Top 1200 Teaching Writing Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

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

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

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.

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

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.

Writing novels is so much more satisfying than writing television.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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