Top 1200 Writing Essays Quotes & Sayings - Page 11

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

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

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

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

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

Something outrageous, in the truest sense of the word, is always happening. On social networks, we're always voicing our reactions to these outrageous events. We read essays and 'think pieces' about these outrageous events. We comment on the commentary. We do this because we can.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When you're really caught up in writing a poem, it can be a form of prayer. I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer. I feel it in different degrees and not with every poem. But in certain ways writing is a form of prayer.

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

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.

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

In teaching writing, I'm learning new things about writing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

For me, movies and television are interesting because they are the dominant storytelling form of our time. My first love will always be fiction, and especially novels, but I'm a writer... I write poetry and essays and criticism and I'd love to write a whole play, and sometimes I even write scripts.

From its aptly noirish title on, Martin Preib's The Wagon has rightness of authenticity about it. From the perspective of a cop he fashions a compelling view of the Chicago Algren once called 'the dark city.' There's a unique quality to his essays which manage to be broodingly meditative even as their narrative drive keeps you turning pages.

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

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

Never mistake talking about writing for actual writing.

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

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

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

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'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.

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

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

I love the resource of the Internet. I use it all the time. Anything I'm writing - for example, if I'm writing a scene about Washington D.C. and I want to know where this monument is, I can find it right away, I can get a picture of the monument, it just makes your life so much easier, especially if you're writing fiction. You can check stuff so much quicker, and I think that's all great for writers.

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

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

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

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