Top 1200 Successful Writing Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

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

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.

I don't find writing for the theater that different from writing a rock song.

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 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.

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

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

I think writing, my writing, is a species of mediumship. I become the person.

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

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

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

In teaching writing, I'm learning new things about writing.

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.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Writing must certainly be one of the hardest professions - writing and painting.

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.

Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.

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

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

Writing for me, even what you call serious writing, is play.

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 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.

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.

In my mind at that time, at 14, the men who were successful were Stallone and Schwarzenegger and guys like that - Harrison Ford - who were these men of action. I was like, "Okay, they're successful, they're not getting evicted, they built their bodies - I'm gonna go build my body." It was like that.

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

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 tend to delay writing by doing more research - it's really the act of writing the piece that I have the hardest time with.

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

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

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

When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm not writing for American Scholar.

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

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

I mean, there's a little bit that gets out, but for the most part, the thing that makes us work, and makes our family successful, and our life successful, is when we walk home and we walk into our doors of our house, all that other stuff is left outside. It's not a factor.

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.

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.

There is no left and right in writing. There is only good and bad writing.

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

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

I came to Hollywood originally writing comedy and writing satire.

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

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

'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.

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.