Top 1200 Purpose Of Writing Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

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

'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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Never mistake talking about writing for actual writing.

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.

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.

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.

Soul mates are brought together for a reason. All their lives they have been preparing for each other. When they look back at their lives they will see a new purpose to actions they have taken. Their lives take on a sense of oneness equalled by no other. Oneness of purpose, ambition, and love which can be a beacon to others along their spiritual paths.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I came to Hollywood originally writing comedy and writing satire.

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

Women can do anything men can do. Except math, chess, running, jumping, lifting stuff, fixing things, making money, hockey, surfing, driving, making decisions, being tall, taking out the garbage, tipping, fishing, being funny (on purpose), reading a map, listening to good bands, writing, running the country, inventing anything important, or being fun to hang out with.

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.

I don't do much of anything consciously in writing - in poetry writing, anyway, prose usually being a different matter, of course.

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.

Eventually, you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is. The journey may take many lifetimes, but you will complete it. It is impossible not to complete it. It is not a question of if but of when. Every situation you create serves this purpose. Every experience you encounter serves this purpose.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

My first reaction in pastoral care is not to explain. And again, I don't think the primary purpose of the Bible is to explain suffering. I never have, because the actual explanations are often inadequate. I think the primary purpose of Scripture is to say I am all you need in this suffering and I need comfort.

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

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

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.

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.

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.