Top 1200 Prose Writing Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

When I turned to writing fantasy, and writing for young people, it was joyous. It was like discovering an underground lake of ideas that went on forever.

I think poetry should be read very much like prose, except that the line breaks should be acknowledged somehow.

I try to sort of make myself emotional in the moment when I'm writing, and that always translates better. When I'm writing, I can't do abstract.

There's exceptional work being done on television. Some of our great writers are writing for television. When you have things to choose from, you typically go after the writing - unless you're going after the money. There are fewer opportunities in film to make money with good writing, unless you're an action hero.

There is a difference between writing and being an author. Authors talk. I'm standing here talking now. This has nothing to do with writing.

I didn't take writing seriously at first - I didn't think I could do it. When I did, I fell in love with it. But writing is very lonely.

It's insane to be a writer and not be a reader. When I'm writing I'm more likely to be reading four or five books at once, just in bits and pieces rather than subjecting myself to a really brilliant book and thinking, "Well what's the point of me writing anything?" I'm more likely to read a book through when I take a break from writing.

Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope, some day, to find something to say.

I do labor - it's part of the process. Writing is no easier today than it was in the beginning: writing well is very hard to do. Always.

Writing is a form of talking, although writing is such an odd thing in and of itself. People go about it in such different ways.

Writing is a sedentary gig unless one has a treadmill desk. But I have long believed writing and working out are complementary disciplines.

I have been writing songs since I was 9 years old, so writing has and always will be my first love and passion.

I love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself and I get to make up the rules of the world that I'm writing.

I tend to elongate the sentences as I'm writing and editing, and there is just something about the feeling of writing longhand that I really love.

As you continue writing and rewriting, you begin to see possibilities you hadn't seen before. Writing a poem is always a process of discovery.

I'm more interested in the writing than in the content per se (good writing can be about wallpaper and I'll devour it).

Through all this other stuff I was doing, I always went back to the writing, and it was writing that made me feel whole, complete.

I chose law because writing was involved. I didn't realize how boring legal writing was, but I even learned to love that.

In my writing classes, I don't outlaw any genre writing.

There's more than enough in the world I am currently writing about to last for several lifetimes of writing.

My job is to work at song writing and singing and telling the truth in song writing. My job is to be courageous enough to go on stage and tell the truth, the same truth that's gone into my song writing.

On the Internet, everyone is writing. There is a great flowering of writing.

I've always been a fan of plain writing. I hate metaphor-laden, heavily larded, lyrical writing.

My feeling is that writing Fantasy should be harder - not easier - than writing any other kind of fiction.

I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since.

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.

Writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too.

The most important advice I can offer is that writing is a craft that you can learn by practicing. If you keep writing, you will improve.

What keeps me writing is that I can only know through writing. My major sense organ is apparently a pencil.

They ask me what I'm writing for - I'm writing to show you what we're fighting for.

When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.

What matters is not publication or success (success is bad for your prose) but the practice of the imaginative act. Our damaged values depend on it.

I have always believed that writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. The first, of course, is ransom notes.

I don't write toward a genre, and I try not to make claim to a genre after a book is published. That said, The Guardians isn't poetry. It's prose.

With short stories, the story-teller must have a story to tell, not merely some sweet prose to take out for a walk

Writing books isn't a drastic departure from writing for the stage.

I've always been an all around creative person. Song writing and writing are great ways for me to express myself.

What's the challenge in writing a novel that few people will read? I'm more than happy writing what I do and have no plans to change that.

Writing a whole series was a crash course in screenwriting, which is a very different muscle to standup comedy writing.

Once I get my writing done, then I can turn my attention elsewhere - and not the other way around. The writing has to be the foundation.

In a sense, journalism can be both helpful and detrimental to a writer of fiction because the kind of writing you need to do as a journalist is so different. It has to be clear, unambiguous, concise, and as a writer often you are trying to do things that are more ambiguous. I find that writing fiction is often an antidote to reading and writing too much journalism.

People don't stress enough that when they're writing lyrics, they are writing.

I started writing when I was around 6. I say 'writing,' but it was really just making up stuff! I started writing and doing my own thing. I didn't really know what a demo was or anything like that, so I started getting interested in studio gear and started learning about one instrument at a time. My first instrument was an accordion.

For all forms, writing dialogue is almost like writing music. I pay close attention to rhythms and tones.

The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry.

The main thing about writing is... writing. Sitting your butt down in the chair and doing the work.

I was someone who wanted to be a writer but who wasn't writing. I was someone buying books on writing. I was someone telling people that I was writer. But I was not writing.

I've spent most of my life writing and developing everything that I've wanted to be in - which is why I started writing in the first place.

I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.

If you think about writing a book, or when I did, it seems daunting, but when I began writing, it just started flowing.

The best kind of writing, and the biggest thrill in writing, is to suddenly read a line from your typewriter that you didnt know was in you.

News writing and sports writing have become synonymous. And it started with, you know, free agency, and now it's in the concussion debate.

I think it's dangerous to think you know what you're writing. I usually don't know, and usually I just discover it in the course of writing. I envy those writers who can outline a beginning, a middle, and end. Fitzgerald supposedly did it. John Irving does. Bret Easton Ellis does. But for me, the writing itself is the process of discovery. I can't see all that far ahead.

Mother Dolores Hart's prose is a reflection of the inner beauty she has always possessed. A fascinating read... and read again!

All writers have periods when they stop writing, when they cannot write, and this is always painful and terrible because writing is like breathing.

I did a minor in creative writing in college, but I didn't start writing until I stayed at home with my own children.

Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.

My father always told me I should be a writer, and I found I loved writing my autobiography; writing is such an interesting process.

I believe so deeply in the primacy of language, in lifting your prose to the highest level you're capable of and making your words symphonic.

When you are writing, of course, you have to do all that writing and correcting for yourself. When I was a librarian it was expected that I would know about a wide range of books.