Quotes About Writing

As few subjects are more interesting to society, so few have been more frequently written upon than the education of youth.

Paradise of Lailah Gifty Akita is reading, wondering and writing.

If I don't cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it's failed.

A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.

I write emotional algebra.

I write the big scenes first, that is, the scenes that carry the meaning of the book, the emotional experience.

In writing I search for believability, simplicity, and emotional impact.

When I write for teens, I feel I can cut through everything and get to the bare bones. I can get straight into the emotional world of the character.

There are three different kinds of scripting: functional, informational and emotional.

While medicine creates material for writing, perhaps even more important is that it also creates a psychological and emotional need to write.

In order to handle my emotional pain I talk to friends about it, I write, I breathe, and most of all, I put it in perspective.

I try to combine in my paintings cinematic feeling, emotional feeling, and sometimes actually writing on the page to combine all the different elements of communication.

I'm an emotional sort of person in general and I have a vivid imagination, so I feel the whole spectrum of emotion strongly when I write.

Acting might bring on emotional exhaustion, but writing tired your brains out. Writing led to depression and insomnia and walking around all day with a haggard look.

I would say that when I write prose I'm a more socially responsible person. I'm much more a citizen of the world. But the instability of the poetry, the emotional jaggedness, is also me.

Starting a new novel is a little like starting a new relationship - you have to be prepared to commit for at least three years and put up with the domestic tedium as well as the emotional highs!

I hope I am pigeonholed with comedy. I'm really not interested in writing the darker stuff, the emotional stuff.

If I ever wrote a script myself, it would be strongly emotional material.

I started writing poetry as a teenager in suburban Chicago out of emotional desperation.

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress truth.

whenever I read a passage that moves me, I transcribe it in my diary, hoping my fingers might learn what excellence feels like.

I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes.

I'm gonna write from personal experience, from emotion, from whatever the hell I'm feeling that day.

I am much more involved in the filmmaking experience on Mag Seven. I'm much more involved in story elements, casting decisions, the writing of the show, the blocking of the scenes.