Top 1200 Writing Nonfiction Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

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

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

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

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.

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

I do not think you should read about writing while you are 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 love writing. Writing has been very good to me.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

'First Light' is nonfiction, a true story about astronomers who are looking for light coming from the edge of the universe. It tells how science is really done - and science is a lot weirder and more human than most people realize.

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

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

Never mistake talking about writing for actual writing.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

I'm just too lazy. I wish I could be someone that has wild affairs - all of my favorite nonfiction novels are about these wild affairs and postmarital agonistes - but to be honest, I'm someone that doesn't deal well with instability.

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.

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

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

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).

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I read all of the nonfiction that I could find on Chechnya, and all the while, I was searching for a novel that was set there. I couldn't find a single novel written in English that was set in the period of the two most recent Chechen wars.

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

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

I'm writing my biography. It's my business. This is what happened in my life, and I'm writing about it.

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

I started writing after college, slowly, secretly writing.

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.