Top 1200 English Writing Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

O MY WIFE-who made the writing of my previous book a pleasure and writing of the present one a necessity.

What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.

Well, predominately, if I'm writing for another artist, I'm sitting there with them and we're writing it together.

When my second husband shouted, 'Me or your writing!' I replied, 'My writing.' We separated.

For me writing has always felt like praying even when I wasn't writing prayers.

Reading and writing don't inevitably go together. You can read without learning a thing about writing, grammar, or spelling, although, you certainly can't learn anything about writing, grammar, or spelling unless you read.

I was writing since I can remember - I just didn't know it was poetry yet, or that writing could be a career.

Writing about racism requires a directness that writing a love story does not.

I'll be writing until I can't write anymore. It's a compulsion with me. I love writing.

I'm honestly as happy writing Superman Adventures as I am writing Wanted.

When I wrote and got out of the way, writing did writing.” (p.90)

I usually dread writing non-fiction. I don't feel comfortable or confident writing essays and the like.

To me, writing is fun. It doesn't matter what you're writing, as long as you can tell a story.

So, whenever I'm writing, I'm writing in the presence of all the other books I've read and I think we all are.

Usually with film writing I start with characters, and set about writing their story.

I do a lot of writing. People don't actually know how much writing really I do.

Writing for other people is easier than writing for myself - it's not as personal.

'The Sopranos' all came down to the writing. I wouldn't have been on for as long as I was if the writing weren't so good.

The only thing that makes me crazier than writing is not writing.

The three things that help writing the most are living, writing, and reading. In that order.

Writing is sacred, other activities are profane, and I don't want them to corrupt my writing.

If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.

When you're not writing, you're not doing anything else either because everything you do goes into the writing.

English Bohemianism is a curiously unluscious fruit. ... Inside this hothouse, huge lascivious orchids slide sensuously up the sweating windows, passion-flowers cross-pollinate in wild heliotrope abandon, lotuses writhe with poppies in the sweet warm beds, kumquats ripen, open and plop flatly to the floor-and outside, in a neat, trimly-hoed kitchen-garden, English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.

I don't think anyone is ever writing so that you can throw it away. You're always writing it to be something. Later, you decide whether it'll ever see the light of day. But at the moment of its writing, it's always meant to be something. So, to me, there's no practicing; there's only editing and publishing or not publishing.

Writing was always a laborious thing for me. I never wrote fluently, I never wrote fluidly, there was something very awkward in my writing. But it seemed to me purposely awkward. It's almost as if I made the labor part of writing.

I'm a fairly fast, but sloppy writer, so I'm a big fan of re-writing, and re-writing again.

There's no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else comes with it

I have been writing since I was old enough to spell. I have never considered not writing.

Writing Charles Dickens' biography is like writing five biographies.

When I'm writing, I'm in an isolation chamber. I'm not one to think about that outside world stuff when I'm writing.

I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic.

A cookbook is not like being an author. It's writing down recipes; it's not writing.

Writing of that caliber spoils you for any other kind of writing for awhile. But that's probably good.

Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.

As far as when I'm writing a song, I think I'm writing first and foremost for myself.

Writing with a film in mind - writing like a screenplay - is a sureshot recipe for disaster.

Pivotal to a happy writing life is a practice of daily personal writing.

I stopped writing fiction the moment I started writing songs, and I miss it.

I'm not in the practice commonly of writing checks just for the fun of writing them.

I always start with writing vocal melodies before writing lyrics.

Writing novels is so much more satisfying than writing television.

The Sopranos all came down to the writing. I wouldn't have been on for as long as I was if the writing weren't so good.

If one takes pleasure in calling the gold standard a "barbarous relic," one cannot object to the application of the same term to every historically determined institution. Then the fact that the British speak English - and not Danish, German, or French - is a barbarous relic too, and every Briton who opposes the substitution of Esperanto for English is no less dogmatic and orthodox than those who do not wax rapturous about the plans for a managed currency.

I figure I wrote 37 songs in 20 years, and that's not exactly a full-time job. It wasn't that I was writing and writing and writing and quit. Every now and then I wrote something, and every now and then I didn't. The second just outnumbered the first.

I believe it is our values and our ideals that ultimately bind us together as a nation. But it is the English language which serves as the means by which we can communicate these values to those around us. Our common language, English, is that which unites us.

It's much harder when you're writing about your life, than when you're writing fiction.

When you're writing for a TV show, what's great is that you always know what actor you're writing to.

I despise writing in general, but yeah, I love writing the stuff that I direct.

There's no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else comes with it.

So what comes naturally to me is writing lyrics and writing songs and telling stories.

Writing a picture book is like writing 'War and Peace' in Haiku.

I'm writing new music all the time. I'm just not writing pop stuff. It's not my goal.

Writing is not just the technical act of your fingers on the keyboard. Writing is living.

If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.

The easiest thing I do is assignment songs. They tell me what they need me to write. I can do that fairly quickly. Writing for an orchestra is difficult. Writing songs [on your own] is most difficult of all. Though [writing for] the orchestra is close.

I love writing traditional magazine pieces, and especially their breadth of reporting and the deliberateness of the writing.

In my writing, I focus lenses. I'm almost always seeing when I am writing.

Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on.

Writing eases my suffering . . . writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.