Top 1200 Good Writing Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

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

I spent as much time writing proposals in '98 and '99 as I did writing scripts.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We all are who we are. We're not necessarily good, and we're not necessarily bad. So much television, in the writing, is so one-dimensional, in that aspect, where you have your good guys and you have your bad guys.

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

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

I was pregnant with my youngest child at the time, writing about mass death while I'm growing this precious little life inside me. Here I am, worried about everything I eat and drink and whether I walk past a smoker, and meanwhile I'm writing about an event where almost three hundred children were slaughtered. Most were never identified and are buried in a mass grave in Oakland. It was surreal. But it felt good to give Jim Jones's victims a voice, especially ordinary church members.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Writing Charles Dickens' biography is like writing five biographies.

The difference of human being behind the guy on the page is in writing, I'm no longer conscious of personal repercussions because for that moment they don't exist. At times, I tell myself, Well, I can always go back and change that or take it out, and I find out that I rarely do. Couple little things here and there: Do unto others. Be a good scout. With all the ironies that entails, I go by that. That's a good way to live.

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 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'm a fan of writing, and writing letters, because I hate when I'm trying to get a thought out, and I can't.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Some may say [journal keeping] is a great deal of trouble. But we should not call anything trouble which brings to pass good. I consider that portion of my life which has been spent in keeping journals and writing history to have been very profitably spent. - "If there was no other motive in view [except] to have the privilege of reading over our journals and for our children to read, it would pay for the time spent in writing it.

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

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

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

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

I treat both acting and writing as a creation - writing is just another element or aspect of it.

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

I always start with writing vocal melodies before writing lyrics.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.