My writing process often begins with a question. I write down ideas and let them stew for about a year. Then, when… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
“The novella will be called, I think, “The Messiah of Stockholm.” It takes place in Stockholm. I’d better say no more, or… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
“Starting your book is only the first five miles of a twenty-six-mile marathon that’s one-third of a triathlon (authoring, publishing, and entrepreneuring).” — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
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“For writers, handing a manuscript off to an editor is like walking into a parole hearing. You’ve done the time but wonder… — Shandy L. Kurth Copy Share Image
When I write, I don't allow the fear of consequences to interfere with the writing process. I have in the past paid… — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
“All good writers write [terrible first drafts.] This is how they end up with good second drafts and terrific third drafts. .… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“The irony that all writers confront and must overcome is that the writer is afraid to commence, frightened to finish what is… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
We don't think about how the songs are going to translate so much during the writing process. Once the song is recorded,… — Tad Kubler Copy Share Image
“Without entering here into a dissertation upon the historical romance, it may be said that in proper hands it has been and… — Rafael Sabatini Copy Share Image
“He feels a kind of holy exaltation as he goes about the business of writing this story; he even feels that he… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“we write every day, we fight every day, we think and scheme and dream a little dream every day. manuscripts pile up… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Susan Griffin describes it as a time when "there is no intrinsic authority to my words." "I...clean off my desk. I make… — Judith Barrington Copy Share Image
“I like to skip prewriting. I love just jumping into the actual writing process. Then I revise/edit and fix what I need… — Nina Jean Slack Copy Share Image
“All experiences change us and personal writing is one of the most powerful agencies of change. The person who wrote these personal… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Deadlines help me, but my muse hates them. My muse functions in fits and starts, and tends to take very long vacations.… — Alistair Cross Copy Share Image
Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful distractions - adultery, alcohol and… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
“The night before a deadline, I usually am in desperate need of a back rub. And new wrists. And candy. And little… — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
My lesson from that [songwriting process] was that I should go back to where I was and try to make that first… — Yukimi Nagano Copy Share Image
What I didn't realize is that the writing process for comedies is that you do your table read, and if you aren't… — David Morse Copy Share Image
“In this book, much is metaphorical, not as it seems. It’s written for writing’s sake, as if I were to say, “Let… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
“People should know better than to be an ass in front of writers. We immortalize things. Lots of things. And we take… — Michelle M. Pillow Copy Share Image
“I'll never amount to anything—well anything my parents want, so instead I’ll end up puking and drinking till I’m blind drunk, It’s… — P.A. Bitez Copy Share Image
Our writing, especially during 'Boxer' - the recording process was the writing process, which is not the way I would advise anyone… — Aaron Dessner Copy Share Image
“It was the worst--the bleakest, the most physically exhausting, the most emotionally enervating--writing experience I'd had...I felt, and feared, that the book… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
“Writing is a form of intense thinking that takes a person on a journey into previously uncharted territory of the writer’s mind.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“You say you have nothing to write about? How do you find things to talk about? You can write about those things… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
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The reader has information about the characters that the characters themselves don't have. We all have our secret sides. Even I come… — Jaume Cabre Copy Share Image
Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who write, but… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I've always equated the writing process with editing, sort of like when I get through editing the movie, that's like my last… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
When I lived in China, my works were already being banned, and I couldn't publish. In those days, when I was in… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
“With poetry and writing, the question isn’t “do you know the right words?”. The real question is, “can you make words from… — Jacob Nordby Copy Share Image
“Yeah, episodic doesn't work. Your coolest character needs something big and meaningful to do. Otherwise, well, it's just narrative shit.” — Don Roff Copy Share Image
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“Writing structure is logical. Writing method at its best is instinctive. That way you get the benefits of both styles - improvisation… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
I think it starts to feel really redundant when you start to do something the same way over and over again. I… — Brie Larson Copy Share Image
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