“Very early on, near the beginning of my writing life, I came to believe that I had to seize on some object… — Zbigniew Herbert Copy Share Image
“I’m a husband, a father of two, a full-time teacher, and so my writing process mostly involves sitting down and writing, any… — Glen Hirshberg Copy Share Image
I try and absorb all the things that I respect in the artist's I've worked with.When we work with someone on, Live… — Eliot Lewis Copy Share Image
“I hope you will go out and let stories, that is life, happen to you,and that you will work with these stories… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
“Foreword: Life is tension or the result of tension: without tension the creative impulse cannot exist. If human life be taken as… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
I can pretty much spend an entire week talking about how the writing process works, to be honest! It can really vary… — Rhianna Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Of course, the writer can impose control; It's just a really shitty idea. Writing controlled fiction is called "plotting." Buckling your seatbelt… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Sometimes touring can warp reality because you're never in one place long enough to get a feel for it. You don't interact… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
“Style is not how you write. It is how you do not write like anyone else. * * * How do you… — Charles Ghigna Copy Share Image
The process of writing fiction is totally unconscious. It comes from what you are learning, as you live, from within. For me,… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
“Still writing?" I usually nod and smile, then quickly change the subject. But here is what I would like to put down… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“Lewis had said that there is no creativity de novo in us—that we are all sub-creators pirating and rearranging portions of reality.… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
“A person gathers all their resources to compose a foursquare philosophy for surviving each day, an engagement driving at a union of… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I used to always throw in random questions. I'd have to ask about artist's single and their writing process, which I know… — Ruby Rose Copy Share Image
“All writers are demonic dreamers. Writing is an act of sharing experiences and offering of an individualistic perspective of our private attitudes… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“I believe that art is the highest expression of the human spirit. ~ I believe that we yearn to transcend the merely… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“I think there are two types of writers, the architects and the gardeners. The architects plan everything ahead of time, like an… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“I’ve never thought of writing as the mere arrangement of words on the page but the attempted embodiment of a vision; a… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“Every book adds a grain of humility and humanity to the communal ground that we tread. Writing is the one method that… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
The thing is that I don't normally think in terms of manga when I'm writing. Sounds odd from someone who has is… — Sean Michael Wilson Copy Share Image
“So I suppose one danger is that we might get the idea that, you know, “to blurt, is to be.” The idea… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Writing and other efforts to produce an enduring piece of artwork is a gallant response to the prospect of death. Every person… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“An opportunity lost may have motivated us to find a satisfying alternative. Adversity or suffering may have taught us certain important skills.… — Nan Merrick Phifer Copy Share Image
“Also, I do seem attracted to trash, as if the clue--the clue--lies there. I'm always ferreting out elliptical points, odd angles. What… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“I know now that the poem in my head, the one that pushed me to the page, begged me - or dared… — Juan-Paolo Perre Copy Share Image
“These scenes, by the way, are not altogether a literary device - a means of summing up and making a knot of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Inspiration do not come and cannot be found, it has to exist - somewhere, somehow. Do believe that what you are doing… — Liv-Christine Hoem Copy Share Image
“Then I started to think in Lipp’s about when I had first been able to write a story about losing everything. It… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The first splurge of creativity is kind of free, and the last 30 percent is painstakingly hard work, but it's good to… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
“All forms of creative thinking involve a struggle to conquer or master something, and usually that specific something eludes us completely. A… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“We live in a society that doesn’t offer any support or appreciation for ventures that aren’t clearly articulated and aligned for a… — Ron Carlson Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think that creativity is a matter of seeing, or stumbling over, unobvious similarities between things—like composing a fresh metaphor, but… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“A writer must develop a representative voice. A writing voice is reflective of the sum total of his or her cognitive, physical,… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Unlike Alice, Garp was a real writer —not because he wrote more beautifully than she wrote but because he knew what every… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“Writing is a beast to tame, an energy to transform. Whip that toad into a prince and French kiss it to life.… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
“Q: Do you have any advice for upcoming writers who want to pen weird stories? A: READ, damn it. Fill your brain… — T.E. Grau Copy Share Image
Everybody has their own approach to songwriting. When you're an electronic musician, the whole writing process just depends. Some people have a… — Travis Stewart Copy Share Image
To me everyone goes through that at some point in adolescence, you know. There's - you meet someone when you're a young… — Don Hertzfeldt Copy Share Image
What's so exciting and terrifying about the writing process is that it really is an act of exploration and discovery. With all… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
Usually I start with a beat, I start making a beat, and my producer side is making the beat. And on a… — J. Cole Copy Share Image
