Top 1200 Personal Writing Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

Writing of that caliber spoils you for any other kind of writing for awhile. But that's probably good.

When you're not writing, you're not doing anything else either because everything you do goes into the writing.

Writing was always a laborious thing for me. I never wrote fluently, I never wrote fluidly, there was something very awkward in my writing. But it seemed to me purposely awkward. It's almost as if I made the labor part of writing.

There's no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else comes with it.

I do a lot of writing. People don't actually know how much writing really I do.

I don't want to pooh-pooh modern pop. I appreciate that as well, but my personal favorite kind of music is guitar-based rock. I like grunge and garage bands and alternative music, but that's more my personal taste.

I'm a fairly fast, but sloppy writer, so I'm a big fan of re-writing, and re-writing again.

Teaching and writing are separate, but serve/feed one another in so many ways. Writing travels the road inward, teaching, the road out - helping OTHERS move inward - it is an honor to be with others in the spirit of writing and encouragement.

Social media is just a platform. Twitter is a very simple and immediate broadcast platform. Facebook is a very personal, when it comes to friends and when it comes to fan pages, a little bit less but still somewhat personal way to communicate.

Everything I do with BLK DNM is more personal than anything I have done before. I've worked hard to go deeper in my true intuition, and therefore I am definitely more pure in my personal taste than ever.

I love writing traditional magazine pieces, and especially their breadth of reporting and the deliberateness of the writing.

The easiest thing I do is assignment songs. They tell me what they need me to write. I can do that fairly quickly. Writing for an orchestra is difficult. Writing songs [on your own] is most difficult of all. Though [writing for] the orchestra is close.

It's much harder when you're writing about your life, than when you're writing fiction.

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

I understand why people might be interested. But I just don't talk about my personal life. It's a decision I made a long time ago, before I ever even knew anyone would be interested in my personal life.

When I'm writing, I'm in an isolation chamber. I'm not one to think about that outside world stuff when I'm writing.

Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.

Writing with a film in mind - writing like a screenplay - is a sureshot recipe for disaster.

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

There's nothing personal in it [THE SKRIKER]. I'm not ever inclined with any of the plays to say, This is about that, because plays are about the whole event that they are. . . . I was certainly wanting to write a play about damage - damage to nature and damage to people, both of which there's plenty of about. To that extent, I was writing a play about England now.

I have been writing since I was old enough to spell. I have never considered not writing.

If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.

There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me to add to that huge number of people writing here when there are so few people writing about somewhere else.

If you're using a computer as an artist and expressing your personal vision, I think your personal vision comes through.

I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment following some bewildering experiences as an infantryman and later as a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany. The science of the Study of Man has been extremely satisfactory from that personal standpoint.

It doesn't matter what one reveals or what one keeps to oneself. Everything we do, everything we are, rests on our personal power. If we don't have enough personal power the most magnificent piece of wisdom can be revealed to us and it won't make a damn bit of difference.

When my second husband shouted, 'Me or your writing!' I replied, 'My writing.' We separated.

I don't think anyone is ever writing so that you can throw it away. You're always writing it to be something. Later, you decide whether it'll ever see the light of day. But at the moment of its writing, it's always meant to be something. So, to me, there's no practicing; there's only editing and publishing or not publishing.

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.

It takes a lot of bad writing to get to a little good writing.

There's no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else comes with it

Writing about racism requires a directness that writing a love story does not.

The three things that help writing the most are living, writing, and reading. In that order.

Writing is not just the technical act of your fingers on the keyboard. Writing is living.

I'm writing new music all the time. I'm just not writing pop stuff. It's not my goal.

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

For me writing has always felt like praying even when I wasn't writing prayers.

O MY WIFE-who made the writing of my previous book a pleasure and writing of the present one a necessity.

I could easily go through all my books and mark the ones that were original, mark the ones that were adapted or pre-published that I've found. I'm guessing though that probably 75% of them are personal events. I just love a personal story.

Writing is sacred, other activities are profane, and I don't want them to corrupt my writing.

The Sopranos all came down to the writing. I wouldn't have been on for as long as I was if the writing weren't so good.

'The Sopranos' all came down to the writing. I wouldn't have been on for as long as I was if the writing weren't so good.

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

The biggest thing this has in common with almost all of our records is the dualities are still there. We kind of stripped down the other things we were writing about, and that's what was left. A lot of good things have happened to us in the last couple of years both as a band and in our personal lives. But something as wonderful as having children also brings along these new fears and terrors and responsibilities.

Everyone eventually winds up writing about themselves - the problem is finding the best way to go about it. To write about oneself literally, in the first person, presumes a more interesting personal life and philosophy than most rock lyricists possess. John Lennon was good for one great album based on musical direct address, 'Plastic Ono Band.

The purpose of the mission must be thoroughly understood beforehand, and the men must be inspired with a sense of personal dedication that knows no limitations... In an age of high technology and Jedi Knights, we often overlook the need for personal involvement, but we do so at our own risk.

Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on.

I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic.

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

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. Every now and then I wrote something, and every now and then I didn't. The second just outnumbered the first.

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

What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.

I was writing since I can remember - I just didn't know it was poetry yet, or that writing could be a career.

I usually dread writing non-fiction. I don't feel comfortable or confident writing essays and the like.

I'm honestly as happy writing Superman Adventures as I am writing Wanted.

What the Black lives matter movement is doing is they are making it personal. They are making it hash tagged, exposing the racial injustice that continues to haunt our country in a way that you can't ignore. There is power in injustice becoming personal.

Reading and writing don't inevitably go together. You can read without learning a thing about writing, grammar, or spelling, although, you certainly can't learn anything about writing, grammar, or spelling unless you read.

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

Well, predominately, if I'm writing for another artist, I'm sitting there with them and we're writing it together.

Every piece of music is a form of personal expression for its creator...If a work doesnt express the composers own personal point of view, his own ideas, then it doesnt, in my opinion, even deserve to be born.