Top 1200 Successful Writing Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

To me, writing is fun. It doesn't matter what you're writing, as long as you can tell a story.

In my writing, I focus lenses. I'm almost always seeing when I am writing.

A cookbook is not like being an author. It's writing down recipes; it's not writing.

When I wrote and got out of the way, writing did writing.” (p.90)

So, whenever I'm writing, I'm writing in the presence of all the other books I've read and I think we all are.

America has this fascination with glorifying the villain and not talking about the trials and tribulations. We tell the story of the successful villain a lot of times, but we don't tell the story of the people who don't come out so successful, and we don't tell the story of all the bystanders of that choice.

I'll be writing until I can't write anymore. It's a compulsion with me. I love writing.

I stopped writing fiction the moment I started writing songs, and I miss it.

There's such good writing now on television and I don't see a lot of great writing on films sadly.

One of the ready advantages of writing a road or quest story is that it mirrors the experience of writing a novel.

You have to remember that writing itself is so solitary. You start writing because you're lonely.

Writing Charles Dickens' biography is like writing five biographies.

You can be far more challenging, articulate and intelligent writing for television than you can writing for the cinema.

I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic.

Writing, for me, means humility. It’s a process that involves fear and doubt, especially if you’re writing honestly.

Writing novels is so much more satisfying than writing television.

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.

When you have a writing partner and you're writing a comedy, your goal is to make each other laugh.

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

'The Sopranos' all came down to the writing. I wouldn't have been on for as long as I was if the writing weren't so good.

The Sopranos all came down to the writing. I wouldn't have been on for as long as I was if the writing weren't so good.

writing is how I understand everything that happens. Writing is the only way I know to move on.

When I'm writing I don't dream much; it's like the dreaming gets used in the writing.

As far as when I'm writing a song, I think I'm writing first and foremost for myself.

The only thing that makes me crazier than writing is not writing.

The three things that help writing the most are living, writing, and reading. In that order.

So what comes naturally to me is writing lyrics and writing songs and telling stories.

When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.

Writing eases my suffering . . . writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.

I've only ever taken a playwriting class, but I like creative writing and writing screenplays.

If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.

It takes a lot of bad writing to get to a little good writing.

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

I despise writing in general, but yeah, I love writing the stuff that I direct.

I always start with writing vocal melodies before writing lyrics.

I've been writing stories since I was 12. 'Writer's Digest' was one of my writing teachers, actually.

Pivotal to a happy writing life is a practice of daily personal writing.

I came out with a book called The True Secret of Writing: Connecting Life with Language. It's a book that describes how writing is a practice and how my teaching is part of that practice. I direct the writing and create books but underneath, there's always the river of practice happening. No good, no bad. Just 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.

You want the film to be critically successful - you certainly want the film to be financially successful so that you can...well, because that's how movies like this are made, you know, they need to make money. But as a director, you can only make the movie that you want to make.

I am writing things on my own, but I really believe co-writing makes you a better writer.

Usually when I'm writing, I kind of know what it is before I start writing and I write stream of consciousness style.

The cool thing about writing music, writing anything, is that once you publish it, it's there forever.

I feel like if you compare yourself to other successful musicians you will never be successful, because there will always be someone above you who has done something more or done something first or done something better.

I'm not in the practice commonly of writing checks just for the fun of writing them.

Usually with film writing I start with characters, and set about writing their story.

Every day, I write. I have a writing period - it's usually in the morning - or I'm writing songs.

I'm a fan of writing, and writing letters, because I hate when I'm trying to get a thought out, and I can't.

Just write and love what you're writing. And if you're not loving what you're writing, take a look at why and fix that.

If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.

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

Writing provides no guarantees. And writers who stay with writing do it for reasons that are larger than self.

I'm honestly as happy writing Superman Adventures as I am writing Wanted.

Writing a picture book is like writing 'War and Peace' in Haiku.

My job is writing for people to enjoy and then writing about a broader and a deeper world.

I'm a fairly fast, but sloppy writer, so I'm a big fan of re-writing, and re-writing again.

When you're writing for a TV show, what's great is that you always know what actor you're writing to.

Not writing is as important as writing - go out into the world and remember how interesting it, and the people in it, are.

Writing for other people is easier than writing for myself - it's not as personal.

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