Top 1200 Difficulty Of Writing Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

When I started writing short stories, I thought I was writing a novel. I had like 60 or 70 pages. And what I realized was that I don't write inner monologue. I don't want to talk about what somebody is thinking or feeling. I wanted to try to show it in an interesting way. And so what I realized was that I was really writing a screenplay.

Passion is the degree of difficulty we are willing to endure to accomplish the goal.

To name a thing is easy: the difficulty is to discern it before its appearance.

When writing goes painfully, when it’s hideously difficult, and one feels real despair (ah, the despair, silly as it is, is real!)–then naturally one ought to continue with the work; it would be cowardly to retreat. But when writing goes smoothly–why then one certainly should keep on working, since it would be stupid to stop. Consequently one is always writing or should be writing.

The divine power moves with difficulty, but at the same time surely.

I'm accountable - this sounds emo - to black American writing, Southern writing, Southern black American writing, American writing and my people. That's kind of what keeps me accountable.

I'm very confident that God has a way of bringing good from difficulty.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.

I like writing, and I enjoy it. It's painful. You can't get around the pain of writing. I'm still trying to balance on what I think is my creative habit. It varies, but I do know that I need to continue. It helps me with my acting, and the writing helps me be invested in a different way.

Science has not solved difficulties, only shifted the points of difficulty.

The only way to do it is to do it: by writing, writing, writing.

Never underestimate the difficulty of changing false beliefs by facts

I think that screenwriting probably isn't seen as writing in the same way that novel-writing is seen as writing. But I certainly don't see it that way.

When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.

The main concern with a very large baby is difficulty in delivery.

Critics stopped being relevant when they stopped writing to inform and contextualize, and when they started writing to signal who they are, to display their identity by their stance on what they are writing about. Criticism should never be about the critic, but thats what it has become, and that’s why no one cares about them anymore.

Writing organizes and clarifies our thoughts. Writing is how we think our way into a subject and make it our own. Writing enables us to find out what we know-and what we don't know-about whatever we're trying to learn.

Resolve in advance to persist until you succeed, no matter what the difficulty.

Writing for the stage is different from writing for a book. You want to write in a way that an actor has material to work with, writing in the first person not the third person, and pulling out the dramatic elements in a bigger way for a stage presentation.

I like writing and I enjoy it. It's painful. You can't get around the pain of writing. I'm still trying to balance on what I think is my creative habit. It varies, but I do know that I need to continue. It helps me with my acting, and the writing helps me be invested in a different way.

With my students I give them lots and lots of guided writing. Part of it is as simple as writing a lot but not toward anything. The mind floats. Then I help them see where the language has heat. If we do this a lot in class, students eventually relax into this writing practice and enjoy it. Even just that - writing pleasure without the anxiety of "audience" or "grade" or "success" - is a kind of impetus toward the unfamiliar.

I would sit in my room and become hysterical about the wild incredible story I was writing. And I thought I was writing realism. It never occurred to me that I was writing absurdity. Realism and absurdity are so similar in the lives of American blacks one cannot tell the difference.

Joy and happiness don't strengthen relationships - difficulty does.

Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.

On the whole, anything that gets you writing and keeps you writing is a good thing. Anything that stops you writing is a bad thing.

'Writing' always means 'not writing' to me because I will do anything to put it off. I think this is mainly because writing anything down and then handing it over to a third party - especially in comedy - is such an exposing act that you naturally want to delay the process.

Writing a TV show is totally different than writing features, or just, what I started doing is writing features. You write a little bit more organically. You start from the beginning to the end, beginning, middle and end.

Good writers hate bad writing but hating bad writing doesn’t make you good. Writing badly does.

No circumstance, person, or difficulty can stop the plans and the promises of God.

Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart.

As long as we wish for safety, we will have difficulty pursuing what matters.

I've never had difficulty dominating any market I've been in.

I can work a lot faster when I'm writing a screenplay than when I'm writing a play because, if I'm having a problem with a scene or something, I can just be writing it in a way where there's no dialogue, or find a way to make sound do the work that I want to do or a close-up do the work that I need to do.

The greatest difficulty always comes right before the birth of a dream.

If you just think about the difficulty you'll never get anywhere.

After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people.

If there is a remedy or a cure, a solution to a problem or difficulty, why worry?

I haven't had trouble with writer's block. I think it's because my process involves writing very badly. My first drafts are filled with lurching, cliched writing, outright flailing around. Writing that doesn't have a good voice or any voice. But then there will be good moments.

I've been writing fiction probably since I was about 6 years old, so it's something that is second nature to me now. I just sit down and start writing. I don't sit down and start writing and it comes out perfectly - it's a process.

Millions of people are joined in the knowledge that writing brings insight and calm in the same way that prayer, meditation, or a long walk in the woods does. They have discovered that writing allows the racing mind to move at the pace of pen and paper or the pace of typing on the waiting screen - that journal writing is a spiritual practice.

I know that some of the finest writing I've ever read has been sports writing, whatever the topic was, whatever the sport they were writing about. It seems to be an area where people are allowed a little more leeway than when they're reporting on traffic jams and city-council meetings.

I really have very little aspirations about acting because I think that probably the best things have come and gone. I would like to focus on writing and directing. I love writing and directing even though writing can be incredibly painful and lonely. I get great satisfaction from doing it.

Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing & love me for my writing. It is also much more: a way of ordering and reordering the chaos of experience.

The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.

I was expelled from four schools. Today I still read with difficulty.

The work that is done in love loses half its tedium and difficulty.

I always tell my writing students that every good piece of writing begins with both a mystery and a love story. And that every single sentence must be a poem. And that economy is the key to all good writing. And that every character has to have a secret.

I have a certain amount of difficulty dealing with too much limelight.

The thing about opium is that it makes pain or difficulty unimaginable.

The difficulty one experiences in meeting himsa arises from weakness of mind.

The greatest difficulty with the world is not its ability to produce, but the unwillingness to share.

Get the confidence of the public and you will have no difficulty in getting their patronage.

That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.

All of a sudden, when you're exposed to a large audience, they think you just started writing that day, but I started years before. I look back at things I wrote then and I'm so embarrassed - the writing seems so blocky and choppy to me and I wouldn't have wanted success any sooner because the writing was even worse.

I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.

The sage regards things as difficult, and thereby avoids difficulty.

The greatest difficulty of Travel is that one is forced to take oneself along.