Top 1200 Writing Skills Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

I need to have better knife skills... for vegetables.

Academic writing is such a different way of writing.

Read a lot, finding out what kind of writing turns you on, in order to develop a criterion for your own writing. And then trust it-and yourself.

I don't think that writing, real writing, has much to do with affirming belief--if anything it causes rifts and gaps in belief which make belief more complex and more textured, more real. Good writing unsettles, destroys both the author and the reader. From my perspective, there always has to be a tension between the writer and the monolithic elements of the culture, such as religion.

And I love writing. I've always loved writing.

Fiction writing is an act of imagination, lived experience is secondary in many ways, writing a novel really is all about inventing worlds and people.

I realized you might make money at writing, and you might even make a living at it. So after that I didn't write stories just for the class but wrote them for the purpose of submitting them somewhere, and at some point in the process, I began writing them just to please myself and that's where you begin to see the real value of a life of writing.

I don't have much interest in writing if there are not opportunities to crack open the inherited forms. The writing I love to read most does this as well. I'm a form junkie.

Skills are freedom. Get skilled up!

I always brag about my football skills.

You're not born with certain skills; you have to acquire them.

I actually never liked writing on my own or in school until I'd had my blog for a while and realized I'd been writing every day for years.

You have to learn certain skills to present magic.

I think I have automobile skills and musical background.

I don't have any juggling or fire-eating skills.

Writing only leads to more writing.

I think it now comes down to whether you have the skills or not.

The ABC's are attitude, behavior and communication skills.

I want to improve, I have to work hard at my skills.

With writing, I think you have to be honest with yourself. I have a certain kind of writing; that is, I like to really embellish the human spirit. You have to write about something you have a feel for.

Continue to study and learn new skills.

When I'm writing, I think about the garden, and when I'm in the garden I think about writing. I do a lot of writing by putting something in the ground.

I believe in myself enough to not get hung up on what other people are doing, or what I should be writing, or the nature of how I'm writing. I'm just able.

Bad writing is not easier than good writing. It's just as hard to make a toilet seat as it is a castle window. Only the view is different.

Metafiction says something. It has to do with taking a large fiction itself and writing within it; that kind of self-reflecting writing that emerges from it can be thought of as metafictional.

I dabbled in writing, wrote really bad poetry in high school. I also took a few writing classes when I was an undergrad at Stanford. I was so intimidated.

We need foreign skills to stay competitive.

Writing is a trade ... which is learned by writing.

I didn't understand that TV writing wasn't writing; it was pitching.

I'm a guy that has the skills to hit the ball hard.

Writing ... is a profession that can only be learned by writing.

I'm always writing - its what I like to do. But when I'm not writing, I'm reading.

I'm very confident in my skills and my abilities. I know what I can do.

Writing is not a job or activity. Nor do I sit at a desk writing for inspiration to strike. Writing is like a different kind of existence. In my life, for some of the time, I am in an alternative world, which I enter through day-dreaming or imagination. That world seems as real to me as the more tangible one of relationships and work, cars and taxes. I don't know that they're much different from each other.

in writing, sex doesn't matter; it's the writing that matters.

Service skills are the foundation for your success.

Ben Askren is a joke. The guy has no skills.

It is foolish to try to imitate the skills of others.

Bouldering is the synthesis of all skills needed for climbing

My ballroom dancing skills are completely non-existent.

I'm ready to test my skills with the best fighters.

When I'm fishing, I feel guilty that I'm not writing, and when I'm writing, I feel guilty that I'm not fishing. But when push comes to shove, I'll always take the writing.

I don't learn in a certain way, but I have other skills.

To me, cooking is man's natural activity. But I think writing is really hard. Certainly writing fiction is the hardest thing I've ever done.

I like to erase lines between categories. Why separate cookbook writing from writing, healthy from good tasting? I want to be open to possibilities.

The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!

Love the writing, love the writing, love the writing... the rest will follow.

When I entered in the industry, I was appreciated for my acting skills.

A lot of people don't realize the skills and talent that I have.

Writing-and this is the big secret-wants to be written. Writing loves a writer the way God loves a true devotee. Writing will fill your heart if you let it. It will fill your pages and help to fill your life.

Success is 20% skills and 80% strategy

if ask you who you are ,should count your skills.

What keeps me motivated to create new music is the joy of songwriting. The joy of being creative. The joy of writing a poem or essay. Writing anything. I just love writing, whether it is music or words. I just didn't need to share it for the last 18 years. When you share it, it brings on other things, which is good.

I'm writing all the time, I never stopped writing.

Digital fluency is about basic skills.

You know when you're writing, and it's just you and the computer screen, and you never think that anyone is ever going to read it... you're able to say private things when you're writing.

Writing can't be too calculated. My best writing is when I set it aside, move on. It's not when I'm crafting a sentence, thinking about what word should follow another.

I wanted to be a scientist. But I had no math skills.

The hardest thing about writing is writing.

The ABCs are attitude, behavior and communication skills.