Top 1200 Writing And Thinking Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I came to Hollywood originally writing comedy and writing satire.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

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

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

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

Ultimately, it's about the quality of the writing whatever style you are writing.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Writing a book is about me doing the work to get from the obsessive particular to something that reaches out of that in some meaningful way. It doesn't come easy to me. I really admire people who do it with acuity, but I don't, and for me it takes the process of working on a book for years to do any thinking that I feel accomplishes anything. I don't do it off the cuff well.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I started writing after college, slowly, secretly writing.

I wish people would quit telling me to think. I think. Thinking's easy. It's not thinking that's hard.

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

Never mistake talking about writing for actual writing.

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

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