Top 1200 Writing On The Wall Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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.

There was a wall. It did not look important. It was built of uncut rocks roughly mortared. An adult could look right over it, and even a child could climb it. Where it crossed the roadway, instead of having a gate it degenerated into mere geometry, a line, an idea of boundary. But the idea was real. It was important. For seven generations there had been nothing in the world more important than that wall. Like all walls it was ambiguous, two-faced. What was inside it and what was outside it depended upon which side of it you were on.

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

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 always believed that writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. The first, of course, is ransom notes.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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.