Top 1200 Writing Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Never mistake talking about writing for actual writing.

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

What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there's another force from inside battling to make us something else.

Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery. The adventure is a metaphysical one: it is a way of approaching life indirectly, of acquiring a total rather than a partial view of the universe. The writer lives between the upper and lower worlds: he takes the path in order eventually to become the path himself.

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

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

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

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

Returning to writing fiction after 13 years away from it. Returning to the rootstock of my whole life as a writer. It's what I had wanted to be for my entire life, since I can remember, since my particular time immemorial. It's how I got my start as a writer.

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 came to Hollywood originally writing comedy and writing satire.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I started writing after college, slowly, secretly writing.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

When I feel that something I'm writing is going well, everything in my life is good and the things in my life that aren't good are completely manageable. If it's not going well, Miss America could be standing there in a swimsuit handing me a nobel price and I wouldn't be happy about it

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.

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

Writing can be a tough gig. Whenever you do something in which you put yourself out there - if that becomes the focus of your life, you miss the point of living. You've really got to get the grounding of family and the things that are important in your life and make that your focus.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.