If you get trapped in your head and out of your body during the writing process, it's very easy to make wrong… — Soman Chainani Copy Share Image
I know that sounds ineffective and daunting, but it [throw hundreds of pages away] is actually my favorite part of the writing… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have… — Taylor Dayne Copy Share Image
“My stories are my children. Some are sweet infants that I coddle and care for. Others are old enough now, they need… — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
I grew up on film sets but more around the process of making films. I saw a lot of the editing process… — Alice Englert Copy Share Image
When I started my writing process for 'Empty Bank,' everything had to do with money. It was at a time in my… — Jay IDK Copy Share Image
I try not to get analytical in the writing process. I try to just kind of keep the flow from my brain… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
“Dedicating a writing session to someone is like sending a prayer for them out into the world. I will never know if… — Elizabeth Rusch Copy Share Image
“So what do you do when you are stuck? The first thing I do when I am stuck is pray. But I’m… — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
“The writer,' said Donald Barthelme, 'is one who, embarking upon a task, does not know what to do.' In this mode of… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Human beings innate complexities resist reduction into simple sentences and neat paragraphs. The stories that come nearest to expressing the ambivalent nature… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“I hope I don't write TOO many books! When I look at authors who have written too many books, I wonder to… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“Writers’ never-ending quest involves investigating genuineness while carving out narrative nonfiction. They must strive to reach great truths by recounting untold lies… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I love to play with language; make it do tricks, turn a word inside out to see if it's got a hidden… — Larry Gelbart Copy Share Image
“It’s very hard — weirdly hard — to clear your mind of all that crap so that you can just sit down… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
“I’m now writing out of rage — and I feel a kind of Nietzschean elation. It’s tonic. I roar with laughter. I… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“I know it's difficult in the beginning. But, listen. If you have the impulse to write, do yourself a favor, do the… — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
When I began to cover songs for YouTube, they all tended to be in the super pop-genre.. as in, smash-hit songs. My… — Alex Goot Copy Share Image
We have a writing process that's very much you try to create the character in a complicated way and then you let… — Aaron Ehasz Copy Share Image
Every word I write is like a drop of my blood. If it's flowed passionately and long, I need time to recover… — Red Haircrow Copy Share Image
“The best stories come from deep within us and are of us. Either our inner child comes out to play and makes… — Judith Kohnen Copy Share Image
“Memory and imagination allow us to enter the womb of creation, devise the lens through which we translate our surroundings, and create… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“For many writers the goal is a thousand words a day. For me, just give me one thought, and the words will… — Garry Fitchett Copy Share Image
Of course, when you're making a documentary, you don't have actors, but nonetheless, there is a writing process that does take place… — Rithy Panh Copy Share Image
Each book starts from ashes really. I don't feel that I have this to say or that to say or this story… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
I enjoy talking to groups who are interested in the writing process or the industry. I never teach - because truthfully, I… — Lori Foster Copy Share Image
“...there is a myth called objective reality - we think an impersonal world exists apart from us - it doesn't - it… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“Start with a word. A word leads to a sentence, which leads to a paragraph, which leads to a chapter, which leads… — Mark Pettinger Copy Share Image
“I suck the words word-dry to me, assimilated orderly at breakeye speed still hard and harder softer then line-lined book-dry ‘til not… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
In the writing process, the more the story cooks, the better. The brain works for you even when you are at rest.… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
It's not writing in the traditional sense, but I've always said that the writing process continues on the set and even into… — Robert B. Weide Copy Share Image
“A novelist is essentially a person who covers distance through his patience, slowly, like an ant. A novelist impresses us not by… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“Today’s tangents will become tomorrow’s arcs, and unforeseen connections will tie up your loose ends in a way that will make you… — Chris Baty Copy Share Image
I really enjoy the writing process because I can do it from my house. I can create these characters and take them… — Ricky Schroder Copy Share Image
“Perfectionism is the enemy of the author. There is a difference between good writing habits and perfectionism. The author who displays good… — Gudjon Bergmann Copy Share Image
I like the story writing process. I usually use someone who has been trained for structure to take the story that I… — Curtis Jackson Copy Share Image
Actually, I very much dislike routine. Creating music is my chaos therapy. The writing process puts me in a good place. Recording… — Mpho Koaho Copy Share Image
My neck is too arthritic to snap around. The big shift in my perspective that happened in the writing process, however, was… — Charles R. Morris Copy Share Image
“The process of self-invention is never-ending; writer, like children, are always growing into their gifts. (Susan Larson in a "Times-Picayune" book review.” — Susan Larson Copy Share Image
My writing process is consecutive, like, 'mad scientist' crazy. It's not totally writing something that rhymes or even writing a rap necessarily.… — J.I.D Copy Share Image
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