Top 1200 Purpose Of Writing Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I started writing after college, slowly, secretly writing.

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

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

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

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

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

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'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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

The purpose of relationship may not be what you think. If you are excited about forming a relationship based on what it looks like you can get, rather than what you can give, you have started off on the wrong foot entirely, and you could be heading for a big disappointment. The purpose of all relationships is to create a sacred context within which you can express the fullness of who you are. And who you are is an experience you have before you enter relationship, not because you did.

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

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

For a long time, I saw writing prose as chewing rocks compared to the velocities of writing poetry.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

I don't think there's any essential difference, at least for me, between writing poetry and writing prose.