Top 1200 Professional Writing Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I'm very comfortable writing in the first person; it dives into the character in a way that's difficult if you're writing in the third person.

I didn't really realize that writing... would be fun and people would pay you to do it. Being an astronaut is a glory profession, and so is writing, in a way.

A thousand things to be written had I time: had I power. A very little writing uses up my capacity for writing.

When you're in Los Angeles, everybody you meet is writing a movie, and they want you to be in it. Every cab driver is writing a movie!

Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil, sit down, and write as it occurs to you. The writing is easy-it's the occurring that's hard.

If you're writing songs by yourself, who's going to tell you if it's good or not? But if you're writing songs with somebody else, you get that immediate feedback.

Acting is contained - you act for three months, then leave it - but writing is the act of creation. Writing is dangerous.

Writing and the hope of writing pulls me back from the edges of despair. I believe insanity and despair are at times one and the same.

A novel, basically, is writing one sentence — then, without violating the scope of the first one, writing the next sentence.

Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and nonfiction. And even there, who can be sure?

As for the healing, that comes from the writing, from living and writing. That's my catharsis. That's why I never regret sharing because it's part of my healing!

I don't know when I'm writing dark. I don't know when I'm writing funny or even heartbreaking. I'm always just trying to write it true.

I think it almost all has to do with coming at writing from an acting perspective, because I didn't, like, study writing. I studied acting.

The difference between and amateur and a professional.. a professional believes if a job is worth doing, it is worth doing well. An amateur believes if a job is worth doing, it very well may be worth doing badly.

I'd say writing songs is, for me, as much playing the tape recorder as it is playing guitar or writing words.

At its best, writing is a dialogue. It's one of the things I love about children's: the fact that this dialogue is really there from the get-go, from the start of writing.

When I first started writing lyrics and stuff, I was writing it to garage, and obviously garage kind of progressed to grime.

I started writing - just generally - when I was 10, there, and started writing songs when I was maybe 11 turning 12.

I don't think writing or co-writing my songs makes me a better singer, but I haven't really got an excuse not to do it as I've got too many opinions!

One of the things that draws writers to writing is that they can get things right that they got wrong in real life by writing about them.

The truth is I'm not really interested in travel writing as it's generally conceived, and even less so in female travel writing.

Sit down every day and DO IT. Writing is a self-taught craft; the more you work at it, the more skilled you become. And when you're not writing, READ.

Writing doesn't leave much time for hobbies, unless you consider that I began writing as a hobby and have made the hobby into a profession.

When you're writing with an artist or for an artist, you have to help them serve their vision. That's the cool part about writing songs. There are no rules.

One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.

Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.

I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction.

It is my contention that the process of reading is part of the process of writing, the necessary completion without which writing can hardly be said to exist.

Good writing , like gold , combines lustrous lucidity with high density. What this means is good writing is packed with hints.

Writing I think, out of what all of us do, writing is the hardest. You're the only who start with nothing except what's up here. You do that. It's really hard I think, acting is not.

The critics suppose that it is easy to write a play. They aren't aware that writing a good play is difficult and writing a bad one is twice as hard.

I have been writing stories and working on ideas for a long time. I like writing and reading a lot, so I jot down ideas.

You don't write for success. That takes part of your attention away from the writing. If you're really doing it, that's all you're doing: writing.

What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally moulds chaos itself into a race of gods.

I haven't shifted language. I'm writing in English because I like it. I'm a sucker for the language, but the good old poems I'm still writing in Russian.

I don't have one favourite spot - I love writing anywhere that I feel inspired. I have to admit that I do love getting cosy in bed or under blankets on the sofa and writing from there.

I'd probably still be a financial journalist now if it weren't for writing novels. Mmm. Fun! I'm much happier writing novels!

I'm not saying that I don't experience people in life as evil, but writing is not a place of alienation; writing is the place where we can try to be human.

I did some professional radio acting as a teenager, and I essentially put myself through college with radio acting in Montreal. When I graduated, I got jobs in professional theatres, repertory, and stock theatres in Canada for a couple of years. And then I went to Stratford, Ontario, where I spent three years with a Shakespeare company. We took a classical play from Stratford to New York City, and I got some good notices there and essentially stayed and did live television. And that brings you to the beginning of filming.

Writing for a soap - writing for 25 characters day in, day out - is one of the most difficult jobs in Hollywood.

I like writing different types of music. I like writing Christian music. I like collaborating with Christian artists. We have a Christian following. I love writing kids' music.

I enjoy writing personal essays in the way of Charles Lamb because it goes back to the school days when I was good in writing essays.

Honestly, the choice is: I can be a cheerful person, more awake to correction, more of a force for good ... when I'm writing. Or I can be the opposite of all those things, when I'm not writing.

I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!

It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself.

I feel like you just need to keep writing until the writing itself just begins to take shape.

Writing cant change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul.

I'm a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of questions without answers.

I hate being called lazy, so when everybody gets up at half seven in the morning, I'm up at the same time. Everyone goes to work and I'll do a few hours of writing, then I'll mess about for a bit and come back to it. By the time I go home I'm done. I think it's really good to keep that kind of a routine with writing. I find that when I don't do that, it's really hard to get back into that headspace of writing.

There would be times when I got so much work that I didn't have time to write. School interfered with writing more than writing with school.

I hate outlines. I have a broad sense of where the story is going; I know the end, I know the end of the principal characters, and I know the major turning points and events from the books, the climaxes for each book, but I don't necessarily know each twist and turn along the way. That's something I discover in the course of writing and that's what makes writing enjoyable. I think if I outlined comprehensively and stuck to the outline the actual writing would be boring.

Writing for TV made way more sense than writing for magazines. And by sense, I mean money.

Acting is more fun than writing. Writing is harder, more like having a term paper.

I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent - you can't just do it like that.

Reading good books is one distraction that will help you become a better writer. And writing - that's the thing - writing is what will really make you a better writer. Write bad stories until you begin to write so-so stories, which might, if you keep at it, turn to writing good stories.

There are so many things that come into writing a recipe, and it's really important if you're writing for home cooks to be cooking like you are at home.

Honesty and truth in writing is so important, and I think that YA writing above all is honest, and I think that appeals to anyone of any age.

When I first had a child, I really had a hard time trying to figure out how it was all going to fit together. Because I felt like, when I was with him, I wanted to be writing and I should be writing. And when I was writing, I felt like I should be with him, and wanted to be with him. So I was unhappy a lot.

In my experience, when you're writing, you want the truth, and you don't want to be apologetic in any way. But there is something in writing, the complexity of it, that works against that aim.

I have a very healthy appetite for good writing and good characters. Having weak writing is my biggest fear.