Top 1200 Writing And Thinking Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

What is useful about when there is a sort of pull-out to reveal moment going on is that it actually focuses the mind when you're writing the earlier scenes because you're thinking 'right, how do I? I can only show this amount of the room... I can only show these characters from the waist up because they've all got robot legs!' it's a challenge so it keeps you engaged on some level.

I didn't originally intend on writing a book. I started writing during the day to feel like I was accomplishing something creative.

It's not writing in the traditional sense, but I've always said that the writing process continues on the set and even into the editing room.

I'm just doing what I want. I'm not thinking, like, 'Today I'm going to dress like a woman.' I'm not even thinking about that. I'm just thinking, 'I want to wear this today; I want to be this today.'

I try to sort of make myself emotional in the moment when I'm writing, and that always translates better. When I'm writing, I can't do abstract.

I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since.

There's exceptional work being done on television. Some of our great writers are writing for television. When you have things to choose from, you typically go after the writing - unless you're going after the money. There are fewer opportunities in film to make money with good writing, unless you're an action hero.

When I'm writing something, everything falls into place. When I'm not writing, stuff keeps happening to me, and there's nowhere to put it all.

Militarism is basically a way of thinking, a certain interpretation of the function of the state; this manner of thinking is, moreover, revealed by its outer forms: by armaments and state organization.

I can remember, when I was in college, irritating deeply somebody I was going out with, because he would ask me what I was thinking and I would say I was thinking nothing. And it was true.

I write books because I have always been fascinated by stories and language, and because I love thinking about what makes people tick. Writing a story... 'The Giver' or any other... is simply an exploration of the nature of behavior: why people do what they do, how it affects others, how we change and grow, and what decisions we make along the way.

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.

Like a lover who spends all his time thinking of his distant love, God has been thinking of me since before I was born, for all eternity.

Learning can be a bridge between doing and thinking. But then there is a danger that the person who uses learning as a bridge between doing and thinking may get stuck in learning and never get on to thinking.

My head is full of songs I'm writing now, and things I am thinking now. I'm not very good at drawing on things that have happened, things I think might happen, or things I want to happen. I'm very much in right now.

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 can see there's a connection between not following normal thinking and doing creative thinking. I wouldn't have had good scientific ideas if I had thought more normally.

Here's one from me: 'You have to be aware that everyone else is thinking far too hard about themselves to be thinking about you, whoever you are.' If you want it, you can have it. Once you know that, you can be free.

My job is to work at song writing and singing and telling the truth in song writing. My job is to be courageous enough to go on stage and tell the truth, the same truth that's gone into my song writing.

I think I came to film-making through writing. I started to write, and people, teachers, responded to my writing.

I think it's dangerous to think you know what you're writing. I usually don't know, and usually I just discover it in the course of writing. I envy those writers who can outline a beginning, a middle, and end. Fitzgerald supposedly did it. John Irving does. Bret Easton Ellis does. But for me, the writing itself is the process of discovery. I can't see all that far ahead.

I have always believed that writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. The first, of course, is ransom notes.

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

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

If you think about writing a book, or when I did, it seems daunting, but when I began writing, it just started flowing.

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.

One of the great things about being commander in chief is getting to know our men and women in uniform in a very intimate way, whether it's visiting Walter Reed and seeing our wounded soldiers, or being on a base and talking to families, or interacting with them on missions. They're the best of the best: always thinking about the mission, not thinking about credit, not thinking about who's up front.

Fantasy is my genre and my home in the writing world. I consider it the biggest writing room in all literature, where there are literally no boundaries at all.

I'm more interested in the writing than in the content per se (good writing can be about wallpaper and I'll devour it).

I love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself and I get to make up the rules of the world that I'm writing.

I have been writing songs since I was 9 years old, so writing has and always will be my first love and passion.

When I'm writing, sometimes it gets to that place where I feel like the piece is writing itself and I'm trying not to get in the way.

I saw a muskrat come out of a hole in the ice ... While I am looking at him, I am thinking what he is thinking of me. He is a different sort of man, that's all.

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

The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry.

If Christians cannot communicate as thinking beings, they are reduced to encountering one another only at the shallow level of gossip and small talk. Hence the perhaps peculiarly modern problem - the loneliness of the thinking Christian.

Writing a novel is a very hard thing to do because it covers so long a space of time, and if you get discouraged it is not a bad sign, but a good one. If you think you are not doing it well, you are thinking the way real novelists do. I never knew one who did not feel greatly discouraged at times, and some get desperate, and I have always found that to be a good symptom.

Thinking you've had depression makes about as much sense as thinking you've been run over by a bus. Trust me - you know when you've got depression.

When I'm recording a song, I wake up and I'm thinking about it. I go to sleep and I'm thinking about it.

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything except our thinking. Thus, we are drifting toward catastrophe beyond conception. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

News writing and sports writing have become synonymous. And it started with, you know, free agency, and now it's in the concussion debate.

The world so clamors for action that men and women devote little time to thinking. Many believe in secondhand thinking. They find it easier to ascertain and adopt the thoughts of others than to think for themselves.

I've found it really hard to finish writing songs when you're writing on not just your schedule but somebody else's.

There is a difference between writing and being an author. Authors talk. I'm standing here talking now. This has nothing to do with writing.

For me, the process of writing a novel happens mostly in your head before you actually start writing.

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

Thinking and spoken discourse are the same thing, except that what we call thinking is, precisely, the inward dialogue carried on by the mind with itself without spoken sound.

We have to stop thinking about ourselves so much and start thinking about the environment. We have to change.

Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.

I wasn't thinking so much of music. I wasnt thinking so much of perfection or stardom or any of that stuff.

I think a lot of people don't understand that when I sit out it's not because of this year. I'm thinking about long term. I'm thinking about after I'm done with basketball.

I was someone who wanted to be a writer but who wasn't writing. I was someone buying books on writing. I was someone telling people that I was writer. But I was not writing.

I've always liked the idea that writing is a form of travel. And I started my writing career as a mystery novelist for adults.

I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.

I've always been a fan of plain writing. I hate metaphor-laden, heavily larded, lyrical writing.

When I'm writing, sometimes it gets to that place where I feel like the piece is writing itself and I'm trying not to get in the way

I wasn't thinking that I was two horrors back to back; I was thinking these were characters that I want to play.

Writing pilots is such a specific thing. It's not even really writing TV shows. A pilot is its own beast.

Thinking about language, while thinking _in_ language, leads to puzzles and paradoxes.