Top 1200 Writing Love Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

I love writing in longhand. Writing in longhand, I think, is a marvelous thing to do for a writer these days. If you have a notebook and a nice pen you can go off somewhere, you can write that's solar powered. You can drop it or get it wet and pretty much all of your work will continue to be there. If you suddenly decide to look up a word or check a reference you will not look up four hours later, blinking, finding yourself somehow in the middle of an Ebay auction you never had any plans to be part of.

McEwan's Atonement…truly dazzles, proving to be as much about the art and morality of writing as it is about the past…. The middle section of Atonement, the two vividly realized set pieces of Robbie's trek to the Channel and Briony's experiences with the wounded evacuees of Dunkirk, would alone have made an outstanding novel…. There is wonderful writing throughout as McEwan weaves his many themes — the accidents of contingency, the sins of absent fathers, class oppression — into his narrative, and in a magical love scene.

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

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

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.

Writing for me is a form of spiritual discipline and creative vision, a means of being in the world and giving one's love to it without compromise or dilution.

Irene Bennett Brown keeps the promise of her gifted writing and love for history inside this fine contemporary mystery. I loved it.

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 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 love performing, it's my favourite thing to do. I think the music comes across even stronger live. I started performing first, before I started writing or being in the studio. I just love the energy that we can share together, for just one hour or however long it is. We all come together from all walks of life. I know it sounds cheesy.

If I had to read only one author, it would be Gabriel Garcia Marquez because I love the mystical, magical quality of his writing.

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

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

Growing up with music as a kid - I used to feel like artists were writing songs about me falling in love.

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'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.

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

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

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

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

I started out wanting to be an actor and I like to give actors as much as possible. I love writing stuff where they can really lose control.

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

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

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.

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

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.

I love it, I hate it, it's ecstasy when I'm writing well, it's despair when I'm not. I wouldn't wish this life on anyone, nor would I, could I, ever give it up.

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

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

A lot of times you get people writing wonderful sentences and paragraphs, and they fall in love with their prose style, but the stories really aren't that terrific.

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.

I absolutely love writing and sharing my enthusiasm with students, and because of 'Hattie Big Sky,' Montana holds a special place in my heart.

I love making miniatures, painting, writing, music and dance. These are the things I'm naturally good at. I'd like to think of myself as a renaissance woman.

My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history.

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

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

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

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.

Post Malone is one of my biggest inspirations. I just love his songs and his writing. He's a genius. Then person-wise, I'm a huge fan of Zendaya. I love her. I watch her interviews and everything she does all the time because I think she's just such a crazy good human being.

Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.

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.

I love working and writing new songs. But sometimes you need to wait, to have something in your mind, and then you can let yourself play music.

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.

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.

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

All the traumas I went through separating art from writing don't exist anymore. That's why I love being in rock 'n' roll. It's a whole life thing.

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 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.

Action, reaction, motivation, emotion, all have to come from the characters. Writing a love scene requires the same elements from the writer as any other.

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 would love to learn archery. Unfortunately I'm too busy writing and drawing ten thousand comics a month. Maybe one day!