Top 1200 Essay Writing Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

On the craft level, writing for children is not so different from writing for adults. You still have to have a story that moves forward. You still have to have the tools of the trade down. The difference arises in the knowledge of who you're writing for. This isn't necessary true of writing for adults.

Writing is really just a matter of writing a lot, writing consistently and having faith that you'll continue to get better and better. Sometimes, people think that if they don't display great talent and have some success right away, they won't succeed. But writing is about struggling through and learning and finding out what it is about writing itself that you really love.

To love is to believe, to hope, to know; Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!

I always want to read Gore Vidal's nonfiction. Because everything he writes is an essay and it's worth reading.

The whole movement of an essay is propelled by a fundamentally human impulse to want to figure things out.

When people speak to me of the torment of writing, I can think only of what it was like before I wrote: once writing meant writing and not thinking about writing, I knew nothing of any torment.

I essay a negative or a positive character depending on whether it's a principle role and how much it drives the movie.

Why, in such a case, should the performer essay any sort of considered approach at all?

Writing can come naturally to some. Still, when it comes to good writing, this is true: Easy reading is damn hard writing.

It is a singular reaction, this sitting still and writing, writing, writing, or ruminating at length, which is much the same, really.

I enjoyed writing in school. I don't know that I was all that good at it in school. I worked at it later. I feel comfortable writing now. I enjoy writing now. I suspect, like most college students, I viewed writing then to be more tedious.

In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.

If you have to find devices to coax yourself to stay focused on writing, perhaps you should not be writing what you're writing. And if this lack of motivation is a constant problem, perhaps writing is not your forte. I mean, what is the problem? If writing bores you, that is pretty fatal. If that is not the case, but you find that it is hard going and it just doesn't flow, well, what did you expect? It is work; art is work.

One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.

The process of re-writing and writing and re-writing means that you may have a brilliant phrase, but over time it distills and distorts and changes.

I always did well on the essay questions. Just put everything you know on there, maybe you'll hit it.

When it comes to sermon writing, generally there are two problems. Some preachers love the research stage but hate the writing, and they start writing too late. Others don't like doing research, so they move way too fast to the writing part.

People think that writing is writing, but actually writing is editing. Otherwise, you're just taking notes

When I can find a story that explores something that I don't know what I think, I've got a play. If I knew the answer, I would write a speech or an essay.

You honor your writing space by recovering, if you are an addict. You honor your writing space by becoming an anxiety expert, a real pro at mindfulness and personal calming. You honor your writing space by affirming that you matter, that your writing life matters, and that your current writing project matters. You honor your writing space by entering it with this mantra: “I am ready to work.” You enter, grow quiet, and vanish into your writing.

I have a hard time writing. Most writers have a hard time writing. I have a harder time than most because I'm lazier than most. [...] The other problem I have is fear of writing. The act of writing puts you in confrontation with yourself, which is why I think writers assiduously avoid writing. [...] Not writing is more of a psychological problem than a writing problem. All the time I'm not writing I feel like a criminal. [...] It's horrible to feel felonious every second of the day. Especially when it goes on for years. It's much more relaxing actually to work.

I went to Marion College for writing and I was kicked out of the writing school. I was asked to leave the writing program because I was corrupting the other students.

Honestly, the life of a serial character on television, I'd love to write an essay about it.

An essay is a work of literary art which has a minimum of one anecdote and one universal idea.

To love is to believe, to hope, to know; 'Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!

Some years ago John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in an essay on his efforts at writing a history of economics: 'As one approaches the present, one is filled with a sense of hopelessness; in a year and possibly even a month, there is now more economic comment in the supposedly serious literature than survives from the whole of the thousand years commonly denominated as the Middle Ages ... anyone who claims to be familiar with it all is a confessing liar.' I believe that all physicists would subscribe to the same sentiments regarding their own professional literature. I do at any rate.

Good writing is clear. Talented writing is energetic. Good writing avoids errors. Talented writing makes things happen in the reader's mind - -vividly, forcefully.

To the student I would say, "Life is principally multiple choice, but at the end there's a tough essay question.

The tagline at Westin hotels is that they strive to surprise and delight their guests. This is exactly what a college essay should do.

Paradesi' remains close to my heart because Amina ages in the course of the film and I got to essay her life on screen.

I wish to continue to essay roles that will help me find my place in the audience's hearts.

Journalism is very much public writing, writing with an audience in mind, writing for publication, and frequently writing quickly. And I know that when I worked daily journalism it really affected my patience with literature, which I think requires reflection, and a different kind of engagement.

There is so much about the process of writing that is mysterious to me, but this one thing I've found to be true: writing begets writing.

Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot.

Wifehood and motherhood... are a bigger handicap than the average male genius would... essay to carry to success.

Consider the Essay as a political pamphlet on the Revolution side, and the fact that it was the Whig gospel for a century, and you will see its working merit.

Writing for adults and writing for young people is really not that different. As a reporter, I have always tried to write as clearly and simply as possible. I like clean, unadorned writing. So writing for a younger audience was largely an exercise in making my prose even more clear and direct, and in avoiding complicated digressions.

I think that writers are best served by sticking to their writing. Not having loads of theories about the best way to position the writing. I think that if the writing is good and the point of view is strong, the writing is going to take care of itself.

I always tell audiences when I talk about writing: Writing isn't something I do; writing is something that I am. I am writing - it's just an expression of me.

It takes me forever to actually finish something like a ten-page essay. But, when I do, I usually love what they are. It's a complicated relationship.

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

In my own little way, I feel like I'm part of a group of writers who care deeply about pushing the essay forward.

I vicariously lived the life of an independent producer from the time I was four years old. And what was always important was writing, writing, writing.

When you're out in the desert, you can't believe the amount of stars. Are you busy as a bee? Do not even have time for fun? Do your friends advise you to buy essay writing example? Do not hesitate! Come after the advice of clever men and make a correct choice! We've sent mechanisms out there, and they haven't found anything. They've found different colors of sand, and rings, and gasses, but nobody's shown me anything that makes me feel secure in what happens afterward. All I really believe in is this moment, like right now.

I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time

Life isn't like coursework, baby. It's one damn essay crisis after another.

I'm always trying to bring as many poetic properties as possible to the essay without making it too overburdened.

If there's anything I'm keen to get better at in my writing, then it's the writing of prose as opposed to the writing of dialogue.

Writing, for me, when I'm writing in the first-person, is like a form of acting. So as I'm writing, the character or self I'm writing about and my whole self - when I began the book - become entwined. It's soon hard to tell them apart. The voice I'm trying to explore directs my own perceptions and thoughts.

I think writing for me has always been a matter of fear. Writing is fear and not writing is fear. I am afraid of writing and then I'm afraid of not writing.

I have to say that writing about my writing process is more daunting than writing non-fiction.

The modern essay has regained a good deal of its literary status in our time, much to the credit of Joseph Epstein.

As a boy, I was ashamed to wear glasses. I memorized the eye chart, and then on the test they asked essay questions.

I'm not in any rat race. This allows me to take up roles that are traditionally considered risky for a heroine to essay.

For me, most of the anxiety and difficulty of writing takes place in the act of not writing. It's the procrastination, the thinking about writing that's difficult.

Life is not a multiple choice test, it's an open-book essay exam.

When I'm writing a novel or doing other serious writing work, I do it on a schedule that dictates writing either 2,000 words a day or writing until noon. After I hit whichever mark comes first, then I can give my attention to everything else I have to do.

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.

If you are making money writing, you are doing great. If you can support yourself writing, you are a success. I don't care if you're writing textbooks or Pulitzer Prize-winning articles for weighty publications of world renown: If you're writing and it's paying the bills, consider yourself a successful writer.

I'm more of a songwriter. I love writing songs. I love writing my songs. It's always been writing for me, and it makes it different when you're writing for yourself.