Top 1200 Writing Poems Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

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.

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

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

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 think it's true to say that in 1973 I could read every book of poems that was published in a year, and I did.

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

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

Through the mad mystic hammering of the wild ripping hail The sky cracked its poems in naked wonder

'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.

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

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.

Writing reminds you that you're never alone. Writing and reading is to be optimistic.

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

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

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

I'm much more capable of cutting back than of expanding. I've gotten very surgical about poems.

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.

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

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

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

My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff.

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

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 tend to delay writing by doing more research - it's really the act of writing the piece that I have the hardest time with.

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.

My poems are almost all written as Diane. I don't have any problems with that, and if other women choose to identify with this, I think that's terrific.

Well, 'The Wellspring' was written from 1983 to 1986. And it had a section in the beginning that was poems that began from others' experience.

I wondered if I was just the sum of my brain scan, little dots clustered in my frontal lobe. Is that where the poems came from?.

I started writing after college, slowly, secretly writing.

Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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 came to Hollywood originally writing comedy and writing satire.

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

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

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