“There's nothing more intoxicating than creating something from nothing. Creating something from yourself." Professor Piper” — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“Every act of art is a good faith attempt to arrest time – the motion of life – and make contact with… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Your writing should be filled with simple complexities and complex simplicities. Because that is life.” — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
“Don't judge me by my books. They're not my voices, and they were never my stories to tell.” — Nadège Richards Copy Share Image
“Being self-employed means you work 12 hours a day for yourself so you don't have to work 8 hours a day for someone else.” — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
“It’s one of those times when the question is its own answer…. The writing is itself the solution to the inability to… — Yael Shahar Copy Share Image
There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process. — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
“There are three secrets to writing a novel. Unfortunately nobody knows what they are.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Early on in the writing process, there is sometimes this temptation to write around the central drama instead of just aiming for… — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
“One author said "I write because I want to live a footprint in the sands of history.” It's hard to live a… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
I was fascinated with the writing process and seeing the evolution of a sketch and how it would change up to the… — Trevor Moore Copy Share Image
“Nonfiction. I didn’t choose it as much as it chose me. It squatted and birthed me one raw winter day then jerked… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
“Reading your work out loud to yourself it's good. It helps even more if you read to people. If they start yawning… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
You want the character to keep being able to grow through the process of writing, through the process of filming, and editing,… — Anna Boden Copy Share Image
“For many writers the goal is a 1,000 words a day. For me - just give me one thought, and the words… — Garry Fitchett Copy Share Image
The process of writing is a process of learning; and much has become clearer to me in the attempt to transform my… — Paul A. Baran Copy Share Image
“I think about Rilke , who said that it's the questions that move us, not the answers. As a writer I believe… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“[The Great Gatsby] is a tour de force of revision. So much so that critics, who rarely mention the edit of a… — Susan Bell Copy Share Image
“Isn't the writing of good prose an emotional excitement?" "Yes, of course it is. At least, when you get the thing dead… — Dorothy Sayers Copy Share Image
“There would seem to be four stages in the composition of a story. First comes the germ of the story, then a… — Malcolm Cowley Copy Share Image
I was always the type of drug user that I had no moderation. When I was smoking and drinking, I was full… — Ryan Lewis Copy Share Image
I don't play a lot of instruments so when it comes to the song writing process I don't have a lot to… — Barry Kerch Copy Share Image
“If you have a story to tell, put it out there. Get the thing done. No excuses. No procrastinating. No apologies. It… — James Hampton Copy Share Image
“A writer reports on the universe. When he presents his credentials, the gates of heaven and hell are equally opened to him.… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“Writing is that strange calling which weighs so heavily on the soul yet brings much delight in its achievement.” — Nancy LaRonda Johnson Copy Share Image
The writing process really became natural when it was real and from my heart, and I was exposed. — Tiffany Darwish Copy Share Image
“The easiest part of the writing process is whichever part I’m not currently doing.” — Scott Tracey Copy Share Image
“Something is wrong with a sentence when you can delete words and not sense the loss.” — Sylvan Barnet Copy Share Image
“Indentations on the page, words, my friends, and I will share them with you.” — Victoria Sawyer Copy Share Image
“I write to escape. I haven't managed it yet, but I'm working on it” — William Meikle Copy Share Image