All Quotes

Writing was always an aspiration, but I'd kept it a secret even from myself.
‐‐ Kevin Powers

Writing was in my mind from the time I was in high school, but more, the idea that I would be a doctor. I really wanted to be a medical doctor, and I had various schemes: one was to be a psychiatrist, another was tropical medicine.
‐‐ Paul Theroux

Writing was, is, and will always be my favorite job.
‐‐ John Corey Whaley

Writing was like digging coal. I sweat blood. The spell is on me.
‐‐ Zane Grey

Writing was my first occupation, begun at age 23.
‐‐ Johanna Lindsey

Writing was my route to creative expression, and I needed to write about the things that interested me.
‐‐ Ashwin Sanghi

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.
‐‐ John Grisham

Writing was something I always as a kid thought would be fabulous and glamorous to be a writer.
‐‐ Ann Leckie

Writing was something I always liked, but it wasn't a career until I was laid off from my executive position in my 30s. I started a website because I was bored, unemployed and angry.
‐‐ Jen Lancaster

Writing was something I have always been interested in. I've grown up in a household full of books, with both my parents English teachers and very booky.
‐‐ Alexandra Adornetto

Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.
‐‐ Ted Dekker

Writing 'We Are Never Getting Back Together' was one of the most hilarious experiences I have ever had in the studio because it just happened so naturally.
‐‐ Taylor Swift

Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.
‐‐ Laurence Sterne

Writing 'when you find me,' it really exposed me to a way of putting together a story I hadn't thought of.
‐‐ Bryce Dallas Howard

Writing will remain a passion project.
‐‐ Rory Kinnear

Writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was a fun exercise in mixing just the right amount of the Bard with just the right amount of everyone's favorite galaxy far, far away.
‐‐ Ian Doescher

Writing-wise, I like to have a lot of things on the burners at once, because when I hit a wall, I like to move on to the thing I haven't hit a wall on.
‐‐ Zoe Kazan

Writing-wise, I started when I was 17. Whatever was bothering me, I could just write about it in a song. I was in the west suburbs of Chicago, then I moved an hour south, and then I went to school up on the South Side - Saint Xavier, though I was at Purdue for a second before I dropped out.
‐‐ Kiiara

Writing with you is the only thing that keeps me alive.
‐‐ David Hackworth

Writing, yeah. Me and my friend Scott Bloom just finished the first rough draft of a script. It's taken us three years to do, but we finally got a first draft. And we'll see whatever happens with that.
‐‐ Ethan Suplee

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.
‐‐ Aziz Ansari

Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters.
‐‐ Jacques Lacan

Written and directed by French showman Georges Melies, 'Le Voyage' features one of the most indelible images in cinema history: the wounded Man in the Moon bleeding like a particularly runny Brie, grimacing in pain with a space capsule protruding from his right eye.
‐‐ Kage Baker

Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar.
‐‐ John Ciardi

Written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Donald Margulies and directed by Sundance nominee James Ponsoldt, 'The End of the Tour' is a terrific film, among the year's best with its two-man tarantella of wall-to-wall talk - and I watched it through my fingers as though it were Mad Max.
‐‐ Steve Erickson

Written by the ancient Chinese philosopher of the same name, the 'Zhuangzi' is one long perplexing puzzle of a rambling collection of enigmatic short stories. It's a strange feeling to laugh at a joke written by someone in the 4th century B.C.
‐‐ Patrick Stump

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.
‐‐ Vint Cerf

Written in 1895, Alfred Nobel's will endowed prizes for scientific research in chemistry, physics, and medicine. At that time, these fields were narrowly defined, and researchers were often classically trained in only one discipline. In the late 19th century, knowledge of science was not a requisite for success in other walks of life.
‐‐ Peter Agre

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.
‐‐ Anacharsis

Written pages are something that can be returned to, reclaimed, and when they are marvelous, never lose their power.
‐‐ James Salter

Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.
‐‐ Adrian Mitchell

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
‐‐ Antonin Artaud

Written reports stifle creativity.
‐‐ Ross Perot

Wrong believing puts people in a prison. Even though there are no physical shackles, wrong believing causes its inmates to behave as though they were incarcerated in a maximum-security penitentiary.
‐‐ Joseph Prince

Wrong is for other people.
‐‐ Fanny Brice

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.
‐‐ Theodor Adorno

Wrongful convictions happen every week in every state in this country. And they happen for all the same reasons. Sloppy police work. Eyewitness identification is the most - is the worst type almost. Because it's wrong about half the time. Think about that.
‐‐ John Grisham

Wrought upon at length, you may say, by an enthusiasm and frenzy that could brook no control - I burst the tyrant bands, which held my sex in awe, and clandestinely, or by stealth, grasped an opportunity, which custom and the world seemed to deny, as a natural privilege.
‐‐ Deborah Sampson

WTO is not the forum for labour standards. Next, the U.S. will argue the time zone difference is an unfair competitive advantage enjoyed by India that enables our software engineers to work while the Americans sleep.
‐‐ Jairam Ramesh

Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.
‐‐ Jet Li

Wuxia is a fantasy world exists in everyone's mind.
‐‐ Zhang Yimou

WWE asked me to be in the Hall of Fame, and I turned it down. You know why? They put Pete Rose in the wrestling Hall of Fame. This guy can't even get into his own Hall of Fame.
‐‐ Mr. T

WWE is a space where I thrived, and I loved, and I still do. I love connecting with an audience; that is the greatest thing about going back to WWE.
‐‐ Dwayne Johnson

WWI is a romantic war, in all senses of the word. An entire generation of men and women left the comforts of Edwardian life to travel bravely, and sometimes even jauntily, to almost certain death. At the very least, any story or novel about WWI is about innocence shattered in the face of experience.
‐‐ Anita Shreve

Wyndham Lewis is basically a pessimist, thinking of human beings as doomed animals or determinist machines. His theory of satire is based on this view, and he finds plenty of evidence to support it in contemporary practice.
‐‐ Louis MacNeice

Wyndham's is a beautiful old theatre. The sensation on the stage isn't as different as you might think from the Royal Court.
‐‐ Sophie Thompson

Wynton and Christopher were really great experiences for me because they are both very gifted artists.
‐‐ Kathleen Battle

Wynton told us that Miles sold out, just wanted to make more money, just wanted to sell more records. I don't believe that Miles sold out but I'm not in a position to say.
‐‐ Ken Burns

Wyoming is a special place: Where our farmers and ranchers rise before dawn and work until night to feed our nation. Where our coal miners and oil field workers produce the energy that powers America's homes and businesses, and where our families are guided by faith, know the value of hard work, and deeply love our land.
‐‐ Liz Cheney