Top 1200 Writing Code Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

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

For all forms, writing dialogue is almost like writing music. I pay close attention to rhythms and tones.

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.

I don't think writing open-ended lyrics is necessarily an important part of writing good pop songs.

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

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

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

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

The main thing about writing is... writing. Sitting your butt down in the chair and doing the work.

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.

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

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.

If you have a dream of writing, that's wishful thinking. If you have a commitment to writing, that's the way to make your dreams come true.

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

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

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

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.

I basically wrote the code and the specs and documentation for how the client and server talked to each other.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I don't do much of anything consciously in writing - in poetry writing, anyway, prose usually being a different matter, of course.

'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.

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.

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

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

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.

Being a writer involves writing. You've got to commit to sitting down and writing instead of Xbox or Netflix.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

I came to Hollywood originally writing comedy and writing satire.

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

Fanaticism? No. Writing is exciting and baseball is like writing. You can never tell with either how it will go.

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

I'm not writing for fundamentalists. I'm writing for the people who have been repelled by that kind of thinking and yet who think there might be something they haven't yet discovered.

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

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

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

I did a minor in creative writing in college, but I didn't start writing until I stayed at home with my own children.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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