Top 1200 Writing Love Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.

'The Sopranos' all came down to the writing. I wouldn't have been on for as long as I was if the writing weren't so good.

Writing is not just the technical act of your fingers on the keyboard. Writing is living.

When I wrote and got out of the way, writing did writing.” (p.90)

Writing of that caliber spoils you for any other kind of writing for awhile. But that's probably good.

Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on.

So, whenever I'm writing, I'm writing in the presence of all the other books I've read and I think we all are.

Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.

Usually with film writing I start with characters, and set about writing their story.

In my writing, I focus lenses. I'm almost always seeing when I am writing.

When I'm writing I don't dream much; it's like the dreaming gets used in the writing.

When you're not writing, you're not doing anything else either because everything you do goes into the writing.

If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.

My job is writing for people to enjoy and then writing about a broader and a deeper world.

Writing for other people is easier than writing for myself - it's not as personal.

There's no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else comes with it

The Sopranos all came down to the writing. I wouldn't have been on for as long as I was if the writing weren't so good.

I stopped writing fiction the moment I started writing songs, and I miss it.

Writing isn't about the destination-writing is the journey that transforms the soul and gives meaning to all else.

For me writing has always felt like praying even when I wasn't writing prayers.

When you're writing for a TV show, what's great is that you always know what actor you're writing to.

I've been writing articles for newspapers and magazines. And writing is a very beautiful way of expression.

I'm a fairly fast, but sloppy writer, so I'm a big fan of re-writing, and re-writing again.

I usually dread writing non-fiction. I don't feel comfortable or confident writing essays and the like.

The three things that help writing the most are living, writing, and reading. In that order.

I'm writing new music all the time. I'm just not writing pop stuff. It's not my goal.

I'm honestly as happy writing Superman Adventures as I am writing Wanted.

It's much harder when you're writing about your life, than when you're writing fiction.

What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.

I don't know if I have writing habits. Writing is impossible and every time I have to do it I kind of forget how.

I have been writing since I was old enough to spell. I have never considered not writing.

You have to remember that writing itself is so solitary. You start writing because you're lonely.

So what comes naturally to me is writing lyrics and writing songs and telling stories.

Pivotal to a happy writing life is a practice of daily personal writing.

Writing Charles Dickens' biography is like writing five biographies.

Writing provides no guarantees. And writers who stay with writing do it for reasons that are larger than self.

A cookbook is not like being an author. It's writing down recipes; it's not writing.

Writing a picture book is like writing 'War and Peace' in Haiku.

I always start with writing vocal melodies before writing lyrics.

I'm not in the practice commonly of writing checks just for the fun of writing them.

One of the ready advantages of writing a road or quest story is that it mirrors the experience of writing a novel.

I don't mean that to be egotistical, but I'm not writing fluff. I'm not writing for 8-year-olds. I'm a woman and I'm a rock girl.

There's such good writing now on television and I don't see a lot of great writing on films sadly.

Writing is sacred, other activities are profane, and I don't want them to corrupt my writing.

I was writing since I can remember - I just didn't know it was poetry yet, or that writing could be a career.

O MY WIFE-who made the writing of my previous book a pleasure and writing of the present one a necessity.

As far as when I'm writing a song, I think I'm writing first and foremost for myself.

Every day, I write. I have a writing period - it's usually in the morning - or I'm writing songs.

Writing novels is so much more satisfying than writing television.

When my second husband shouted, 'Me or your writing!' I replied, 'My writing.' We separated.

It takes a lot of bad writing to get to a little good writing.

Writing eases my suffering . . . writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.

When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.

To me, writing is fun. It doesn't matter what you're writing, as long as you can tell a story.

I came out with a book called The True Secret of Writing: Connecting Life with Language. It's a book that describes how writing is a practice and how my teaching is part of that practice. I direct the writing and create books but underneath, there's always the river of practice happening. No good, no bad. Just do it.

There's no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else comes with it.

Well, predominately, if I'm writing for another artist, I'm sitting there with them and we're writing it together.

Writers have problems writing sex scenes, because writing one really well is pornography.

Writing with a film in mind - writing like a screenplay - is a sureshot recipe for disaster.

The only thing that makes me crazier than writing is not writing.