Top 1200 Writing Nonfiction Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

One of the things that draws writers to writing is that they can get things right that they got wrong in real life by writing about them.

A thousand things to be written had I time: had I power. A very little writing uses up my capacity for writing.

You could be anybody when you're writing. That's the reason that I'm writing: to be anybody. You can put your feet in various shoes and experience anything.

I have been writing stories and working on ideas for a long time. I like writing and reading a lot, so I jot down ideas.

When I'm writing solitude feels very good. But when I'm not writing it feels lonely... Having a big family solves that problem.

Our writing, especially during 'Boxer' - the recording process was the writing process, which is not the way I would advise anyone else to do it.

In my experience, when you're writing, you want the truth, and you don't want to be apologetic in any way. But there is something in writing, the complexity of it, that works against that aim.

I'm terrified of writing at night, for then I can't sleep. So I start slowly, slowly writing in the morning and go on into the late afternoon.

Acting is contained - you act for three months, then leave it - but writing is the act of creation. Writing is dangerous.

I think it almost all has to do with coming at writing from an acting perspective, because I didn't, like, study writing. I studied acting.

Honesty and truth in writing is so important, and I think that YA writing above all is honest, and I think that appeals to anyone of any age.

When I'm writing poetry, 99.9% of my writing begins in English. I spent most of my life in English, although I am bilingual.

I'm a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of questions without answers.

When I first started writing lyrics and stuff, I was writing it to garage, and obviously garage kind of progressed to grime.

I'd probably still be a financial journalist now if it weren't for writing novels. Mmm. Fun! I'm much happier writing novels!

What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose

As for the healing, that comes from the writing, from living and writing. That's my catharsis. That's why I never regret sharing because it's part of my healing!

You don't write for success. That takes part of your attention away from the writing. If you're really doing it, that's all you're doing: writing.

I hate outlines. I have a broad sense of where the story is going; I know the end, I know the end of the principal characters, and I know the major turning points and events from the books, the climaxes for each book, but I don't necessarily know each twist and turn along the way. That's something I discover in the course of writing and that's what makes writing enjoyable. I think if I outlined comprehensively and stuck to the outline the actual writing would be boring.

What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose.

At its best, writing is a dialogue. It's one of the things I love about children's: the fact that this dialogue is really there from the get-go, from the start of writing.

I like writing different types of music. I like writing Christian music. I like collaborating with Christian artists. We have a Christian following. I love writing kids' music.

Writing can't change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul.

Texting isn't writing. It's not like letter writing. Texting is short scriptwriting. It's a collaborative soap opera where nothing happens.

Writing and the hope of writing pulls me back from the edges of despair. I believe insanity and despair are at times one and the same.

Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.

I didn't really realize that writing... would be fun and people would pay you to do it. Being an astronaut is a glory profession, and so is writing, in a way.

If you're writing songs by yourself, who's going to tell you if it's good or not? But if you're writing songs with somebody else, you get that immediate feedback.

I feel like you just need to keep writing until the writing itself just begins to take shape.

Reading good books is one distraction that will help you become a better writer. And writing - that's the thing - writing is what will really make you a better writer. Write bad stories until you begin to write so-so stories, which might, if you keep at it, turn to writing good stories.

If you know anything about writing biographies, or what is regarded as a good biography, you have minimum input from the person you are writing about.

The critics suppose that it is easy to write a play. They aren't aware that writing a good play is difficult and writing a bad one is twice as hard.

Acting is more fun than writing. Writing is harder, more like having a term paper.

What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally moulds chaos itself into a race of gods.

I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent - you can't just do it like that.

I hate being called lazy, so when everybody gets up at half seven in the morning, I'm up at the same time. Everyone goes to work and I'll do a few hours of writing, then I'll mess about for a bit and come back to it. By the time I go home I'm done. I think it's really good to keep that kind of a routine with writing. I find that when I don't do that, it's really hard to get back into that headspace of writing.

There would be times when I got so much work that I didn't have time to write. School interfered with writing more than writing with school.

Good writing , like gold , combines lustrous lucidity with high density. What this means is good writing is packed with hints.

I started writing - just generally - when I was 10, there, and started writing songs when I was maybe 11 turning 12.

A novel, basically, is writing one sentence — then, without violating the scope of the first one, writing the next sentence.

When you're in Los Angeles, everybody you meet is writing a movie, and they want you to be in it. Every cab driver is writing a movie!

When I first had a child, I really had a hard time trying to figure out how it was all going to fit together. Because I felt like, when I was with him, I wanted to be writing and I should be writing. And when I was writing, I felt like I should be with him, and wanted to be with him. So I was unhappy a lot.

I have a very healthy appetite for good writing and good characters. Having weak writing is my biggest fear.

Writing doesn't leave much time for hobbies, unless you consider that I began writing as a hobby and have made the hobby into a profession.

I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!

I don't know when I'm writing dark. I don't know when I'm writing funny or even heartbreaking. I'm always just trying to write it true.

I haven't shifted language. I'm writing in English because I like it. I'm a sucker for the language, but the good old poems I'm still writing in Russian.

I'm very comfortable writing in the first person; it dives into the character in a way that's difficult if you're writing in the third person.

I'd say writing songs is, for me, as much playing the tape recorder as it is playing guitar or writing words.

Writing 'Animal Talk' column in MetroPlus gave me immense satisfaction. I quite enjoyed writing the column.

Writing for TV made way more sense than writing for magazines. And by sense, I mean money.

The truth is I'm not really interested in travel writing as it's generally conceived, and even less so in female travel writing.

Writing cant change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul.

It is my contention that the process of reading is part of the process of writing, the necessary completion without which writing can hardly be said to exist.

Writing for a soap - writing for 25 characters day in, day out - is one of the most difficult jobs in Hollywood.

One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.

It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself.

I'm not saying that I don't experience people in life as evil, but writing is not a place of alienation; writing is the place where we can try to be human.

Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil, sit down, and write as it occurs to you. The writing is easy-it's the occurring that's hard.

I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction.