Top 1200 Good Writing Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I'm writing in English; I'm writing for a Western audience, but the people I'm surrounded by in my daily life are mostly non-white.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Never mistake talking about writing for actual writing.

I started writing after college, slowly, secretly writing.

The man of understanding can no more sit quiet and resigned while his country lets its literature decay, and lets good writing meet with contempt, than a good doctor could sit quiet and contented while some ignorant child was infecting itself with tuberculosis under the impression that it was merely eating jam tarts.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Writing anything as an expert is really poisonous to the writing process, because you lose the quality of discovery.

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

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

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

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

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

For a long time, I saw writing prose as chewing rocks compared to the velocities of writing poetry.

I came to Hollywood originally writing comedy and writing satire.