Top 1200 Writing Notes Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

In a sense, journalism can be both helpful and detrimental to a writer of fiction because the kind of writing you need to do as a journalist is so different. It has to be clear, unambiguous, concise, and as a writer often you are trying to do things that are more ambiguous. I find that writing fiction is often an antidote to reading and writing too much journalism.

I chose law because writing was involved. I didn't realize how boring legal writing was, but I even learned to love that.

My father always told me I should be a writer, and I found I loved writing my autobiography; writing is such an interesting process.

Writing a whole series was a crash course in screenwriting, which is a very different muscle to standup comedy writing.

All writers have periods when they stop writing, when they cannot write, and this is always painful and terrible because writing is like breathing.

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.

News writing and sports writing have become synonymous. And it started with, you know, free agency, and now it's in the concussion debate.

I do labor - it's part of the process. Writing is no easier today than it was in the beginning: writing well is very hard to do. Always.

There are more and more women writing. And there are more and more good male writers who are writing and who learned and decided it's worth writing for women.

For me, writing is something that I need to do. If I'm not writing, I'm not happy.

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

My job is to work at song writing and singing and telling the truth in song writing. My job is to be courageous enough to go on stage and tell the truth, the same truth that's gone into my song writing.

People don't stress enough that when they're writing lyrics, they are writing.

The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be.

I love a lot of American writers, but I think that for the most part the scope of what's accepted as great American writing is very limited. What we have is good, but it's limited. There's not enough engagement with the world. Our literature's not adventurous enough. The influence of MFA writing tends to make things repetitive. The idea that writing can be taught has changed the whole conversation in the U.S.

I love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself and I get to make up the rules of the world that I'm writing.

They ask me what I'm writing for - I'm writing to show you what we're fighting for.

On the Internet, everyone is writing. There is a great flowering of writing.

It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts.

Writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too.

What's the challenge in writing a novel that few people will read? I'm more than happy writing what I do and have no plans to change that.

False notes [on the piano] are human. Why does everything have to be perfect? You know, perfection itself is imperfection.

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 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.

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.

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.

I started writing when I was around 6. I say 'writing,' but it was really just making up stuff! I started writing and doing my own thing. I didn't really know what a demo was or anything like that, so I started getting interested in studio gear and started learning about one instrument at a time. My first instrument was an accordion.

I tend to elongate the sentences as I'm writing and editing, and there is just something about the feeling of writing longhand that I really love.

The best kind of writing, and the biggest thrill in writing, is to suddenly read a line from your typewriter that you didnt know was in you.

It's like telling Mozart that there are too many notes in an opera. Which one do you want us to take out?

Writing is a sedentary gig unless one has a treadmill desk. But I have long believed writing and working out are complementary disciplines.

When I turned to writing fantasy, and writing for young people, it was joyous. It was like discovering an underground lake of ideas that went on forever.

You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.

Writing is a form of talking, although writing is such an odd thing in and of itself. People go about it in such different ways.

I've spent most of my life writing and developing everything that I've wanted to be in - which is why I started writing in the first place.

I try not to repeat myself. It's the hardest thing in the world to do -- there are only so many notes one human being can master. .

Writing books isn't a drastic departure from writing for the stage.

In my writing classes, I don't outlaw any genre writing.

It's not enough to hit the notes. There is no point in the singers just standing there and sounding wonderful if they're not connecting with the characters they are portraying.

Not-writing is a good deal worse than writing.

Hey 'Bachelor,' take notes! Trusting one another and sharing a journey to health leads to lasting relationships!

Down the road someone is practicing scales, The notes like little fishes vanish with a wink of tails

Please don't try to make things nice! All the wrong notes are right. Just copy as I have -- I want it that 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.

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.

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.

As you continue writing and rewriting, you begin to see possibilities you hadn't seen before. Writing a poem is always a process of discovery.

Writing music is just like writing a book.

In this way, the charge that the bank makes for the use of its notes - the interest - is a continual and universal tax upon all the members of the community.

I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.

And all that is therein; Invisible and visible, Their notes let all things blend, For Christ the Lord is risen. Our joy that hath no end.

The first writing of the human being was drawing, not writing.

Through all this other stuff I was doing, I always went back to the writing, and it was writing that made me feel whole, complete.

I've always been an all around creative person. Song writing and writing are great ways for me to express myself.

I used to get notes from directors, 'Please, Nigel, smile at the curtain calls.' I hate them so much.

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

Once I get my writing done, then I can turn my attention elsewhere - and not the other way around. The writing has to be the foundation.

I was never a good student. But I wrote acting notes every day and prepared for my next shoots diligently.

When you are writing, of course, you have to do all that writing and correcting for yourself. When I was a librarian it was expected that I would know about a wide range of books.

In love and friendship, small, steady payments on a gold basis are better than immense promissory notes.