Top 1200 Teaching Writing Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.

For me writing has always felt like praying even when I wasn't writing prayers.

There's no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else comes with it

I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic.

What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.

The traditional paradigm of parenting has been very hierarchical, the parent knows best and very top down. Conscious parenting topples [this paradigm] on its head and creates this mutuality, this circularity where both parent and child serve each other and where in fact, perhaps, the child could be even more of a guru for the parent .... teaching the parent how the parent needs to grow, teaching the parent how to enter the present moment like only children know how to do.

I do a lot of writing. People don't actually know how much writing really I do.

Writing is sacred, other activities are profane, and I don't want them to corrupt my writing.

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.

Writing about racism requires a directness that writing a love story does not.

I don't think anyone is ever writing so that you can throw it away. You're always writing it to be something. Later, you decide whether it'll ever see the light of day. But at the moment of its writing, it's always meant to be something. So, to me, there's no practicing; there's only editing and publishing or not publishing.

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

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

'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.

When I'm writing, I'm in an isolation chamber. I'm not one to think about that outside world stuff when I'm writing.

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

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

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

Well, predominately, if I'm writing for another artist, I'm sitting there with them and we're writing it together.

I usually dread writing non-fiction. I don't feel comfortable or confident writing essays and the like.

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

I figure I wrote 37 songs in 20 years, and that's not exactly a full-time job. It wasn't that I was writing and writing and writing and quit. Every now and then I wrote something, and every now and then I didn't. The second just outnumbered the first.

Writing was always a laborious thing for me. I never wrote fluently, I never wrote fluidly, there was something very awkward in my writing. But it seemed to me purposely awkward. It's almost as if I made the labor part of writing.

Reading and writing don't inevitably go together. You can read without learning a thing about writing, grammar, or spelling, although, you certainly can't learn anything about writing, grammar, or spelling unless you read.

In undeveloped social groups, we find very little formal teaching and training. Savage groups mainly rely for instilling needed dispositions into the young upon the same sort of association which keeps adults loyal to their group. They have no special devices, material, or institutions for teaching save in connection with initiation ceremonies by which the youth are inducted into full social membership. For the most part, they depend upon children learning the customs of the adults, acquiring their emotional set and stock of ideas, by sharing in what the elders are doing.

I was writing since I can remember - I just didn't know it was poetry yet, or that writing could be a career.

I love writing traditional magazine pieces, and especially their breadth of reporting and the deliberateness of the writing.

Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on.

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

Writing is not just the technical act of your fingers on the keyboard. Writing is living.

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

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

Writing of that caliber spoils you for any other kind of writing for awhile. But that's probably good.

O MY WIFE-who made the writing of my previous book a pleasure and writing of the present one a necessity.

I always start with writing vocal melodies before writing lyrics.

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

Writing with a film in mind - writing like a screenplay - is a sureshot recipe for disaster.

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

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

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

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

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

It needs more than ever to be stressed that the best and truest educators are parents under God. The greatest school is the family. In learning, no act of teaching in any school or university compares to the routine task of mothers in teaching a babe who speaks no language the mother tongue in so short a time. No other task in education is equal to this. The moral training of the children, the discipline of good habits, is an inheritance from the parents to the children which surpasses all other. The family is the first and basic school of man.

There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me to add to that huge number of people writing here when there are so few people writing about somewhere else.

The easiest thing I do is assignment songs. They tell me what they need me to write. I can do that fairly quickly. Writing for an orchestra is difficult. Writing songs [on your own] is most difficult of all. Though [writing for] the orchestra is close.

I have been writing since I was old enough to spell. I have never considered not writing.

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

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

When my second husband shouted, 'Me or your writing!' I replied, 'My writing.' We separated.

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

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

It's much harder when you're writing about your life, than when you're writing fiction.

I'm writing new music all the time. I'm just not writing pop stuff. It's not my goal.

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

For me, the hardest part is getting up and writing, that's the hard part. I always felt like I could teach someone to direct if I really had to. I feel like it's a skill that's passable, but writing... writing is the worst. That's what I'm doing right now, it's just the hardest thing that you'll ever do.

When you're not writing, you're not doing anything else either because everything you do goes into the writing.

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

There's no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else comes with it.

Writing Charles Dickens' biography is like writing five biographies.