Top 1200 Beautiful Writing Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

I feel confident writing on my feet with improv, but it's different when you're sitting down and writing it out.

If I don't know who I'm writing for, I make it up and pick somebody I'm writing for. That's really the only way to do it.

When you have a writing partner and you're writing a comedy, your goal is to make each other laugh.

Writing isn't about the destination-writing is the journey that transforms the soul and gives meaning to all else.

I don't mean that to be egotistical, but I'm not writing fluff. I'm not writing for 8-year-olds. I'm a woman and I'm a rock girl.

Writing provides no guarantees. And writers who stay with writing do it for reasons that are larger than self.

The cool thing about writing music, writing anything, is that once you publish it, it's there forever.

My job is writing for people to enjoy and then writing about a broader and a deeper world.

I love the resource of the Internet. I use it all the time. Anything I'm writing - for example, if I'm writing a scene about Washington D.C. and I want to know where this monument is, I can find it right away, I can get a picture of the monument, it just makes your life so much easier, especially if you're writing fiction. You can check stuff so much quicker, and I think that's all great for writers.

A man-made thing that produces pleasure (and criticism) by somehow taping into the order of the universe is beautiful. Making beautiful things makes our lives worthwhile. My teacher, and one of the founders of the Pratt industrial design program, Rowena Reed Kostellow, said, "Pure, unadulterated beauty should be the goal of civilization." From a pragmatic point of view, for something to be beautiful, it has to work. In order to make this idea clearer I have combined the ideas of beauty and function into one word: Beautility.

You can be far more challenging, articulate and intelligent writing for television than you can writing for the cinema.

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication.

I think that there's something extremely beautiful about the Olympic ideal and its motto - 'Swifter, higher, stronger' - it's such a beautiful motto, and it celebrates everything which is the antithesis of death and dissolution and entropy.

Writing a song is like - you're writing a song all the time. It's just when it pops out. It's been there all the time. It's not something that suddenly you do it. It's always there. Suddenly, it's in the right mixture inside you to come out. Usually when you're writing on the piano or a guitar, you don't write in lyrics, on their own. To me it's very boring.

When you're really caught up in writing a poem, it can be a form of prayer. I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer. I feel it in different degrees and not with every poem. But in certain ways writing is a form of prayer.

Teaching writing puts you on the point of a pin in terms of what you want your own writing to be.

But it's not only: What are you going to do about touring, it's: What are you going to do with your life? Is there a point to what we do? I think there is. Making music, creating beautiful things. We have to be in love with the good and the beautiful. If we are not, then you're in a nihilistic state.

I don't think you're happier if you're thin or beautiful or rich or married. You have to make your own happiness. My heroines do not become beautiful elegant swans, they become confident ducks and get on with life.

For my students who are trying to learn the craft of writing in a writing class - contemporary literature is what's most useful.

Usually when I'm writing, I kind of know what it is before I start writing and I write stream of consciousness style.

I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic.

It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.

Writers have problems writing sex scenes, because writing one really well is pornography.

I like the physical action of writing down by hand, and I don't just use it for writing my fiction.

Not writing is as important as writing - go out into the world and remember how interesting it, and the people in it, are.

Writing, for me, means humility. It’s a process that involves fear and doubt, especially if you’re writing honestly.

I don't know if I have writing habits. Writing is impossible and every time I have to do it I kind of forget how.

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

I have been writing poetry for a long time now. I started writing in my school days.

These are two opposing forces, and whenever I am in active politics, I stop writing. And when I'm writing, I don't politick.

I love writing. I've always written journals. I loved writing the book on living alone.

Just write and love what you're writing. And if you're not loving what you're writing, take a look at why and fix that.

Apple has beautiful design, beautiful product, incredibly functional. But mostly, it's about picking product, getting behind it, marketing it, and introducing it to a customer. What they've done just inspires me.

I had made all these rules for myself: I'm not writing social commentary, I'm not writing love songs.

I love writing music, but it seems I'm always writing words, so I don't get much time to do it.

I spend a huge amount of time writing about the book instead of writing the actual text.

I'm usually just writing lyrics alone in my room, but I'm happy to be producing and writing chords anywhere.

A plain sock by itself is terribly boring, but it could score points by having a clever stitch pattern, or maybe by being made out of a very beautiful yarn that's an enchantment to work with. (Sadly, it is still infuriatingly true that being beautiful without being clever is almost worth more points than being clever without being beautiful, but such are the rules of life and knitting-they are cruel, but there anyway).

Seattle is beautiful. You look at the sky and it's one of the most beautiful skies in the world, and then there's the Puget Sound, which will kill you, if you fall into it, but it's also beautiful. Seattle is a city of contradictions. It's the most liberal and most literate city in America, and it has Starbucks and [Bill] Gates, but it's also where the Green River killer hunted women and where the runaway population is just shocking when you walk the streets. Within the same city, there's darkness and light.

It [the Earth] was breathtakingly beautiful, like something out of a fairy tale. There is no way to describe the joy of seeing the Earth. It is blue, and more beautiful than any other planet.

When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around.

Writing, real writing, should leave a small sweet bruise somewhere on the writer . . . and on the reader.

One of the hardest parts of writing is writing from the gut or the heart or something like that rather than intellectually.

I've only ever taken a playwriting class, but I like creative writing and writing screenplays.

writing is how I understand everything that happens. Writing is the only way I know to move on.

I spent as much time writing proposals in '98 and '99 as I did writing scripts.

Writing is storytelling. No matter how you slice it, you're saying, 'Once upon a time.' That's what writing is all about.

We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful rolling hills, and winding streams with tangled growth as wild. Earth was beautiful and we were surrounded with the blessings of the Great Mystery.

I love going to the Via Giulia, a beautiful old cobbled street, which has a bridge at one end behind the Palazzo Farnese. It has long creepers hanging from it, and is the most evocative, beautiful place to stand and enjoy the city.

I work very hard on the writing, writing and rewriting and trying to weed out the lumber.

The northern ocean is beautiful, ... and beautiful the delicate intricacy of the snowflake before it melts and perishes, but such beauties are as nothing to him who delights in numbers, spurning alike the wild irrationality of life and baffling complexity of nature's laws.

The other thing that's useful for me is this notion of the absolute versus the relative:if we walk out and it's a beautiful morning, it's only a beautiful morning because we don't have a broken leg or hemorrhoids or something.

There's such good writing now on television and I don't see a lot of great writing on films sadly.

I'm a fan of writing, and writing letters, because I hate when I'm trying to get a thought out, and I can't.

A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood.

I am writing things on my own, but I really believe co-writing makes you a better writer.

I've been writing stories since I was 12. 'Writer's Digest' was one of my writing teachers, actually.

People go overseas and say, 'Wow, it's so beautiful.' When they see the actual India, where I have filmed some of my key scenes, they will realize that our country is more beautiful than any other place in this world.

I treat both acting and writing as a creation - writing is just another element or aspect of it.

The City's going to be very very beautiful! Its going to be like a beautiful beautiful park in some places, and there in the lower level where the river flows right through the City there's going to be these beautiful trees growing on both sides, fruit trees with 12 different kinds of fruit, a different kind every month, think of that!-And leaves that'll be able to heal the people outside the City that are still sin-sick, and sick of their disobediences and their rebellion against God. We're going to be able to take those leaves outside and heal them!