Top 1200 English Writing Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

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.

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

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

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

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

You have to remember that writing itself is so solitary. You start writing because you're lonely.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Every day, I write. I have a writing period - it's usually in the morning - or I'm writing songs.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed up with a combination of the Junior FBI-men, discards from Freud and Jung and a sort of Columnist peep-hole and missing laundry list school. ... Every young English professor sees gold in them dirty sheets now. Imagine what they can do with the soiled sheets of four legal beds by the same writer and you can see why their tongues are slavering.

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

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

My first writing jobs were writing Tom Arnold specials for HBO, so I love working there.

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

When I'm writing I don't dream much; it's like the dreaming gets used in the writing.

When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.

English is, from my point of view as an Americanist, an ethnicity. And English literature should be studied in Comparative Literature. And American literature should be a discipline, certainly growing from England and France, Germany, Spain, Denmark, and the Native traditions, particularly because those helped form the American canon. Those are our backgrounds. And then we'd be doing it the way it ought to be done. And someday I hope that it will be.

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.

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 don't think it is always necessary to take up the anti-colonial -- or is it post-colonial? -- cudgels against English. What seems to me to be happening is that those people who were once colonized by the language are now rapidly remaking it, domesticating it, becoming more and more relaxed about the way they use it -- assisted by the English language's enormous flexibility and size, they are carving out large territories for themselves within its frontiers.

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

I've played English a number of times, and used an English accent a number of times, so it becomes a little bit of an obstacle course to go, "Oh, that's teetering into Captain Jack-ville," or "This is teetering into Chocolat or Wonka." You've got to really pay attention to the places you've been. But, that's part of it. That's the great challenge. You may get it wrong. There's a very good possibility that you can fall flat on your face, but that's a healthy thing for an actor.

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

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

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

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.

It takes a lot of bad writing to get to a little good writing.

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

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

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

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.