Top 1200 Successful Writing Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

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

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

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

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

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

Writers have problems writing sex scenes, because writing one really well is pornography.

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

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.

Writing, real writing, should leave a small sweet bruise somewhere on the writer . . . and on the reader.

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

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

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

Never mistake talking about writing for actual writing.

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

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.

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

I had made all these rules for myself: I'm not writing social commentary, I'm not writing love songs.

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

I work very hard on the writing, writing and rewriting and trying to weed out the lumber.

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

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.

If you have that belief - pure belief in your heart - that you want to be successful then you can talk to your mind and your mind will control you to be successful.

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 started writing after college, slowly, secretly writing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I have been writing poetry for a long time now. I started writing in my school days.

I treat both acting and writing as a creation - writing is just another element or aspect of it.

I spent as much time writing proposals in '98 and '99 as I did writing scripts.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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 like the physical action of writing down by hand, and I don't just use it for writing my fiction.

I feel confident writing on my feet with improv, but it's different when you're sitting down and writing it out.

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

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

Writing is a performance art for me. They're very closely aligned, writing and performing. But I'm a writer, not a performer.