What Is Writing Quotes

"Writing" is the Latin of our times. The modern language of the people is video and sound.

There are times when quantity is at least as important as quality in learning an art.

I don't want to constantly be writing about terrorism and strife.

I think when I write movies and plays and books and magazine articles, they're all storytelling, and reality is the common denominator that binds them.

Even listening to a lot of other music inspires me, too. Like I'll find something and be like, "I love this group!" And I want to write something that's kind of like this.

We definitely set out to make a great 'radio' record. We set out to write great hooky choruses-but with verses that said something.

I always wanted to be in the world of entertainment. I just love the idea of an audience being happy with what I am doing. Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it.

All of us write wish fulfillment.

I don't know what the secret is when I am writing it - it really is a surprise to me.

Writing on the road is a passion of mine.

Some people take pictures, I write songs.

In a way, 'Billy Elliot' was autobiographical. I can't dance, but I think his dancing was me discovering about writing and literature.

I think if you have the compulsion to write, you're not going to feel whole until you start putting words on paper.

There's a ton of good art and music and writing out there offline among a ton of trash, and the same goes with what's online.

If you want to change things in the USA it's best not to spend all your time writing but to take action against the ol' sea of troubles.

Online writing is supplementary, complementary, another part of the whole, something that's only as important as one's investment in it.

I'm an only child and an American and am wholly in favor of uniqueness of voice in everything, especially music and writing.

You take a poll of any people. What is it they want? The right to write an editorial as you like? They want homes, medicine, jobs, schools.

Write me as one who loves his fellow men.

If you want to write in a mature and interesting way, you have to have sympathy for everyone that's involved.

My natural inclination is to think in scenes. So that's how I write, and the issue for me is usually: what to compress for speed.

As I write in my book, there is a misnomer that destroying another person's position is an effective and practical way to negotiate.

The Bible is obviously a mixed book. Literary and nonliterary (expository, explanatory) writing exist side by side within the covers of this unique book.

Work controls my life, writing controls my life, performing controls my life.

I think the reason working-class people don't write books is because they are encouraged to believe that only certain people are permitted to write books.

I'm still a fanboy geek. I always will be. In many ways, if my work still resonates with the audience, it's because I'm still writing from the point of view of the fan, so I'm geeked out constantly.

When I write I'm never really thinking about themes or the universal.

If you're writing, you're starting in private. It can really be this amazing, private, freeing experience. Forget that it's for other people - that comes in later.

I'd love to write something for a male protagonist. That's sort of the next frontier for me. I think it'd be really amazing to write the kind of parts that I love for women but for a guy.

I had always written. I had written stories and poems. Then I started writing plays.

The parts I enjoy playing aren't really available to me. So I have to write them.

I thought about ["Summer Sisters" ] so often as I was writing about these female characters who love each other and hated each other and were sort of in love with each other.

I would go to work from 9 to 6, go home, nap for two hours, then write from 8 to 2 a.m.

I'd always loved movies, but it wasn't some sort of desperate love of celluloid. It was literally like, "I want to write things, and I want people to see them more."

I started writing plays, but the fact that plays don't last forever was too much for me to bear.

I write at all different times. I write in my bed, I write at the table. I need to get it together. I'm working on a book and working, and just jam it in whenever it makes sense.

I find myself writing protagonists who do feel pretty cut off from others but who want to make connections and aren't very good at it.

Even in so-called realist or conventional writing there can be defamiliarization.

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

Thomas Hauser respects boxing and boxers. He gives readers insight into what happens in and out of the ring. Everything he writes is fair-minded and reality-based with a human touch.

Music, for me, is completely self-indulgent. I write it, I play the instruments, I arrange it, I produce it. It's all about me - as it should be.

I never sit down to write or say, "Today, I have to record something." I wait to hear it and then I go for it.

You write it down because finally, when it's written down you do get it out of your system somewhat.

Sometimes I start with lyrics - rarely - but sometimes I might have an idea for some lyrics that I wanna say. I write them down and figure out how to use that in a melody to write a song.

Henry James joyously engaged in the act of writing. A good day's writing gave him a sense of strength, of control over chaos, a victory of order and clarity over the confused battle of existence.

The biographer who writes the life of his subjects self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.

Who here wants to be a writer?' I asked. Everyone in the room raised his hand. 'Why the hell aren't you home writing?' I said, and left the stage.

You usually dont know what you are going to write about so you go to the places and talk to the people who were identified with the events.

So writing is a very, very difficult position to obtain... and retain.

I essentially write for myself.