Top 1200 Writing Notes Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

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

Who am I, if I'm not this singer with big high notes? I identify with my voice. But I'm more than just the acrobatics.

I'm not great with breathing, like holding notes. I usually don't. A lot of people wouldn't believe it, but I don't focus on technical stuff.

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.

Birds sat on the telegraph wires that spanned the river as the black notes sit on a staff of music.

He had a bright, reckless tenor that was always wandering off, looking for notes in the wrong places.

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

Sometimes I'll ask the book writer to write a monologue, not to be performed, just as if they were notes for the character.

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.

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'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.

On every show I've ever done, one of the first network notes is, 'You have to put a time clock on this thing.'

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

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

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

Although I am not stupid, the mathematical side of my brain is like dumb notes upon a damaged piano.

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

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

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.

Certain emotions just take you to the notes - being furious, heroic, sad, erotic, when rain comes.

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

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.

The job of the travel writer is to go far and wide, to make voluminous notes, to tell the truth.

I grew up seeing my sister in the studio. I would go to recording sessions and take notes.

And hear the pleasant cockoo, loud and long - The simple bird that thinks two notes a song.

Some people like very predictable melodies, and others prefer the less likely notes.

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

I listened to the pure crystalline notes of one of Mozart's concertos dropping at my feet like leaves from the trees.

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

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

It can be insulting to an actor when the director comes out, and they have no notes on the performance, and all they care about is that the camera has to do this one technical thing.

The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul.

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

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.

I've been doing that song ["Live Wire"] on my own for years, so no, I'm not worried about [high notes] at all.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

I don't write material. Funny things happen to me in the course of a day, and I just make notes.

It is more important to keep the horse going hard than to always play the exact notes.

A horn has that voice quality, and an electric guitar can emulate that. But playing an acoustic, the notes don't sustain like that.

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.

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

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

Blues, rock and hip hop are more about a lifestyle and culture than notes on a page.

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

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

As a conductor I find the hardest tasks are to listen to the instinct of a musician and to hear the music behind the notes.

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.

A good comic explores the imagination, but it's always got to have those notes of truth running through it.

You missed World Hist." "Did you get notes for me?" "No. I thought you were dead in a ditch.

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

To choose to be silent in any scene sometimes has more notes in my script than when you chose to speak.

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