Top 1200 Good Writing Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I've always been an all around creative person. Song writing and writing are great ways for me to express myself.

If you're writing about what you're feeling about something, then you're in good stead.

I wasn't worried about flash or persona... It's all about writing a good, solid song.

I chose law because writing was involved. I didn't realize how boring legal writing was, but I even learned to love that.

Your writing is never as good as you hoped; but never as bad as you feared.

When I start writing these novels, I go into them with a spirit of inquiry rather than to substantiate prejudices I had in the beginning. If you don't do that, you can't write good characters.

Through all this other stuff I was doing, I always went back to the writing, and it was writing that made me feel whole, complete.

It's insane to be a writer and not be a reader. When I'm writing I'm more likely to be reading four or five books at once, just in bits and pieces rather than subjecting myself to a really brilliant book and thinking, "Well what's the point of me writing anything?" I'm more likely to read a book through when I take a break from writing.

News writing and sports writing have become synonymous. And it started with, you know, free agency, and now it's in the concussion debate.

As you continue writing and rewriting, you begin to see possibilities you hadn't seen before. Writing a poem is always a process of discovery.

All writers have periods when they stop writing, when they cannot write, and this is always painful and terrible because writing is like breathing.

I think it's dangerous to think you know what you're writing. I usually don't know, and usually I just discover it in the course of writing. I envy those writers who can outline a beginning, a middle, and end. Fitzgerald supposedly did it. John Irving does. Bret Easton Ellis does. But for me, the writing itself is the process of discovery. I can't see all that far ahead.

My father always told me I should be a writer, and I found I loved writing my autobiography; writing is such an interesting process.

They ask me what I'm writing for - I'm writing to show you what we're fighting for.

I do labor - it's part of the process. Writing is no easier today than it was in the beginning: writing well is very hard to do. Always.

This is the entire spiritual life, Ananda, that is, good friendship, good companionship, good comradeship. When a monk has a good friend, a good companion, a good comrade, it is to be expected that he will develop and cultivate the Noble Eightfold Path.

I love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself and I get to make up the rules of the world that I'm writing.

What's the challenge in writing a novel that few people will read? I'm more than happy writing what I do and have no plans to change that.

For me, writing is something that I need to do. If I'm not writing, I'm not happy.

Clichés are what good writing is all about. Because our lives are basically clichés.

I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.

The first writing of the human being was drawing, not writing.

I was someone who wanted to be a writer but who wasn't writing. I was someone buying books on writing. I was someone telling people that I was writer. But I was not writing.

I dedicate this novel to Gala, who was constantly by my side while I was writing it, who was the good fairy of my equilibrium, who banished the salamanders of my doubts and strengthened the lions of certainties.

In a dream world, I would love to be a master pastry chef, because it combines something I love doing baking with something I'm not good at doing baking. BUT! Practically, if I weren't writing and doing comedy things, I'd like to teach kids to read. I would be good at that in real life.

Doubtless, reading good books benefited me during the months and years of writing, yet I remained skeptical of any tight correlation to what I produced. That was naive.

When I turned to writing fantasy, and writing for young people, it was joyous. It was like discovering an underground lake of ideas that went on forever.

Writing a great script - not just a good one, but a great one - is almost an impossible task.

I've always thought that writing isn't really that hard. It's having a good idea that's hard.

In my writing classes, I don't outlaw any genre writing.

My gratitude for good writing is unbounded; I’m grateful for it the way I’m grateful for the ocean.

I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There's a story that wants to be told.

Once I get my writing done, then I can turn my attention elsewhere - and not the other way around. The writing has to be the foundation.

Love is the main generator of all good writing... Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.

Whenever I'm writing a song, if I have an idea for the music video, that's how I know it's a good song.

Writing books isn't a drastic departure from writing for the stage.

The best kind of writing, and the biggest thrill in writing, is to suddenly read a line from your typewriter that you didnt know was in you.

Writing is a form of talking, although writing is such an odd thing in and of itself. People go about it in such different ways.

Writing a whole series was a crash course in screenwriting, which is a very different muscle to standup comedy writing.

I've spent most of my life writing and developing everything that I've wanted to be in - which is why I started writing in the first place.

People don't stress enough that when they're writing lyrics, they are writing.

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

On the Internet, everyone is writing. There is a great flowering of writing.

A lot of movies that come from Israel are about war, but there is such good, funny, rounded writing that comes from the country that I wish more people would discover.

My writing is progressing slowly, but at least it's moving forward. I'm sure that's the case. The only problem is that I'm never absolutely certain that what I've written is any good.

I don't know if it's good or bad, but when I first started writing I imitated the narrative thrust of a movie. And as I worked, I learned what you can do in fiction that you can't do in movies, and vice-versa.

My job is to work at song writing and singing and telling the truth in song writing. My job is to be courageous enough to go on stage and tell the truth, the same truth that's gone into my song writing.

I tend to elongate the sentences as I'm writing and editing, and there is just something about the feeling of writing longhand that I really love.

When you are writing, of course, you have to do all that writing and correcting for yourself. When I was a librarian it was expected that I would know about a wide range of books.

Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.

If you are careful,' Garp wrote, 'if you use good ingredients, and you don't take any shortcuts, then you can usually cook something very good. Sometimes it is the only worthwhile product you can salvage from a day; what you make to eat. With writing, I find, you can have all the right ingredients, give plenty of time and care, and still get nothing. Also true of love. Cooking, therefore, can keep a person who tries hard sane.

Writing is a sedentary gig unless one has a treadmill desk. But I have long believed writing and working out are complementary disciplines.

Writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too.

Half your battle is won when the writing is good, and then you as an artist bring your personality into it.

I started writing when I was around 6. I say 'writing,' but it was really just making up stuff! I started writing and doing my own thing. I didn't really know what a demo was or anything like that, so I started getting interested in studio gear and started learning about one instrument at a time. My first instrument was an accordion.

Independent graphic novelists have already achieved good work in terms of design, but all these great minds are writing in English. There is a need for people to write in Hindi.

Don't worry about what you're writing or whether it's good or even whether it makes sense.

In a sense, journalism can be both helpful and detrimental to a writer of fiction because the kind of writing you need to do as a journalist is so different. It has to be clear, unambiguous, concise, and as a writer often you are trying to do things that are more ambiguous. I find that writing fiction is often an antidote to reading and writing too much journalism.

Writing good editorials is chiefly telling the people what they think, not what you think.

I have always believed that writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. The first, of course, is ransom notes.