Top 1200 Difficulty Of Writing Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

'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.

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

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

Never mistake talking about writing for actual writing.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I came to Hollywood originally writing comedy and writing satire.

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.

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

I started writing after college, slowly, secretly writing.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.