“I'm really just playing when I write. I feel like I'm a kid again. I want my characters to do and say… — Lori Ann Lesko Copy Share Image
“A good plot is like a well-crafted puzzle. Each piece is vital to the bigger picture, connecting to each other to tell… — Janice Hardy Copy Share Image
“10 Steps to Becoming a Better Writer Write. Write more. Write even more. Write even more than that. Write when you don’t… — Brian Clark Copy Share Image
“The strongest, the most certain thing I think I know about the process is there is really, really good news if you… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Every single word that's on the screen, I oversee. There's nothing that's shot, I'm not involved in. The scripts go through multiple… — Matthew Weiner Copy Share Image
“And I've learned to hit the brakes at these kinds of stop signs rather than t-boning a tanker truck filled with 200… — Benjamin Kane Ethridge Copy Share Image
“All writers want to a place their mark upon human consciousness by creating a physical record of their distinctive thoughts and an… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“I’ve had a fountain pen surgically implanted in my left index finger to save trouble. My body is tattooed with line upon… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
“Mailer famously labeled writing the spooky art. He was right. There's a lot of frontal lobe blather, a lot of pencil-sharpening and… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“It's basically an act of faith, hoping that a small idea will unspool into a bigger whole. Sometimes, in fact often, it… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“I was in the book, and the book was in my head, and as long as I stayed inside my head, I… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“I know its totally senseless to attempt to write something 'great' in a time where people seem mostly concerned with bashing each… — Martinus Hendrikus Benders Copy Share Image
“Some writers need to sink in order to feel what their characters feel; in order to write their characters with the truest… — Lori Lifsey Copy Share Image
“I had found by experience that putting things down on paper helped to clear the mind in precisely the same way, as… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
It was always very important for us that we presented ourselves as a band, because it's a three-part writing process and it's… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
“She would have thought that working and living in continuous happiness, harmony, and security day after day would lead to mental lethargy,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“I do not distinguish between the construction of a book and that of a painting and I always proceed from the simple… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a fresh perspective is all you need to get a second wind on the revision process. Try viewing your material on… — V.S. Watson Copy Share Image
“No matter how much enthusiasm and effort you put into writing, if you totally lack literary talent you can forget about being… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The live show allows me to transcend myself, because it's not about me anymore. The writing process is very much about me… — Fernando Torres Copy Share Image
And when you start the season writing process, you just pitch a bunch of different ideas. In the end, you probably have… — Brendan Hunt Copy Share Image
If there was anything that I learned with my own writing process, maybe there's too many choices what to write about. Just… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
“A writer writes. There are no exceptions to this reality. No excuses. Stop wasting time talking about your stories and get them… — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
“I think if you want to make a recipe for making a writer, have them feel a little out of place everywhere,… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
“Storytelling creates a healing serum. The thematic unguent of our personal story represents a fusion of the ineffable truths that each of… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“I long for some connection, to the real and those who love them, and hope that my fiction can reach beyond the… — Shannon Celebi Copy Share Image
When we approach characters, we don't have their full story in mind right off the bat. Through the writing process we raise… — Anna Boden Copy Share Image
The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which… — Norbet Platt Copy Share Image
When I am working on an epic-length book, the writing process is fairly long. It takes from four to five years to… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
You have to relax, write what you write. It sounds easy but it's really, really hard. One of the things it took… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
Maybe that's when bad scripts are written, when you choose the theme first. I consider that I've something to say when I've… — Russell T Davies Copy Share Image
“But in the wake of 'Bullet,' all the guys wanted to know was, 'How's it doing? How's it selling?' How to tell… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
My dad never really wrote what he thought. None of his inner rage and darkness and problems, which we all have, made… — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
The writer is one who, embarking upon a task, does not know what to do... Writing is a process of dealing with… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
“Let life be the foundation. Be brave. Wander deep inside yourself to the little room no one knows about. Fling the door… — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
The writing process is not just putting down one page after another-it's a lot of writing and then rewriting, restructuring the story,… — Rebecca Stead Copy Share Image
But for any writer worthy of the name there are moments during the writing process when the rest of the planet might… — Maria Lenhart Copy Share Image
“To become better writers we must become the best thieves and liars in the business. We slink around the pages of everyone… — Chris Stocking Copy Share Image
“In quickness is truth. The more swiftly you write, the more honest you are. In hesitation is thought. In delay comes the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Writing a book is as different from digital curation as night and day. Digital curation is a series of split-second decisions: good/no… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
