Top 1200 Short Writing Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 originally intend on writing a book. I started writing during the day to feel like I was accomplishing something creative.

We lost three very young, very talented drivers in a really short time and that had a lot of influence, too. Certainly Dale's death was a huge smack in the face to everybody, but all those deaths in such a short period of time was awful. It forced people to look at it and say, 'Hey, this isn't a coincidence. There's something going on'.

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.

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

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.

For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.

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

I do not think it is "selling America short" when we ask a great deal of her; on the contrary, it is those who ask nothing, those who see no fault, who are really selling America short!

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

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

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

A lot of people who want to see the short story have a renaissance of readership - they tend to think of short stories, and sometimes poems too, as being well-suited to the way we now live, with all of these broken-up bits of time. I hope they're right, but my sense is that our fiction reading has become, if anything, more cherished as a kind of escape from fragmentation.

Even so does he who provides for the short time of this life, but takes no care for all eternity; which is to be wise for a moment, but a fool for ever; and to act as crossly to the reason of things as can be imagined; to regard time as if it were eternity, and to neglect eternity as if it were but a short time.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

We curate our lives around this perceived sense of perfection, because we get rewarded in these short term signals: Hearts, likes, thumbs up. We conflate that with value, and we conflate it with truth, and instead, what it really is is fake, brittle popularity that's short term and leaves you even more vacant and empty before you did it.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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 think writing open-ended lyrics is necessarily an important part of writing good pop songs.

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