Best writing & trying Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 2

“I'm not in a race with anybody to make the biggest hit movie anymore. I am just trying to tell stories that I can stay interested in for the two years it takes me to supervise the writing and to direct them.”

Writing Trying Years I Can Two Stories Race Direct Two Years Take Me

Author:Steven Spielberg

“The only place where you could see life and death, i. e., violent death now that the wars were over, was in the bull ring and I wanted very much to go to Spain where I could study it. I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death.”

Writing Trying War Wanted Study Fundamentals Rings Violent Life And Death Simplest Spain Bulls Violent Death

Book:Death in the Afternoon

Source: Death in the Afternoon

“Stop trying to write sentences and start trying to write stories.”

Writing Trying Stories Sentences Stop Trying

Author:James Patterson

“Trying to write music that's sensitive to 400 years ago takes a bit of madness, as it's such a long stretch of time.”

Writing Trying Years Long Bits Years Ago Madness Sensitive

Author:Damon Albarn

“I spent many years trying to write a lot like Ben Folds or John Lennon or Rivers Cuomo. I think that's healthy when you're learning to write and seeing how chords fit together and how songs take shape.”

Thinking Writing Trying Years Together Song Seeing Fit Healthy Shapes Rivers Chords Folds Lennon

Author:Andrew Dost

“I love it when characters surprise you, just like real people. When I write a scene I just try to make the characters behave in a way that feels natural to them. Sometimes that means they make a left turn and do something unexpected. Those are always the best scenes in my opinion.”

People Way Feels Writing Trying Mean Real Sometimes Character Turns Left Natural Opinion Scene Surprise Behave Unexpected Something Unexpected

Author:Brad Falchuk

“Writing is a job, a craft, and you learn it by trying to write every day and by facing the page with humility and gall. And you have to love to read books, all kinds of books, good books. You are not looking for anything in particular; you are just letting stuff seep in.”

Writing Trying Kind Book Jobs Stuff Humility Particular Pages All Kinds Crafts Good Book Love To Read

Author:Stephen Dobyns

“I started trying to write songs when I was 8 or 9 years old.”

Writing Trying Years Song

Author:Sondre Lerche

“I sometimes try to write something that is actually really simple and I can't do it. So, then, it's not simple anymore. It's really hard and it gets all messed up. I sometimes sit down and try to write a song with just three chords and it doesn't work.”

Writing Trying I Can Sometimes Hard Song Three Simple Down And Chords Messed Up

Author:Sondre Lerche

“I published only in academic journals in philosophy until I was in my 40s, but I had been writing fiction and poetry my whole adult life - without ever once trying to publish it, and rarely letting anyone read it.”

Writing Trying Philosophy Whole Fiction Adults Academic Journal Publish Writing Fiction

Author:Cheryl Mendelson

“I love writing songs. I love doing my radio show and talking to the fans and listening to what they have to say, but there's a certain responsibility that comes along with being given the gift of music. I take that seriously, but at the same time I try to use it to do something that makes a difference in a positive way.”

Way Writing Trying Use Shows Certain Song Given Differences Responsibility Talking Fans Listening Radio Making A Difference Writing Songs

Author:Randy Owen

“It is setting goals and trying to be a business person, but at the same time not losing sight of who you are writing songs for and what your goals are as a songwriter. So believe me, if you think I've got it down I don't it is a constant struggle.”

“I think if you're writing from the heart, very often, the subject matter will adjust as you age... but you try to write the best song you can possibly write. For us, we have the same basic elements that make up the America sound.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Trying Heart Matter Age America Song Sound Subjects Elements Subject Matter Writing From The Heart

Author:Gerry Beckley

“Here is my theory on this one. If you write things down, if there is a mystery and you try and explain it, once you've written it down for permanent, in due time, it'll be proven stupid.”

Ifs Writing Trying Written Mystery Stupid Theory Dues Permanent Proven Due Time

Author:Joey Santiago

“I try to gauge whether a girl likes me before I make a move. I would write a page-long note to a girl.If she wrote a whole page back, I knew she liked me, too. If she wrote back like two words, then I figured I'd move on.”

Ifs Writing Trying Long Two Whole Moving Girl Pages Notes Likes Gauges Make A Move

Author:Devon Werkheiser

“Words are changing. I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn't been born yet. It's difficult.”

Writing Trying Difficult Born Expression Outdated

Author:Agnes Denes

“Every time I try to write on vacation, I fail miserably.”

Writing Trying Failing Vacation

Author:Christopher Bollen

“You find when you're writing a detective story that you're actually not trying to solve anything. You're trying to stop the reader from solving the puzzle.”

Writing Trying Stories Reader Solve Puzzles Detectives Detective Stories

Author:Christopher Bollen

“Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring then to be original; by destroying one's first productions.”

Writing Trying Firsts Book Reading Difficult Originals Trade Productions Destroying Daring Books And Reading Great Author

Author:Andre Maurois

“Seeing that I am so busily occupied with myself just now, I want to try to paint my self-portrait in writing.”

Want Writing Trying Self Seeing Paint Portraits Self Portrait

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

“The poets are the standard bearers of language. Their work lives or dies word by word. When I write and can hear a clunky sentence, I try to write up to the poetry that I have recited beforehand.”

Writing Trying Poetry Dies Language Poet Standards Sentences

Author:Janet Fitch

“everyone who is human has something to express. Try not expressing yourself for twenty-four hours and see what happens. You will nearly burst. You will want to write a long letter, or draw a picture, or sing, or make a dress or a garden.”

Want Writing Trying Humans Long Happens Humanity Hours Four Communication Draws Garden Letters Twenties Dresses Express Yourself

Book:If You Want to Write

Source: If You Want to Write

“Reality is very, very contradictory, and so I try to write just perfecting what I see, what I read, what I feel, in a feel-thinking way. Not only giving ideas, or receiving ideas, or trying to explain something, but mainly feel-thinking, a feel-thinking language able to tie the heart and the mind, which have been divorced.”

Thinking Way Giving Feels Writing Trying Mind Heart Has Beens Ideas Reality Able Language Ties Receiving Divorced Contradictory

Author:Eduardo Galeano

“If you are writing about baloney, don't try and make it Cornish hen, because that's the worst kind of baloney there is. Just make it darn good baloney.”

Ifs Writing Trying Kind Worst Humorous Advertising Hens Baloney

Author:Leo Burnett

“If you are not discouraged about your writing on a regular basis, you may not be trying hard enough. Any challenging pursuit will encounter frequent patches of frustration. Writing is nothing if not challenging.”

Ifs Writing Trying May Hard Enough Challenges Bases Pursuit Encounters Frustration Discouraged Patches Trying Hard

Author:Maxwell Perkins

“Now you know you're going to have to play music for the label, you know you're going to have to get an opinion from the manager. Now, I'm so much more conscious and it bothers me. I try to find my way back to writing without being too analytical or not thinking about whether this is good or is it bad.”

Thinking Knows Way Writing Trying Play Opinion Conscious Managers My Way Labels Bother

Author:Yukimi Nagano

“I try to write things that can't be made into movies. My novels have thwarted many attempts to film them and I think that was true of the essay, too. If you'd actually tried to be true to the essay, it would have been, perhaps, boring. So taking that narrow little cast of characters and expanding it out, that was what was exciting about the project for me.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Trying Littles Has Beens Made Character Film Novel Projects Exciting Casts Boring Being True Essays Expanding

Author:Jonathan Franzen

“I try to write about small insignificant things. I try to find out if it’s possible to say anything about them. And I almost always do if I sit down and write about something. There is something in that thing that I can write about. It’s very much like a rehearsal. An exercise, in a way.”

Ifs Way Writing Trying I Can Exercise Down And Say Anything Insignificant Rehearsal Insignificant Things

Author:Karl Ove Knausgard

“You don’t think when you play music, you just try to play and be in it. It is the same for me when the writing is going really well. It’s the same kind of feeling. I’m just in it. It’s not the words, it’s not the sentences, I’m not aware of it. Then it’s good.”

Thinking Writing Trying Wells Kind Play Feelings Sentences

Author:Karl Ove Knausgard

“I'm trying to write something in which you know that it's all about sex but you never see any.”

Knows Writing Trying Sex

Author:David Hare

“I try to write in a way where the lyrics have many meanings and you won't really know what's behind it.”

Knows Way Writing Trying Behinds

Author:Taylor Momsen

“If you are writing comedy and try to please everybody, you'll please nobody.”

Ifs Writing Trying Comedy Please Writing Comedy

Author:Brendan O'Carroll

“In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing that I find is feeling lost and trying to find your way.”

Way Writing Trying Feelings Political Song Lost One Thing About Family Feeling Lost

Author:Billie Joe Armstrong

“I just sat down and thought, I'm going to write a song today, I'm going to give it a try. So I just stuck it on a tape like everything else. That was just another song.”

Giving Writing Trying Today Song Down And Stuck Sat Tape

Author:Jules Shear

“I think because I try to keep things as real as I can, or I try to start from a place of reality, I almost don't have the imagination to write a book that's not set where I am.”

Thinking Writing Trying I Can Book Real Reality Imagination

Author:Maria Semple

“If we want to write, it makes sense to read—and to read like a writer. If we wanted to grow roses, we would want to visit rose gardens and try to see them the way that a rose gardener would.”

Ifs Way Want Writing Trying Wanted Grows Garden Rose Make Sense Gardener Rose Garden

Author:Francine Prose

“It is not possible to redefine marriage. Marriage is the union between a man and a woman, has been historically, remains so. It is Alice in Wonderland territory, Orwellian almost, for any Government of any political persuasion to seek to come along and try to re-write the lexicon. It will not do.”

Men Writing Trying Has Beens Government Political Remains Unions Territory Persuasion Wonderland Lexicon Orwellian

Author:Roger Gale

“So such is life that it writes itself, trying to right itself, but there's nothing wrong with it.”

Writing Trying Such Is Life

Author:Robert Pollard

“Love is one of those topics that plenty of people try to write about but not enough try to do.”

People Writing Trying Enough Love Is Plenty Topics

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“It is now only in letters I write what I feel: not in literature any more, and I seldom say it, because I keep trying to be amusing.”

Feels Writing Trying Literature Letters Keep Trying Amusing

Book:Commonplace Book

Source: Commonplace Book

“It is all, as usual, paradox. I have to use what intellect I have in order to write books, but I write the kind of books I do in order that I may try to set down glimpses of things that are on the other side of the intellect. We do not go around and discard the intellect, but we must go through and beyond it.”

Writing Trying Kind May Book Use Order Sides Intellect Paradox Usual Glimpse

Book:The Crosswicks Journals: A Circle of Quiet, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, The Irrational Season, and Two-Part Invention

Source: The Crosswicks Journals: A Circle of Quiet, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, The Irrational Season, and Two-Part Invention

“Perhaps we have failed as human beings. Perhaps we have embarrassed ourselves to the natural world. We have been rigorous and willful in all the wrong ways. But it doesn't have to be this way. Maybe you don't want to deal with (marching), the permanent marker and poster board. But try something else. Carry someone's groceries. Chat with the custodian in your office building. Donate blood. Live in Rwanda for a year. Write letters to the Department of Buildings. Learn to knit. It is only going to get better from here on out.”

“As hard as you try to write a good script and you have great intentions, this alchemy has to occur.”

Writing Trying Hard Intention Scripts Alchemy

Author:Carlton Cuse

“Okay, this is Fran Lebowitz. She gave an interview once for the Paris Review about trying to write fiction and saying that fiction writers start talking about how characters are talking to them, and it's crazy, she's never had that. And I also thought, I'm never gonna be able to do this, because I didn't feel that for a really long time.”

Feels Writing Trying Long Character Able Fiction Talking Crazy Long Time Okay Paris Interviews Reviews Fiction Writers Really Long

Author:Sloane Crosley

“I've always appreciated people like Graham Parker or Loudon Wainwright III, who spend their entire lives writing songs and working their asses off just to have complete artistic freedom. They're just sharing their lives with you through their music. That's the same kind of work that I'm trying to do, in my own weird way.”

People Way Writing Trying Kind Song My Own Ass Artistic Appreciated Writing Songs Artistic Freedom

Author:Judd Apatow

“If I ever get some free time I end up thinking about what to make next. I don't pick up a guitar and start playing the songs I already know; I immediately try to write a riff.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Writing Trying Ends Song Next Picks Guitar Free Time

Author:Chaz Bundick

“I'm trying to write for people my age. And my inspiration over the years has changed dramatically.”

People Writing Trying Years Inspiration Age Changed

Author:John Mellencamp

“Natural writers will often try to force themselves into a form - novel, story, screenplay, or poem - that is not necessarily the appropriate form for the way they see the world... if, in fact, they are writing from the artist's impulse, which is a deep, inchoate vision of some sort of order behind the apparent chaos of life on planet earth, they'll be driven then to express that vision in the creation of the object - the art object.”

Ifs World Way Writing Trying Art Facts Stories Earth Form Artist Order Force Natural Behinds Vision Novel Creation Objects Planets Chaos Driven Impulse Appropriate Screenplays Planet Earth

Author:Robert Olen Butler

“There are all sorts of theories and ideas about what constitutes a good opening line. It's tricky thing, and tough to talk about because I don't think conceptually while I work on a first draft -- I just write. To get scientific about it is a little like trying to catch moonbeams in a jar. But there's one thing I'm sure about. An opening line should invite the reader to begin the story. It should say: Listen. Come in here. You want to know about this.”

Thinking Knows Want Should Writing Trying Firsts Littles Ideas Stories Lines One Thing Theory Reader Tough Opening Invites Tricky Jars Moonbeams

Author:Stephen King

“A man always writes absolutely well whenever he writes in his own manner, but the wigmaker who tries to write like Gellert ... writes badly.”

Men Writing Trying Wells

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

Writing Quotes

Related topics

Writing Quotes