Top 1200 Research And Writing Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

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

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

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

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.

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

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 feel with writing, so much of the time, I don't know how to tap in and be spontaneous and alive on a daily basis. So I don't write every day. I'm just not disciplined, and I can't be in the groove most of the time. I feel like I'm in the groove ten days a year or something. But with reading and research, I feel like I have this incredibly instinctive pleasure-driven process that ends up working out for me and inspiring me. It's almost like a maze, like I know eventually I'll hit the heart of my play if I read enough books.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Barry Jones once said that Australia is the only country where the word 'academic' is a pejorative. The academic sector has a vibrant and practical role to play in this complex world of ours. Higher education and research are worthy of your much closer attention. Yes, we can be and should be the clever country. Our progress can be within the highest ethical and moral framework. But this will only happen if we place appropriate emphasis on education, research and innovation within a truly international framework.

You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

For me, writing is something that I need to do. If I'm not writing, I'm not happy.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

Even the new feminist research on sex-role socialization and sex differences has sometimes had the unfortunate consequence of creating a new set of stereotypes about what women feel and how women behave. Despite the large amount of overlap between the sexes in most research, the tendency to label and polarize and thus to exaggerate differences remains in much reporting of data, which may, for example, report the mean scores of male and female populations but not the degree of overlap.

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.

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

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

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

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.