Top 1200 Difficulty Of Writing Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I've been writing articles for newspapers and magazines. And writing is a very beautiful way of expression.

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

I always start with writing vocal melodies before writing lyrics.

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

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

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