Top 1200 Writing Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

I also believe that writing becomes worthwhile and vitalized only through a full and exciting life.

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.

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

My life often feels like a whirling dervish of kids, writing, speaking, and pastoral ministry.

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 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've been writing a lot of songs about my personal life and identity. That can be a real healing process.

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.

My wife and I are involved in writing/publishing/promotion twenty-four/seven. It isn't a day job; it's life.

Writing is a fearsome but grand vocation—potentially healing but likewise deadly. I wouldn’t trade my life for the world.

What's great about good writing is that it feels like life, so it's not hard to relate to her circumstances.

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.

Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature.

For me writing and filmmaking is a therapeutic process. It reflects themes that I'm going through at a time in my life.

Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.

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

A creative writing class may be one of the last places you can go where your life still matters.

Writing is a strong easement for perplexity. My life is a map, spread out with all the rivers and hills showing.

I believe that there's a force of life in the universe, and that when we're writing or making music or painting, we're likely to connect with that flow.

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

To justify an unorthodox life by writing about it is to re-inscribe the original violation, to re-violate masculine turf.

Life is like a typographical error: we're constantly writing and rewriting things over each other.

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

I think I came to film-making through writing. I started to write, and people, teachers, responded to my 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've always liked the idea that writing is a form of travel. And I started my writing career as a mystery novelist for adults.

My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life.

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

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.

Once I got my life sorted and started to get healthy, then I was able to focus on writing.

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

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.

Writing 'Fast Life' has been an incredible experience. It's something totally different from what I am used to.

I saw myself as a writer, a novelist, even though I was living the life of a mother and housewife. Writing was - and is - what I do.

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.

Let me say that I absolutely loved writing 'A Common Life,' because it was a book about love.

There was a period in my life when I was very young that I wrote a sonnet a day just to learn concision in writing.

I never imagined when I began writing in the early 1960s I'd become professional and my life would be transformed.

Writing 'Dog Stars' was coming home. My spirit just sang. It's what I wanted to do my whole life.

Writing a book isn’t an easy process nor is it always enjoyable, but it is one of life’s most satisfying achievements.

Sadness was something I was thinking about in my life outside of writing, so it wormed itself into whatever I wrote.

It's hard to draw clear lines between writing and life and I don't think it is necessary to or necessarily good to.

Through therapy and a lot of thinking and writing my memoirs, I've been able to use my life as a lesson.

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

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

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

This (writing) is the love of your life. It's what I want to do when I wake up. Nothing feels so absorbing, so fulfilling.

Everything I write has to be connected to my life. One of the things that always comes up in my writing is the search for freedom, especially in women.

I think I've been very lucky all my life because the writing and the faith seem to go together.

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

I was a businessman for 16 years of my life, so when I started writing, I wanted to keep my literary identity separate.

It is in writing of the emotions that style becomes most individual, in moments of passion, betrayal, of life and death.

I'm really not one of these procrastinators who cleans the house in order to put off writing, but life gets in the way.

In my own life, I had gone from Maryland State Honors Chorus and writing and singing my own songs to a musical silence. It seemed the busier my work life would get, the less I had to feed the other parts of my own soul, including the arts.

I don't like characters who are either good or bad. I just don't experience that in life, so my writing hasn't evolved that way.

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.

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.

Nothing mattered ... but writing books, and living the kind of life that made it possible to write them.

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.

When you start writing the magic comes when the characters seem to take on a life of their own and write the words for themselves.