Top 1200 Personal Writing Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Every day, I write. I have a writing period - it's usually in the morning - or I'm writing songs.

Writing is storytelling. No matter how you slice it, you're saying, 'Once upon a time.' That's what writing is all about.

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

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

I always start with writing vocal melodies before writing lyrics.

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

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

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

I came out with a book called The True Secret of Writing: Connecting Life with Language. It's a book that describes how writing is a practice and how my teaching is part of that practice. I direct the writing and create books but underneath, there's always the river of practice happening. No good, no bad. Just do it.

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

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

The freedom of man is, in political liberalism, freedom from persons, from personal dominion, from the master; the securing of each individual person against other persons, personal freedom.

When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.

There's such good writing now on television and I don't see a lot of great writing on films sadly.

When you're really caught up in writing a poem, it can be a form of prayer. I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer. I feel it in different degrees and not with every poem. But in certain ways writing is a form of prayer.

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

When I wrote and got out of the way, writing did writing.” (p.90)

Writing Charles Dickens' biography is like writing five biographies.

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

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

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.

Writing novels is so much more satisfying than writing television.

Sometimes I like to think it would be nice if you just had a character, and your personal life was your personal life. My life is definitely out there, you know?

Why should it be difficult for someone to claim their personal reaction, especially in this time where we are only too happy to share our personal reactions about everything, no matter how trivial. Maybe the answer is conditioning. This is pure conjecture, but I think people go to museums to participate.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

I stopped writing fiction the moment I started writing songs, and I miss it.

When you're writing for a TV show, what's great is that you always know what actor you're writing to.

I'll be writing until I can't write anymore. It's a compulsion with me. I love writing.

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

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

I like the physical action of writing down by hand, and I don't just use it for writing my fiction.

Writing eases my suffering . . . writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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