Top 1200 Beautiful Writing Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

When I'm writing something, everything falls into place. When I'm not writing, stuff keeps happening to me, and there's nowhere to put it all.

I have been writing songs since I was 9 years old, so writing has and always will be my first love and passion.

I did a minor in creative writing in college, but I didn't start writing until I stayed at home with my own children.

I don't think writing open-ended lyrics is necessarily an important part of writing good pop songs.

Writing pilots is such a specific thing. It's not even really writing TV shows. A pilot is its own beast.

I think finally good writing gets out there, and people like it, and bad writing doesn't. Well, no. Bad writing does get out there 'cause some people like it.

I've always been a fan of plain writing. I hate metaphor-laden, heavily larded, lyrical writing.

California has a beautiful coastline. It can be a rough coastline. The waves are huge. The rocks are steep. Same thing in Vancouver. It has a beautiful coastline. It's dramatic.

I've always liked the idea that writing is a form of travel. And I started my writing career as a mystery novelist for adults.

It's not writing in the traditional sense, but I've always said that the writing process continues on the set and even into the editing room.

I didn't originally intend on writing a book. I started writing during the day to feel like I was accomplishing something creative.

Adoption is wonderful and beautiful and the greatest blessing I have ever experienced. Adoption is also difficult and painful. Adoption is a beautiful picture of redemption.

My feeling is that writing Fantasy should be harder - not easier - than writing any other kind of fiction.

'Dead Poets Society' was a very influential film on me and so talking about that movie with him, he just inspired me to continue writing poetry and we talked a lot about our favourite poets. My wrap present from Robin was a beautiful limited edition copy of Walt Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass' and that's a great memory for me.

When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.

I don't do much of anything consciously in writing - in poetry writing, anyway, prose usually being a different matter, of course.

I'm not writing for fundamentalists. I'm writing for the people who have been repelled by that kind of thinking and yet who think there might be something they haven't yet discovered.

For all forms, writing dialogue is almost like writing music. I pay close attention to rhythms and tones.

The wrinkled man in the wheelchair with the legs wrapped, the girl with her face punctured deep with the teeth marks of a dog, the mess of the world, and I see - this, all this, is what the French call d'un beau affreux, what the Germans call hubsch-hasslich - the ugly-beautiful. That which is perceived as ugly transfigures into beautiful. What the postimpressionist painter Paul Gauguin expressed as 'Le laid peut etre beau' - The ugly can be beautiful. The dark can give birth to life; suffering can deliver grace.

What keeps me writing is that I can only know through writing. My major sense organ is apparently a pencil.

The most important advice I can offer is that writing is a craft that you can learn by practicing. If you keep writing, you will improve.

The Congo is really beautiful. People correct me and say, "Oh, you mean the Democratic Republic of the Congo." Well, fine. But, the land there, the landscape is extraordinary. It's big lakes and beautiful hills and trees.

I feel beautiful when I watch the commercials or see myself on a bus. But it's not only because it is me on a bus, it's also what we represent - telling the world to get out of these social norms of what it means to be beautiful.

God reminded me how beautiful we all are to Him, after all, we were created in His own image, and He looks at me, at you, in all our sweat and dirt and brokenness, and says, "I choose you. You are beautiful.

My first shoot was on a rooftop in swimsuits with two plus-size models who were curvy and voluptuous and beautiful, and they taught me so much about being beautiful in any shape or size.

I don't want to write poems that are just really clear about how I'm aware of all the traps involved in writing poetry; I don't want to write fiction that's about the irresponsibility of writing fiction and I've thrown out a lot of writing that I think was ultimately tainted by that kind of self-awareness.

Being a writer involves writing. You've got to commit to sitting down and writing instead of Xbox or Netflix.

There is a difference between writing and being an author. Authors talk. I'm standing here talking now. This has nothing to do with writing.

Fantasy is my genre and my home in the writing world. I consider it the biggest writing room in all literature, where there are literally no boundaries at all.

I looked at you... and saw your goodness, your hope, and your faith. Those are what make you beautiful. So, so beautiful. So it was't my hair?

I try to sort of make myself emotional in the moment when I'm writing, and that always translates better. When I'm writing, I can't do abstract.

The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry.

When I'm writing, sometimes it gets to that place where I feel like the piece is writing itself and I'm trying not to get in the way

For me, the process of writing a novel happens mostly in your head before you actually start writing.

The main thing about writing is... writing. Sitting your butt down in the chair and doing the work.

Bringing humility to the material and to the world and to the talent that was present, that's the true formula for success. When people are allowed to bring their best and you have a director who's not afraid to go in a certain way because he doesn't have an answer all the time... It is such a beautiful lesson and a beautiful experience.

I tend to delay writing by doing more research - it's really the act of writing the piece that I have the hardest time with.

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

I've found it really hard to finish writing songs when you're writing on not just your schedule but somebody else's.

When I'm writing, sometimes it gets to that place where I feel like the piece is writing itself and I'm trying not to get in the way.

It's insane to be a writer and not be a reader. When I'm writing I'm more likely to be reading four or five books at once, just in bits and pieces rather than subjecting myself to a really brilliant book and thinking, "Well what's the point of me writing anything?" I'm more likely to read a book through when I take a break from writing.

No lake is beautiful without the sky, without the mist or without the trees and the autumn leaves! No beauty is beautiful in itself!

I think it's dangerous to think you know what you're writing. I usually don't know, and usually I just discover it in the course of writing. I envy those writers who can outline a beginning, a middle, and end. Fitzgerald supposedly did it. John Irving does. Bret Easton Ellis does. But for me, the writing itself is the process of discovery. I can't see all that far ahead.

When I first started doing screen work, I thought, 'I'm not beautiful enough for this profession - all the actresses I watch on screen are gorgeous and beautiful goddesses, but I'm just a scrawny, scruffy girl from southwest London.'

He smelled the garden, the yellow shield of light smote his eyes, and he whispered, "Life is so beautiful." ... Yes, he thought, if I can die saying, "Life is so beautiful," then nothing else is important.

I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I have to finance that life. I can barely afford a pension scheme because I don't make enough money.

I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since.

Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope, some day, to find something to say.

Just because you're not thin does not mean you're ugly. You are beautiful because of the light you carry inside you. You are beautiful because you say you are, and you hold yourself that way.

I'm more interested in the writing than in the content per se (good writing can be about wallpaper and I'll devour it).

There is nothing Madison Avenue can give us that will make us more beautiful women. We are beautiful because God created us that way.

I didn't take writing seriously at first - I didn't think I could do it. When I did, I fell in love with it. But writing is very lonely.

If you think about writing a book, or when I did, it seems daunting, but when I began writing, it just started flowing.

I think I came to film-making through writing. I started to write, and people, teachers, responded to my writing.

I was someone who wanted to be a writer but who wasn't writing. I was someone buying books on writing. I was someone telling people that I was writer. But I was not writing.

Our bread need not ever be sour or hard to digest. What Nature is to the mind she is also to the body. As she feeds my imagination, she will feed my body; for what she says she means, and is ready to do. She is not simply beautiful to the poet's eye. Not only the rainbow and sunset are beautiful, but to be fed and clothed, sheltered and warmed aright, are equally beautiful and inspiring. There is not necessarily any gross and ugly fact which may not be eradicated from the life of man.

There's more than enough in the world I am currently writing about to last for several lifetimes of writing.

There's exceptional work being done on television. Some of our great writers are writing for television. When you have things to choose from, you typically go after the writing - unless you're going after the money. There are fewer opportunities in film to make money with good writing, unless you're an action hero.

If you have a dream of writing, that's wishful thinking. If you have a commitment to writing, that's the way to make your dreams come true.

Fanaticism? No. Writing is exciting and baseball is like writing. You can never tell with either how it will go.