Top 1200 Writing Poems Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

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

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.

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

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 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.

In 1971, when I was 29, I wrote my first volume of poetry. I am a poet, and I have published four books of my poems.

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.

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

Do not beat up on yourself. Do not criticize your writing as lousy, inadequate, stupid, or any of the evil epithets that you are used to heaping on yourself. Such self-bashing is never useful. If you indulge in it, your writing doesn't stand a chance. So when your mind turns on you, turn it back, stamp it down, shut it up, and keep writing.

THE WRITER can get free of his writing only by using it, that is, by reading oneself. As if the aim of writing were to use what is already written as a launching pad for reading the writing to come. Moreover, what he has written is read in the process, hence constantly modified by his reading. The book is an unbearable totality. I write against a background of facets.

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

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.

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

It's so great to be able to write from home. My bread is rising downstairs, and I'm upstairs writing. I have a writing room that my grandchildren consider one of their playrooms.

I would rather not write if I'm depressed, or am going through a breakup, or I've had some disappointment, or I'm having a family issue. You don't want to just put out an open wound. Sometimes that just isn't even really good writing. Good writing should be good writing and storytelling and not just therapy or someone's personal journal.

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.

Not-writing is a good deal worse than writing.

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.

My only close-to-game-plan is to follow good writing. If the writing is in TV or if it's in theater or in film, that's it. It doesn't really matter what the medium is.

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

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

You should constantly write because your writing is always evolving and progressing. It's really important to start writing young.

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 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.

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

My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.

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

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.

My work is not my life. I started writing quite late, I didn't have that 'writing is everything, my art is all.' You have to be able to recognise the difference between the two.

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

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

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

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 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.

Writing by hand is a way of letting mystery into my writing. But I'm constantly trying to figure out how to do this job. It's a work in progress.

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

Writing music is just like writing a book.

The real trouble with the writing game is that no general rule can be worked out for uniform guidance, and this applies to sales as well as to writing.

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

In TV writing, I felt like Gulliver being tied down by the Lilliputians. There's so much more freedom in fiction writing.

I never made any plan before writing, however I succeeded. I enjoyed writing with excitement ,"what happen on the next page?"

I didn't start writing until late high school and then I was just diddling. Mainly I loved to read and my writing was an outgrowth of that.

Sometimes, for me, lyrics are derived from poems that I'm working on, and they kind of cross back and forth between the two.

She wrote poetry constantly; that was her "work". She was a slow bleeder and she slaved over it for long, exhausting hours, and many a middle of a night I could hear her creaking around the dead house with a pen in one hand, a clipboard and a flashlight in the other, refining her poems, jotting down the lines of a conceit. Writing never came easy for her; it gave her calluses. She never courted the muses, she wrestled them, mauled them all over the house and came up, after weeks of peripatetic labor, with a slim Spencerian sonnet, fourteen lines of imagistic jabberwocky.

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.

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.

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.

It's so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I've never been much of a measurer. But to write a book, you have to measure everything.

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

I am writing to please myself, though there is a feeling in some place in my head that this may be publishable. I haven't been writing for nothing.

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

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

Whenever I'm on tour and I'm in my hotel room and I'm writing and playing my guitar, I go in the bathroom and I record whatever I'm writing in there. It's just what I love to do.

Leaving Verses Poems Quotes To say goodbye Isn't a pain Unless you're never going...! (Tee hee)

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.

My writing process is a mix of research, personal experiences, washing the dishes, raising kids while thinking - then writing.

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.

Writing works when publications are writing and serving the best interest of their users; numbers are good yardstick but not a way to compensate a person.