W Quotes
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“Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in peoples minds with emotion.”
“Writing, not dancing, is the chosen form of expression of the white man.”
Source: Dancing: The Pleasure, Power, and Art of Movement
“Writing, of course, it's not all in your head. Not talking about the 'manual' act of typing here either, but that, when your fiction's really working, your whole body's involved, and then some.”
“Writing, or at least good writing, is an outgrowth of that urge to use language to communicate complex ideas and experiences between people. And that's true whether you're reading Shakespeare or bad vampire fiction-reading is always an act of empathy. It's always an imagining of what it's like to be someone else.”
“Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me.”
“Writing, painting, singing -- it cannot stop everything. Cannot halt death in its tracks. But perhaps it can make the pause between death's footsteps sound and look and feel beautiful, can make the space of waiting a place where you can linger without as much fear. For we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey there between footsteps makes up our lives.”
Source: Reached
“Writing, playing, composing, painting, reading, listening, looking-all require that we submit to being swept away by Eros, to a transformation of self of the kind that happens when we fall in love.”
Source: Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art
“Writing, printing, and the Internet give a false sense of security about the permanence of culture.”
Source: Dark Age Ahead
“Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying.”
“Writing, real writing, should leave a small sweet bruise somewhere on the writer . . . and on the reader.”
“Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world.”
“Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing & love me for my writing. It is also much more: a way of ordering and reordering the chaos of experience.”
“Writing, therefore, is also an act of courage. How much easier is it to lead an unexamined life than to confront yourself on the page? How much easier is it to surrended to materialism or cynicism or to a hundred other ways of life that are, in fact, ways to hide from life and from our fears. When we write, we resist the facile seduction of theses simpler roads. We insist on finding out and declaring the truths that we find, and we dare to out those truths on the page.”
“Writing, to be memorable, must be done in a state of impassioned serenity.”
Source: A Kind of Magic
“Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.”
“Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.”
“Writing-and this is the big secret-wants to be written. Writing loves a writer the way God loves a true devotee. Writing will fill your heart if you let it. It will fill your pages and help to fill your life.”
Source: The Writer's Life: Insights from The Right to Write
“Writing. Love is writing.”
Source: Hermione
“Writing... is an act of faith: I believe it's also an act of hope, the hope that things can get better than they are.”
“Writing: I certainly do rewrite my central myth in every book, and would never read or trust any writer who did not also do so.”
“Writingis an art; and artistsare human beings. As a human being stands, so a human being is”
“Writings are thoughts in a defined moment.”
“Writings like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.”
“Writings may be compared to wine. Sense is the strength, but wit the flavor.”
Source: The Works of Laurence Sterne, A. M.: A sentimental journey through France and Italy. The Koran: or, The life, character and sentiments of Tria Juncta in Uno. A political romance
“Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters.”
“Writings survive the years; it is by writings that you know Agamemnon, and those who fought for or against him.
[Lat., Scripta ferunt annos; scriptis Agamemnona nosti,
Et quisquis contra vel simul arma tulit.]”
“Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar.”
“Written by a woman automatically is better.”
“Written communication is a tremendous help for me, and so when electronic mail was invented in '71, I got very excited about it, thinking well, gee, the deaf community could really use this, or the hard of hearing community as well.”
“Written forms obscure our view of language. They are not so much a garment as a disguise.”
“Written history may, in the course of its narrative, use some of the laws established by the various sciences, but its own task remains that of relating the essential sequence of historical action and, qua history, to tell what happened, not why.”
Source: The New Psychohistory
“WRITTEN IN PENCIL IN THE SEALED RAILWAY-CAR
here in this carload
i am eve
with abel my son
if you see my other son
cain son of man
tell him that i”
“Written in support of abolishing the Corn Laws, it became Elliott's most famous poem. The Peoples Anthem When wilt thou save the people Oh, God of mercy! When? Not kings and lords, but nations! Not thrones and crowns, but men! Flowers of thy heart, of God they are. Let them not pass like weeds, away Their heritage a sunless day! God save the people! When wilt thou save the people? Oh, God of mercy! When? The people Lord the people! Not thrones and crowns, but men! God save the people! Thine they are, Thy children, as thy angels fair, Save them from bondage and despair. God save the people!”
“Written in the histories of the world are the laws of man, and the wars fought to defend those laws.
Another war also exists, written in the histories of time.
A war fought, to defend the soul's of man...”
Source: Hidden Battles
“Written kisses don't reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.”
Source: I am a memory come alive: autobiographical writings
“Written kisses never arrive at their destination; the ghosts drink them up along the way.”
Source: Letters to Milena
“Written language must be considered as a particular psychic reality. The book is permanent; it is an object in your field of vision. It speaks to you with a monotonous authority which even its author would not have. You are fairly obliged to read what is written.”
“Written laws are formulas in which we endeavor to express as concisely as possible that which, under such or such determined circumstances, natural justice demands.”
“Written laws are like spiders' webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.”
“Written on her tombstone: "I told you I was sick.”
“Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulations of a lifetime gather there. In places the palimpsest is so heavily worked that the letters feel like Braille. I like to keep my body rolled up away from prying eyes, never unfold too much, or tell the whole story. I didn't know that Louise would have reading hands. She has translated me into her own book.”
Source: Written On The Body
“Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights; the accumulations of a lifetime gather there”
Source: The Passion
“Written on the mirror, revealed by the steam, were the words, I love you, Jane.”
Source: J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 5-8
“Written over the gate here are the words 'Leave every hope behind, ye who enter.' Only think what a relief that is! For what is hope? A form of moral responsibility. Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.”
“Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.”
“Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.”
Source: The Theater and Its Double
“Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us.”
Source: The Theater and Its Double
“Written reports stifle creativity.”
“Written soul is called poetry”
“Written symbols are even more artificial or conventional than spoken; they cannot be picked up in accidental intercourse with others. In addition, the written form tends to select and record matters which are comparatively foreign to everyday life.”
Source: Democracy And Education