What Is Writing Quotes

The writings of leading ID proponents reveal that the designer postulated by their argument is the God of Christianity.

I never set out to write a certain kind of song, I just play my guitar and see if I catch something.

Heck, I'm no Henry Mancini or Michel Legrand. I just play the guitar and write songs.

Writing bridges the inner and outer worlds and connects the paths of action and reflection.

I didn't want to be like Yeats; I wanted to be Yeats.

I began writing with a Michael Buble mentality. I think he's fantastic, and it's the perfect music for any date night, ever.

All experience is memory, and so everything you write about is from memory-unless you're writing about typing.

The worst advice a young writer can get is "Write what you know." Imagination is more important than experience.

I'm sure there's some philosophy that says one of the best ways to deal with any of your problems is to take a deep breath and step away from them for a while, writing does this for me.

He that would earn the Poet's sacred name, Must write for future as for present ages.

I wanted to do Playboy to get across the same ideas I'm singing and writing about these days. It's all about proving that a woman can defy stereotypes.

A sports expert is the guy who writes the best alibis for being wrong

I want to write some books. Books that have nothing to do with music, just some fiction type of books for a whole different audience of people.

Whom do I write for? I write for the story. Each story, it seems to me, knows best how it should be told. As I once put my ear to the railroad track, I listen now for the voice of my story.

Whether the task is writing, design, or hanging a picture straight, it is obvious that we do our best work when healthy, rested, refreshed, alert, and eager to do the job for its own sake.

The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

The books I haven't written are better than the books other people have.

To write, you need to find what you love.

If you want to write, you write. Talent is simply not enough.

Exercise the writing muscle every day.

Even if my marriage is falling apart and my children are unhappy, there is still a part of me that says, 'God, this is fascinating!'

I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one would say to the same person by word of mouth.

A writing teacher once told me that the most successful movies and books were simple plots about complex characters. You should be able to articulate your concept in a couple of lines.

Write like you're in love. Edit like you're in charge.

Writing is the rock on which everything is built.

If you can't write like New York, you have no business living in New York and making New York the locale of your stories.

Writing can give full meaning to characters and avoid pure stereotype.

Improv is like writing. It's actually a different discipline to acting. It helps acting greatly, but it's completely different. It's the same side of your brain when you write as when you improv.

Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration

Writing is a political instrument.

Like a small animal burrowing into its hole, I shift furniture around, and back myself into a cozy corner, with my back to the wall...and then I can write.

What kind of spiritual triumph it was I can neither write nor speak; it can only be compared with that where life is born in the midst of death, and is like the resurrection of the dead.

Photography and writing are marvelous distractions from painting. I might even have found movies more interesting than photography. I tried it a bit, but not enough.

Writing 'February' made me realize that breaking form is a way of letting the song be human.

It ain't whatcha write, it's the way atcha write it.

Something that you feel will find its own form.

The purpose of writing is to make your mother and father drop dead with shame.

I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.

I find it easier to write in these little vignettes; if I try to get any more heavy, I find myself out of my league.

If there is one thing left that I would like to do, it's to write something really beautiful. And I could do it, you know. I could still do it.

Re-writing is different from writing. Original writing is very difficult.

Having a point to start is important. You know that when you decide to write something it's like a commitment. It's like falling in love.

Style is the art of getting yourself out of the way, not putting yourself in it.

What's this business of being a writer. It's just putting one word after another.

Writing a novel resembles a journey with only the sketchiest of maps.

If you want ACTION, don’t write. Go and tell the guy what you want.

The most important thing a writer can have [is] the ability to live with the constant loneliness and a strong sense of revulsion for the banalities of everyday socializing.

Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.

I have no ghost writers. I personally write every message and every piece of published mail.

Painting is marvelous; it makes you happier and more patient. Afterwards you do not have black fingers as with writing, but blue and red ones.