Top 1200 Prose Writing Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

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

Poetry is a language for when you can't quite write prose about something, you can't quite say it, but if you do a poem, it kind of gets to the point.

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

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

I read a lot of autobiographical stories, and I write plays and prose. And I play piano and cello. A lot of my downtime is devoted to that.

I spent as much time writing proposals in '98 and '99 as I did writing scripts.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Writing a song is like - you're writing a song all the time. It's just when it pops out. It's been there all the time. It's not something that suddenly you do it. It's always there. Suddenly, it's in the right mixture inside you to come out. Usually when you're writing on the piano or a guitar, you don't write in lyrics, on their own. To me it's very boring.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought, patience or goodwill.

The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose.

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

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

I would rather write poems than prose, any day, any place. Yet each has its own force.

If a man means his writing seriously, he must mean to write well. But how can he write well until he learns to see what he has written badly. His progress toward good writing and his recognition of bad writing are bound to unfold at something like the same rate.

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

You find yourself writing the truth, because it's like, 'Well, I ain't writing for anyone but myself anyway.'

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

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

Israel is moving from the realm of poetry to the realm of prose.

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

Agitation is all about poetry, governance is all about prose.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

These are two opposing forces, and whenever I am in active politics, I stop writing. And when I'm writing, I don't politick.

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

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

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

I really don't have a lot in common with the people who attend the Comic Con. It's like assuming that all people who write prose are the same.

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