Top 1200 Teaching Writing Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I came to Hollywood originally writing comedy and writing satire.

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

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

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.

Imitation is very easy, and the whole culture and society depends on imitation. Everybody is telling you how to behave, and whatsoever they are teaching you is nothing but imitation. Religious people - the so-called religious people, the priests, the theologians - they are also teaching you, `Be like Jesus, be like Buddha, be like Krishna.` Nobody ever tells you, `Just be yourself` - nobody. Everybody is against you, it seems. Nobody allows you to be yourself, nobody gives you any freedom. You can be in this world, but you must imitate somebody.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Never mistake talking about writing for actual writing.

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

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.

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

Ultimately, it's about the quality of the writing whatever style you are 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 sometimes don't know what I'm writing when I start writing it, on some level.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 started writing after college, slowly, secretly writing.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.