Writing process Quotes

“Working on it.”

— Paul Aertker

“Writing starts with living.”

— Anonymous

“Do what you love...”

— Lise Cartwright

“The movement Of the body is Where poetry Begins”

— Clint Catalyst

“When entering a library, I never forget to bow down!”

— Avijeet Das

“Dialogue is just two monologues clashing.”

— Russell T. Davies

“Keep writing. It's all terrible in the beginning.”

— A.K. Kuykendall

“My best writing happens when I’m fighting to produce it.”

— Amaya Ellman

I love the structural part of the writing process.

— Kate Morton

“Writing poetry is supernatural. Or, it should be.”

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

“Experience is the catalyst for all great stories.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

So much of my writing process is trying to eliminate any kind of shame or fear of the thoughts that I'm having.

— Morgan Parker

It's beneficial to have that younger sensibility available to you during the writing process.

— Mikey Day

“Writing to me is like hitting the herb. No problems, Mon. No worries.”

— A.K. Kuykendall

Well, everything surprises me about the writing process because illustrating comes much more naturally to me than writing does.

— Brian Selznick

“I like to think I’ve written something worth reading when I cry the tears of the characters.”

— Carla H. Krueger

“When I'm writing, I make words my b*tch. But when I'm editing, the words make me their b*tch. It all equals out…

— Richard B. Knight

“Many a good story has been found in the bottom of a decent Rioja.”

— Ken Scott

I see my writing as the process of looking at the usual, but from two steps to the side.

— Katherine Dunn

“Most days, writing simply requires work-ethic, discipline, clarity, focus, time. Other days...it will demand absolutely everything of you.”

— Christy Hall

I enjoy the song writing process more than anything. It's what I like the most, just sitting in my room with guitar…

— Bernard Fanning

“The art of writing is not as solitary as one might think. When it finally dawns on us one day that our…

— Hal Zina Bennett

“You know you are a writer when characters inside your brain keep demanding, 'This is my story! Now tell it or I…

— Christy Hall

“It is always good – is it not? – when all that hard work of writing pages is turned into a solid…

— Ann Swinfen

My writings are an exploration, and I think a lot of writers would tell you this, but in writing, you're not simply…

— Alan Lightman

“Stories trace their roots to impassioned human interactions with the world. I always sense a storyline as an emotional yearning embedded in…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

By the end of the writing process, which is about 80 songs per album, I look at the material and think, what's…

— Jason Mraz

“Storytelling gives form to the metal dialogue of the mind and in doing so, reveals our self-fiction. Memory and imagination fills part…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“I write from Spirit. When it’s time for me to write, I have to lose myself in that world - meet my…

— Malebo Sephodi

“Autobiographical writing stands as lasting memorial for enduring the travails of an earthly life. Writing is an apt technique to score our…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Teach your students real-world writing purposes, add a teacher who models his or her struggles with the writing process, throw in lots…

— Kelly Gallagher

“Writing enables a person to build a protective barrier shielding them from an adverse environment, scrutinize their circumstances, and discover how to…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“I think of myth and magic as the hieroglyphics of the human psyche. They are a special language that circumvents conscious thought…

— Ripley Patton

I'm pretty critical, but I'm also pretty good at letting go once it's done. There's this existential argument that comes in, at…

— Chris Cornell

“... The Book is more important than your plans for it. You have to go with what works for The Book ~…

— Anonymous

“(Live + Think) x Different = Write Different”

— Bob N. Boguslavski

“Genius writers write simple, Garbage writers write fancy.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Create worlds of your choice by writing the books you want.”

— Marcia Carrington

“On the Writing Process: "When in doubt, take it out.,”

— Barbara DaCosta

Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul.

— Isabel Allende