your mind releases these wonderful stimulators that make you feel awesome. You see yourself in a different way and this opens up a greater opportunity for accomplishment, achievement, and success.”
Source: Book Power: A Platform for Writing, Branding, Positioning & Publishing
“Writing your own blog platform is like roasting your own coffee: it's impractical and you probably shouldn't do it, but for people who really, truly care about it, it's worthwhile to them for their own personal priorities that sound crazy to everyone else. Well, I write my own blog platform and I roast my own coffee.”
“Writing your own jokes, you just kind of keep working on something until you think it might work, and then you try it out and hope for the best.”
“Writing your own story around the same ideas is not plagiarism; at worst, it's being unoriginal.”
“Writing your thoughts in a journal helps a lot, when you don't find the right people to talk to.”
“Writing! The activity for which the only adequate bribe is the possibility of suicide, one day.”
Source: Wild Nights!: Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway
“Writing's a lot like cooking. Sometimes the cake won't rise, no matter what you do, and every now and again the cake tastes better than you ever could have dreamed it would.”
Source: Selections from Fragile Things, Volume One: 4 Short Fictions and Wonders
“Writing's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.”
Source: On Writing
“Writing's deeper function is to serve as a way to find shapes and names for the world as you have come to know it; to find on paper what you know and feel.”
Source: Writing Your Way
“Writing's funny, it's like walking down a hall in the dark looking for the light switch, and suddenly you find it, flip it on, and then you discover the hallway you passed through is papered with the novel you've written.”
“Writing's just as natural to me as getting up and cooking breakfast.”
“Writing's not always a pleasure to me, but if I'm not writing every other pleasure loses its savour.”
“Writing's not precious to me. It's not a thing that requires specific environment. You know, it's my job. Just like anybody with a job, you have to do your job when you don't feel like it, regardless of how good or bad the conditions are, regardless of how good or bad you might feel on any particular day.”
“Writing's still the most difficult job I've ever had - but it's worth it.”
“Writing, acting, music, comedy. A deep love of literature and books. Thank God for all the artists who've helped me.”
Source: Love All the People (New Edition)
“Writing, and especially writing a novel, where you get to sit in a room by yourself with either a pen and a paper or a computer for a couple of years, is a very solitary occupation. You can read sales figures - a hundred thousand books sold, half a million books sold - but they are just numbers.”
“Writing, as I experience it, means wringing out the heart/mind until it stops lying.”
Source: Telegraph Avenue then
“Writing, at its best and truest, can offer solace and salvation for both readers and writers.”
“Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.”
Source: Dear Papa, Dear Hotch: The Correspondence of Ernest Hemingway and A.E. Hotchner
“Writing, at its heart, is a solitary pursuit, designed to make people depressoids, drug addicts, misanthropes, and antisocial weirdos.”
Source: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)
“Writing, at least a craft and at its best an art, aspiring to the unique, is the most difficult to learn.”
“Writing, basically breaks down to relationships between people and that is what you write about.”
“Writing, even though it's hard work, is really a joy when you get these characters to come alive. It's hard to trace where they come from. I can't say that I am sitting here one night at nine o'clock and that a character occurs to me. The magic for me happens at the typewriter.”
“Writing, for me, has to do with liberty of mind. The liberty to intuit, assess, be surprised, even to be ashamed and reconsider. To feel the integrity and generosity of words, but also their disruptive violence and volatility. To even begin to do them justice requires a radical letting go and stringent attention. I was interested in following that impulse toward liberty.”
“Writing, for me, is a combination of objective and subjective approach. You take an objective approach at times to get you through things, and you take a subjective approach at other times, and that allows you to find an emotional experience for the audience.”
“Writing, for me, is a little like wood carving. You find the lump of tree (the big central theme that gets you started), and you start cutting the shape that you think you want it to be. But you find, if you do it right, that the wood has a grain of its own (characters develop and present new insights, concentrated thinking about the story opens new avenues). If you're sensible, you work with the grain and, if you come across a knot hole, you incorporate that into the design. This is not the same as 'making it up as you go along'; it's a very careful process of control.”
“Writing, for me, is a search for God.”
“Writing, for me, is always a dance between the critical part of my brain and the subconscious.”
“Writing, for me, is the best occupation I can think of, and there is nothing in the world I would rather do.”
“Writing, for me, means humility. It’s a process that involves fear and doubt, especially if you’re writing honestly.”
“Writing, I explained, was mainly an attempt to out-argue one's past; to present events in such a light that battles lost in life were either won on paper or held to a draw.”
Source: Ackroyd
“Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.”
“Writing, Im convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.”
“Writing, in any sense that matters, cannot be taught. It can only be learned by each separate one of us in his own way, by the use of his own powers of imagination and perception, the ability to learn the lessons he has set for himself.”
Source: Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings
“Writing, in its physical, graphic form, is an inseparable suturing of the visual and the verbal, the “imagetext” incarnate”
Source: Picture Theory: Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation
“Writing, like any art, is a continuing process of discovering the infinite possibilities of Life.”
“Writing, like drawing is an art, and whatever conveys the meaning is justified.”
“writing, like living, is lonely work.”
Source: The Garden of Eden
“Writing, madam, is a mechanic part of wit. A gentleman should never go beyond a song or a billet.”