Top 1200 Writing Process Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Of course, when you're making a documentary, you don't have actors, but nonetheless, there is a writing process that does take place in the editing room.

The writer is one who, embarking upon a task, does not know what to do... Writing is a process of dealing with not-knowing, a forcing of what and how.

The filmmaking process is a team effort. A screenwriter cannot possibly do exactly what he wants as if he was writing a novel.

I just start writing, and in the process, one hopefully comes up with ideas and solutions and explores all the little nooks and crannies.

Writing poetry is such an intense experience that it helps to start the process in a casual or wayward frame of mind.

The songwriting process is different on every record because you're never coming from the same place when you're writing.

I have had quite a lot of prizes, but I don't think it makes any difference to the ease or difficulty to the writing process.

Writing a book isn’t an easy process nor is it always enjoyable, but it is one of life’s most satisfying achievements.

The writing process was some of the most exciting and rewarding moments of my life. It felt a lot like being in a band.

The first is that instead of writing a sequel, which is what most people do, this is in fact a prequel. Although we didn't know that when we began the process.

Use the creative process - singing, writing, art, dance, whatever - to get to know yourself better.

I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery.

The writing is amazing because having a hand in creating what you're going to be performing... there's nothing like it. It's always going to be better suited for you. You're always going to know the lines faster, because you wrote it. The writing is so very hard. It's the hardest part of the whole process. In some ways the acting is a lot easier and a lot more fun.

More than this, I believe that the only lastingly important form of writing is writing for children. It is writing that is carried in the reader's heart for a lifetime; it is writing that speaks to the future.

Before I ever begin writing a new story, I have to sketch my characters out on paper. It's part of my process of understanding who they are.

Writing is a creative process, and you need to have the doors and windows of your mind open so that you have the possibility of change.

I enjoy writing, sometimes; I think that most writers will tell you about the agony of writing more than the joy of writing, but writing is what I was meant to do.

I was fascinated with the writing process and seeing the evolution of a sketch and how it would change up to the minute before it went on the air.

Email did precisely what I predicted, back in 1978, it took over the postal mail process and system of writing letters.

In my own writing, I've mostly abandoned end-rhyme, but wordplay is still a huge part of my process.

The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.

To me, there are 3 parts of the album process: writing, recording, and my favorite part: getting to sing the songs with the fans every night.

So much of my writing process is trying to eliminate any kind of shame or fear of the thoughts that I'm having.

I've been writing a lot of songs about my personal life and identity. That can be a real healing process.

I always work with text orally in the writing process, saying passages aloud to measure flow.

I don't really like questions about the writing process, because the truth is I don't know how I write.

If you do improvising, it can sometimes end up being a waste of time. And if you do that, it's more or less based on a writing process.

Thank God for being a writer, because you do sort of find out what you think by the process of writing.

Writing a poem is always a process of subtracting: you start with all of language available to you, and you choose a smaller field.

Painting for process is the visual equivalent of journal writing, done not for the sake of being seen or published, but purely for the telling itself.

Writing music uses a whole different process that involves a lot of noodling and just seeing what comes.

When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out.

I love the whole process for each new album. The writing, the touring, everything. For me, it never gets old.

I am at my happiest when I'm problem solving and a large part of writing is for me a lovely labor in problem solving. Every act of discovery in writing involves a process of figuring out why I'm not seeing what I need to see. Niggling feelings, discomforts, a sense that you've forgotten or overlooked something, a sudden curiosity about what if here? - these are priceless. They are the bases of problems and lead the way.

Distractions have never prevented a Writing Writer Who Writes from writing; distractions are an excuse proffered by Non-Writing Non-Writers Who are Not-Writing for why they are not writing.

I just thought it was important that people knew right from the jump that I've got problems. But in all seriousness, that's a huge part of my writing process.

There's nothing wrong with delighting in what you do. In fact, most of the fun you'll have as a poet will come about during the process of writing.

Love is what makes you do everything. It really does conquer all. With my first album, I was writing about empowerment hoping that would make it true. And now it is. I'm in charge. I make the rules. I've been writing since I was nine years old and I'm very much involved in the creative process. And now that I'm in a happier place in my personal life, I'm spitting songs out left and right.

The process of writing and creating and answering that very unique call inside yourself has nothing to do with agents and sales and all that stuff.

I recognize this in my writing process. A consistent writing structure opens the door to amazing insights. I recognize the truth of this in my daily habits. When I set my keys in the place I, with practice, always set my keys... I do not lose them. In many instances an ordered external structure can be an invitation for an extraordinarily unfettered, creative and unbounded inner structure.

The challenges of writing a book are very different from writing a blog or tweets. I've been writing a blog since I was in the 6th grade, so I had this style of writing that was definitely not proper for writing a book.

Since I began making movies, I've always looked for screenwriters instead of going through the long and painful process of writing.

I don't usually think of my writing as a 'challenge' because I enjoy the process so much. I suppose that's what's helped me to avoid 'writer's block' all these years.

I like the process of pencil and paper as opposed to a machine. I think the writing is better when it's done in handwriting.

I intentionally approached each story in 'Killing and Dying' in a different way, and that includes the writing process.

For me writing and filmmaking is a therapeutic process. It reflects themes that I'm going through at a time in my life.

My writing process isn't a very organized thing. The actual writing part is a tiny part of my life. I often write in public. I bring my laptop or write freehand in notebooks. Then, I'll read through them while I exercise or walk the dog. The very last thing I do is the sitting alone at the computer part.

I know that sounds ineffective and daunting, but it [throw hundreds of pages away] is actually my favorite part of the writing process.

I saw my father writing songs and he would include me in the process when I was little so that kind of sparked my interest for the vocation.

Anytime you put yourself in a creative box, it's going to stifle you; it's not conducive to the writing or recording process.

Music - which I could never listen to while writing before I had children - became essential to my process.

Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.

A piece of writing is only worth doing if you're a different person at the end of the process than you were at the beginning.

When you get the ideas, that's a thrill; when you're writing the book and it's corning out well, that's a thrill; when you finish it and other people read it, that's a thrill. There are going to be reviews, of course; not everyone's going to love it. You feel sort of naked and vulnerable in a way. That's just a minor part of the process, really. If you can't take that part, you shouldn't be in the business. But there are so many joys to writing.

Unlike prose writing, the strange process of writing with pictures encourages associations and recollections to accumulate literally in front of your eyes; people, places, and events appear out of nowhere. Doors open into rooms remembered from childhood, faces form into dead relatives, and distant loves appear, almost magically, on the page- all deceptively manageable, visceral, the combinations sometimes even revelatory.

Usually it is a painful process (writing), "Superman" came in 45 minutes; "100 Years" in four months.

I always thought the writing process for movies and TV shows was just a blueprint. The making of it was the thing.

Lately I've been thinking about the idea that all novels are, at least in some way, about the process of writing a novel - that the construction of the book and the lineage of people constructing novels are always part of the story the author is telling. I think the equivalent for memoir should be that all memoirs are, in some way, about the process of memory. Memoirs are made out of a confusing, flawed act of creation.

I had to be happy with the process of writing.Each step you take is more rewarding than the one before.

I love stand-up, but the process of writing is a little more lonely. I want to keep doing both, though.