Top 1200 English Writing Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Canada could have enjoyed: English government, French culture, and American know-how. Instead it ended up with: English know-how, French government, and American culture.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

If you have a dream of writing, that's wishful thinking. If you have a commitment to writing, that's the way to make your dreams come true.

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.

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

I don't think there's any essential difference, at least for me, between writing poetry and writing prose.

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

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

I came to Hollywood originally writing comedy and writing satire.

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

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.

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

Never mistake talking about writing for actual writing.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I started writing after college, slowly, secretly writing.