Top 1200 Beautiful Writing Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Writing Charles Dickens' biography is like writing five biographies.

I was writing since I can remember - I just didn't know it was poetry yet, or that writing could be a career.

The three things that help writing the most are living, writing, and reading. In that order.

Pivotal to a happy writing life is a practice of daily personal writing.

Writing about racism requires a directness that writing a love story does not.

When I'm writing, I'm in an isolation chamber. I'm not one to think about that outside world stuff when I'm writing.

I'm honestly as happy writing Superman Adventures as I am writing Wanted.

I'm a fairly fast, but sloppy writer, so I'm a big fan of re-writing, and re-writing again.

If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.

Every day, I write. I have a writing period - it's usually in the morning - or I'm writing songs.

I stopped writing fiction the moment I started writing songs, and I miss it.

What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.

I always start with writing vocal melodies before writing lyrics.

Writing eases my suffering . . . writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.

When I wrote and got out of the way, writing did writing.” (p.90)

Writing of that caliber spoils you for any other kind of writing for awhile. But that's probably good.

I despise writing in general, but yeah, I love writing the stuff that I direct.

It takes a lot of bad writing to get to a little good writing.

A cookbook is not like being an author. It's writing down recipes; it's not writing.

I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic.

So, whenever I'm writing, I'm writing in the presence of all the other books I've read and I think we all are.

One of the ready advantages of writing a road or quest story is that it mirrors the experience of writing a novel.

Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.

I usually dread writing non-fiction. I don't feel comfortable or confident writing essays and the like.

Writing is not just the technical act of your fingers on the keyboard. Writing is living.

I have been writing since I was old enough to spell. I have never considered not writing.

I'm not in the practice commonly of writing checks just for the fun of writing them.

For me writing has always felt like praying even when I wasn't writing prayers.

Well, predominately, if I'm writing for another artist, I'm sitting there with them and we're writing it together.

When I'm writing I don't dream much; it's like the dreaming gets used in the writing.

I love writing traditional magazine pieces, and especially their breadth of reporting and the deliberateness of the writing.

When my second husband shouted, 'Me or your writing!' I replied, 'My writing.' We separated.

The only thing that makes me crazier than writing is not writing.

O MY WIFE-who made the writing of my previous book a pleasure and writing of the present one a necessity.

Writing with a film in mind - writing like a screenplay - is a sureshot recipe for disaster.

Writing a picture book is like writing 'War and Peace' in Haiku.

To me, writing is fun. It doesn't matter what you're writing, as long as you can tell a story.

You have to remember that writing itself is so solitary. You start writing because you're lonely.

So what comes naturally to me is writing lyrics and writing songs and telling stories.

Writing for other people is easier than writing for myself - it's not as personal.

When you're writing for a TV show, what's great is that you always know what actor you're writing to.

I came out with a book called The True Secret of Writing: Connecting Life with Language. It's a book that describes how writing is a practice and how my teaching is part of that practice. I direct the writing and create books but underneath, there's always the river of practice happening. No good, no bad. Just do it.

In my writing, I focus lenses. I'm almost always seeing when I am writing.

Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on.

I do a lot of writing. People don't actually know how much writing really I do.

Writing is sacred, other activities are profane, and I don't want them to corrupt my writing.

When you're not writing, you're not doing anything else either because everything you do goes into the writing.

'The Sopranos' all came down to the writing. I wouldn't have been on for as long as I was if the writing weren't so good.

I'll be writing until I can't write anymore. It's a compulsion with me. I love writing.

There's no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else comes with it.

Writing novels is so much more satisfying than writing television.

As far as when I'm writing a song, I think I'm writing first and foremost for myself.

If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.

It's much harder when you're writing about your life, than when you're writing fiction.

The Sopranos all came down to the writing. I wouldn't have been on for as long as I was if the writing weren't so good.

I don't think anyone is ever writing so that you can throw it away. You're always writing it to be something. Later, you decide whether it'll ever see the light of day. But at the moment of its writing, it's always meant to be something. So, to me, there's no practicing; there's only editing and publishing or not publishing.

I'm writing new music all the time. I'm just not writing pop stuff. It's not my goal.

When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.

There's no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else comes with it

Usually with film writing I start with characters, and set about writing their story.