Top 1200 Beautiful Writing Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Never mistake talking about writing for actual writing.

Writing is a performance art for me. They're very closely aligned, writing and performing. But I'm a writer, not a performer.

I was always writing music anyway. I just sort of fell into it. Writing for me is a therapeutic process.

I don't find writing for the theater that different from writing a rock song.

[I] try to do both because the writing for me, to be a new artist, the writing is gonna pay the bills.

When I'm writing well, I feel happy. And when I go too long without writing, I begin to implode.

I was writing and cartooning and writing short stories from grade school on.

I'm not a reader of young adult fiction for the simple reason that these novelists are writing for adolescents, so they are not writing for me.

I sometimes don't know what I'm writing when I start writing it, on some level.

The point always is to be writing something - it leads to more writing.

There is no left and right in writing. There is only good and bad writing.

For me, writing for younger audiences and writing for adults uses two different halves of my brain.

I'm writing my biography. It's my business. This is what happened in my life, and I'm writing about it.

Writing is possibly an art, but crime writing is definitely a craft.

writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all

I'm not writing great literature. I'm writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the stories and to like the characters.

I do not think you should read about writing while you are writing.

I started writing after college, slowly, secretly writing.

I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry - writing at writing.

I write for the love of writing. If I never published another book, I would still be writing stories.

Writing dialogue is like writing a song, which I've done.

Music's always part of my writing. I think all art is interconnected. You can't create or experience one without its influences bleeding into another. In my writing, music's mostly something that feeds my inspiration and mood while I'm writing, but it's also taught me how to score scenes and even novels. The rise and fall of the storyline echoes the flow of a good piece of music.

Writing sucks. I think it's terrible. Writing is not fun, and don't trust anyone who claims to enjoy it. Liars!

Before I started writing for myself, I was writing country records, and they were coming out dope.

I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.

I'm writing in English; I'm writing for a Western audience, but the people I'm surrounded by in my daily life are mostly non-white.

Writing reminds you that you're never alone. Writing and reading is to be optimistic.

I keep my TV writing and my book writing almost wholly separate. The audiences feel so different.

Writing, for me, is the great organiser. It's while writing that I think most deeply about things.

'A Fair Maiden' existed in notes and sketches for perhaps a year. When I traveled, I would take along with me my folder of notes - 'ideas for stories.' Eventually, I began to write it and wrote it fairly swiftly - in perhaps two months of fairly intense writing and rewriting. Most of my time writing is really re-writing.

For me, writing is a way of finding out about things I didn't know before I began writing.

Writing anything as an expert is really poisonous to the writing process, because you lose the quality of discovery.

I think writing, my writing, is a species of mediumship. I become the person.

Each of us has his own way of emerging from the underworld, mine is by writing. That's why the only way I can keep going, if at all, is by writing, not through rest and sleep. I am far more likely to achieve peace of mind through writing than the capacity to write through peace.

For a long time, I saw writing prose as chewing rocks compared to the velocities of writing poetry.

I think there are a lot of similarities between writing and music. Music is much more direct and much more emotional and that's the level I want to be at when I'm writing. Writing is much more intellectual and indirect and abstract, in a way.

Yes, writing is not easy. But can any writer imagine NOT writing?

When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm not writing for American Scholar.

Writing is such a powerful tool. I believe everyone should be writing.

I came to Hollywood originally writing comedy and writing satire.

Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.

The ideal woman which is in every man's mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand. The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement. Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.

The writing that I have found to be most false is the writing that doesn't offer hope.

If you want to take writing on, you should pay writing the respect it deserves, which is to say, reading it.

When you're writing, at least when I'm writing, I don't think about themes and I try not to sermonize with any particular message.

I'm trying my hand at writing. I'm writing a couple of projects for HBO, a half hour comedy and a miniseries.

If a man means his writing seriously, he must mean to write well. But how can he write well until he learns to see what he has written badly. His progress toward good writing and his recognition of bad writing are bound to unfold at something like the same rate.

Writing must certainly be one of the hardest professions - writing and painting.

When you're writing for a show, you're writing part of the script. You have to tell the story.

Writing a screenplay is like writing a big puzzle, and so the hardest part, I think, is getting the story.

Ultimately, it's about the quality of the writing whatever style you are writing.

And I love writing; I've been writing ever since I was seven.

Writing for me, even what you call serious writing, is play.

You know, ever since I was a kid I've always been fascinated by the Arthurian Legend and, you know, the notion of nobility in battle and the - the notion of chivalry. And, you know, that's a - whether to not that's a dying theme in today's world. And then the offer of the White Knight came along and the writing was just beautiful and it was something that I just leapt at. I mean, it was great fun to do.

In teaching writing, I'm learning new things about writing.

My first writing jobs were writing Tom Arnold specials for HBO, so I love working there.

I don't think there's any essential difference, at least for me, between writing poetry and writing prose.

You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.

You find yourself writing the truth, because it's like, 'Well, I ain't writing for anyone but myself anyway.'

I love writing. Writing has been very good to me.