Top 1200 Writing And Thinking Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

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

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

In terms of my peer group, nobody's parents were dying of old age. There was no dialogue to have among friends. I had that experience, and then 10 years later, I started thinking about writing about it. It's obviously an indelible thing when that happens, and I wasn't looking for material at the time or anything; it just started becoming relevant to me.

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

When I'm writing I don't dream much; it's like the dreaming gets used in the writing.

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

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

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

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

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

Writing novels is so much more satisfying than writing television.

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.

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

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

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

I always start with writing vocal melodies before writing lyrics.

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

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.

One of the goals of analysis is you become your own analyst. You continue the process even if you're not in therapy, whether you continue the process by walking down the street thinking about things or whether you continue the process, as I do, by writing about them.

Writing Charles Dickens' biography is like writing five biographies.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

As one of my creative writing professors once said, there are only seven plots. What makes those plots different is how you handle them, your voice, your style, and your way of thinking. That’s all. People can mimic your style, but they can never achieve your unique point of view.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I came out with a book called The True Secret of Writing: Connecting Life with Language. It's a book that describes how writing is a practice and how my teaching is part of that practice. I direct the writing and create books but underneath, there's always the river of practice happening. No good, no bad. Just do it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

When I was 16 was just thinking about the future and - it sounds so stupid - but what my goal was going to be in life. I guess I was thinking about girls too. No girls liked me. That was bothering me. I was thinking about my height - I had a growth spurt right before high school and then that's when sports coaches started coming up to me, but that's when I had this artistic turn.

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

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

As far as when I'm writing a song, I think I'm writing first and foremost for myself.

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

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

I had a girls' writing retreat at my condo and a bunch of other female writers came down. Me and two other writers got there before everyone and they pitched this idea to me. At first I wasn't sure what direction it was going in, but then once they kind of explained to me what they were thinking, we wrote it.

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

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

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