I've also been writing with my guitarist, Ted Barnes, and he's amazing. Writing with him has taught me a lot about my… — Beth Orton Copy Share Image
“What one gains in technique can lead to deforestation in the writing that is both good and bad. Keep the energy and… — Nancy Zafris Copy Share Image
“If you have a story inside you but don't know where to start, look within and write from the heart, for the… — Shanda Trofe Write from the Heart Copy Share Image
What I did with my first records was, my writing process was that I didn't touch any instruments to write it, so… — Annie E. Clark Copy Share Image
“I read the novel I had been writing for several months with an odd sense that it was the work of a… — Chloe Thurlow Copy Share Image
“Writing is like surfing on a wild sea, in the middle of a moonless night, in a hailstorm, on a deserted island.… — Heena Rathore P Copy Share Image
I have enjoyed writing songs for so long... it felt like in order to make music that I could relate to myself,… — Bridgit Mendler Copy Share Image
During the writing process, I tend not to listen to too much music. I obviously wear a lot of influences on my… — Jay Reatard Copy Share Image
“A writer’s voice emanates from their interest and compulsions that absorbs them completely. Only by fully committing himself or herself to a… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
My books are based on the "what if" principle. "What if you became invisible?" or "What if you did change into your… — Mary Rodgers Copy Share Image
I think writing is a process that starts long before the writers are actually writers and probably goes on long afterward. It's… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“The trouble is, writing the damn thing is like unscrewing your skull and pouring the contents of your brain into an empty… — Mike Carey & Peter Gross Copy Share Image
“Writing down this mission statement is also a great way to "wake the page". That's the term I use to describe the… — Ryder Carroll Copy Share Image
Some sounds are coming from the keyboard and they are very important in the writing process, but on the other hand, we… — Nicolas Godin Copy Share Image
“The difference between wanting to write and having written is one year of hard, relentless labour. It's a bridge you have to… — Shatrujeet Nath Copy Share Image
I have a structured songwriting process. I start with the music and try to come up with musical ideas, then the melody,… — John Legend Copy Share Image
“The writer’s life requires courage, patience, empathy, openness. It requires the ability to be alone with oneself. Gentle with oneself. To be… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“She was almost felled to the ground by the extraordinary sight which now met her eyes. There was the garden and some… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Get your story written, you always have the second and third draft to fix things like tense, 1st vs 3rd person, the… — Andromeda Edison Copy Share Image
Pico Iyer describes his writing as "intimate letters to a stranger," and I think that is what the writing process is. It… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“The ultimate goal of any writer is to explore the lightest and darkest aspects of being. If a writer accomplishes this task,… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
My writing process is very organic. I start with an idea. I have the general story arc and the cast. But then… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
Basically, editing is done in rehearsal and in the writing process and in the acting, so it's very, very tricky, very, very… — Julie Delpy Copy Share Image
My writing process is chaos. I usually start with an overarching theme. Then I establish several story threads, but I don't outline.… — Lisa Lutz Copy Share Image
The real writing of a piece comes only when you are performing it. It is why I like theatre. In film and… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
“I don’t shy from writing about incredibly unpleasant, distressing things. And I get a kick out of it I confess. I like… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
I'd love to do another television series. I really love the writing process, and as an actor I really like how much… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
“I think a lot of this kind of work goes on at other (to say lower, deeper, or higher introduces a false… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I don't know that it's particularly good for my writing process, but I have gotten some very valuable writing ideas and advice… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
My actual writing process? I have to just love the beat before I even write on it. I can't force myself to… — Lil Nas X Copy Share Image
“The setting sun threatened to consume me—it could have, you know. It would have been a beautiful death with an honorable eulogy:… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
“Personal essay writing is analogous to undertaking a vision quest, a potential turning point in life taken to discover intimate personal truths,… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Since signing with Universal, I have been working closely with Gary Ross, the director, producer and screenwriter. We have spent many hours… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
“Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know… — Sharon O'Brien Copy Share Image
Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
“Admire the habits and accomplishments of other authors, but not to the extend it depresses or distracts you from accomplishing your own… — Sarah Gerdes Copy Share Image
I sometimes start keeping a journal about the writing process itself. Particularly when I get the ideas, and I am trying to… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg adress was so short. The laws of prose writing are immutable as those of flight,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“... my early writing was a silent fury - at what or whom, I had no idea - but I shut it… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“Today I will find something beautiful. Delicate pink blossoms on a cherry tree. The dove resting near the lemon buds. Sunbeams smiling… — Eileen Granfors Copy Share Image
