Top 1200 Writing Essays Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

'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.

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

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.

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.

For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn't poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse.

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

In a series of wonderful essays, Evan Handler gives himself up to us - warts and all. To our amusement and bemusement we share in his emotional growth as he struggles to mature. I not only laughed along with him but felt that I too had grown a little along the way. Who could ask for more?

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

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

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

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

It's insane to be a writer and not be a reader. When I'm writing I'm more likely to be reading four or five books at once, just in bits and pieces rather than subjecting myself to a really brilliant book and thinking, "Well what's the point of me writing anything?" I'm more likely to read a book through when I take a break from writing.

I write about what I'm thinking about. I write about what is bothering me or what is a political, aesthetic, or ethical issue or something, and then I figure out how to do it. I don't write essays that kind of just sustain one thought. I tend to move around because that's what I like.

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

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 came to Hollywood originally writing comedy and writing satire.

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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

In my essays and articles I have been saying again and again that the case of Israel and Palestine, the case of Israel and the Arab world, and indeed the case of Israel and Europe, is not black and white. It's not a western movie.

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

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

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.

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

Amartya Sen is best known to the general reader for his powerful essays on famine. He is an optimist about some of our gravest economic problems, such as mass starvation in a world that at present can easily produce more food than everyone can eat. Reason and voluntary participation are his watchwords.

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 wrote a book called ‘Dancing The Dream’. It was more autobiographical than Moonwalk, which I did with Mrs. Onassis. It wasn’t full of gossip and scandal and all that trash that people write, so I don’t think people paid much attention to it, but it came from my heart. It was essays, thoughts and things that I’ve thought about while on tour

I started writing after college, slowly, secretly writing.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

A foreign correspondent is someone who lives in foreign parts and corresponds, usually in the form of essays containing no new facts. Otherwise he's someone who flies around from hotel to hotel and thinks that the most interesting thing about any story is the fact that he has arrived to cover it.

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.

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

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.