Top 1200 Prose Writing Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

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In teaching writing, I'm learning new things about writing.

When you're writing for a show, you're writing part of the script. You have to tell the story.

I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry - writing at writing.

Never mistake talking about writing for actual writing.

I do not think you should read about writing while you are writing.

Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat raggedly on into the future.

When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm not writing for American Scholar.

It's not writing in the traditional sense, but I've always said that the writing process continues on the set and even into the editing room.

I think finally good writing gets out there, and people like it, and bad writing doesn't. Well, no. Bad writing does get out there 'cause some people like it.

From the moment that photography appeared, the descriptive genre began to invade Letters... In verse as in prose the décor and exterior aspects of life took an almost excessive place.

And I love writing; I've been writing ever since I was seven.

I grow very impatient with prose writers who don't pay attention to the cadence of the sentence. If you start as a poet, you're wooed by the music of language; you want to put that into your practice.

Writing pilots is such a specific thing. It's not even really writing TV shows. A pilot is its own beast.

When I'm writing, sometimes it gets to that place where I feel like the piece is writing itself and I'm trying not to get in the way

Ultimately, it's about the quality of the writing whatever style you are writing.

Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.

I don't want to write poems that are just really clear about how I'm aware of all the traps involved in writing poetry; I don't want to write fiction that's about the irresponsibility of writing fiction and I've thrown out a lot of writing that I think was ultimately tainted by that kind of self-awareness.

Being a writer involves writing. You've got to commit to sitting down and writing instead of Xbox or Netflix.

I love writing. Writing has been very good to me.

Mandy Sutter's 'Bush Meat' triumphs in its lean prose and true dialogue, in its disarming humour, in its evocation of a family divided by sexism and racism in 1960s Nigeria.

When I'm writing something, everything falls into place. When I'm not writing, stuff keeps happening to me, and there's nowhere to put it all.

Writing reminds you that you're never alone. Writing and reading is to be optimistic.

Writing is such a powerful tool. I believe everyone should be writing.

Yes, writing is not easy. But can any writer imagine NOT writing?

I started writing after college, slowly, secretly writing.

Poetry is easier to learn than prose. Once you have learned it you can use it as a light and a laser. It shows up your true situation and it helps you cut through it.

I sometimes don't know what I'm writing when I start writing it, on some level.

There is no left and right in writing. There is only good and bad writing.

I tend to delay writing by doing more research - it's really the act of writing the piece that I have the hardest time with.

Writing for me, even what you call serious writing, is play.

Writing dialogue is like writing a song, which I've done.

There are a lot of editorials that have nothing to do with anything like that. But I was just thinking of that sense of prose as being very responsible and perceptive, thoughtful, intimate, and contriving a quote statement.

I think there are a lot of similarities between writing and music. Music is much more direct and much more emotional and that's the level I want to be at when I'm writing. Writing is much more intellectual and indirect and abstract, in a way.

Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.

I don't think writing open-ended lyrics is necessarily an important part of writing good pop songs.

Rachel Cusk's books are like pop-up volumes for grown-ups, the prose springing out of the page to bop you neatly between the eyes with its insights.

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.

If you have a dream of writing, that's wishful thinking. If you have a commitment to writing, that's the way to make your dreams come true.

A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed, generally finding that some of these achievements are acceptable, while others are less so.

I'm not writing for fundamentalists. I'm writing for the people who have been repelled by that kind of thinking and yet who think there might be something they haven't yet discovered.

Fanaticism? No. Writing is exciting and baseball is like writing. You can never tell with either how it will go.

Fantasy is my genre and my home in the writing world. I consider it the biggest writing room in all literature, where there are literally no boundaries at all.

I think writing, my writing, is a species of mediumship. I become the person.

You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.

I'm writing my biography. It's my business. This is what happened in my life, and I'm writing about it.

'A Fair Maiden' existed in notes and sketches for perhaps a year. When I traveled, I would take along with me my folder of notes - 'ideas for stories.' Eventually, I began to write it and wrote it fairly swiftly - in perhaps two months of fairly intense writing and rewriting. Most of my time writing is really re-writing.

In an idealized world, we would all be able to do what our English teachers told us to do, which is to write beautiful prose where enthusiasm is conveyed by word choice and grammar.

I didn't originally intend on writing a book. I started writing during the day to feel like I was accomplishing something creative.

The point always is to be writing something - it leads to more writing.

I've found it really hard to finish writing songs when you're writing on not just your schedule but somebody else's.

In terms of graphic versus prose, I could probably do a lecture on that topic. But what stood out most was the difference in pacing the language and resulting scenes. One illustration can do so much for the reader.

Music's always part of my writing. I think all art is interconnected. You can't create or experience one without its influences bleeding into another. In my writing, music's mostly something that feeds my inspiration and mood while I'm writing, but it's also taught me how to score scenes and even novels. The rise and fall of the storyline echoes the flow of a good piece of music.

writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all

I think I came to film-making through writing. I started to write, and people, teachers, responded to my writing.

I came to Hollywood originally writing comedy and writing satire.

Writing must certainly be one of the hardest professions - writing and painting.

For me, the process of writing a novel happens mostly in your head before you actually start writing.

Writing is possibly an art, but crime writing is definitely a craft.

I've always liked the idea that writing is a form of travel. And I started my writing career as a mystery novelist for adults.