Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“...if you always move in certainty, your writing will be flat - creativity is a rugged terrain...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“I'm not talented or gifted. I'm a committed, meticulous workaholic. The only reason I succeed is because I refuse to fail.” — Jessie Snow Copy Share Image
“I'm writing a book. I'm almost finished. I numbered the pages. Now all I have to do is fill them in.” — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
“When I write, I write obsessively. I try to pace myself, but some fires are too hot to put out.” — Carla H. Krueger Copy Share Image
“In a suspended psychic state, writers cull words and symbols from the mystical world of memory, imagination, and intuition.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Writer's block isn't always a problem. It can be a process of writing that helps us write better.” — Jennifer Hudson Taylor Copy Share Image
When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn't feel laboring, that's usually a good sign for me. — David E. Kelley Copy Share Image
The interesting part about the writing process is that you can never see all the way to the end, not if something… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
Reading the final copy of my book was like walking down memory lane all over again. Sure, the writing process was emotional,… — Gigi Gorgeous Copy Share Image
“I have often believed the pen to be a needle, and ink to be a thread. Each story is an intricately woven… — Shaun Hick Copy Share Image
“The skill of writing needs much patience, practicing, and time. There is no good writing from a quick effort, or a confused… — Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi Copy Share Image
“The Throes of Poetry - Hymns formed from groans of acquaintance, its rhythm weaving between tranquility, compassions, and peril - like bare… — Traci Lea LaRussa Copy Share Image
“You can edit what you write. Why not edit what you say? If it hurts somebody, you can still offer an apology… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
The writing process is very much like being in a dark tunnel, and you don't really know what you will end up… — Emily Haines Copy Share Image
There is a fine line I have to walk throughout the writing process in a novel. It is this line between drama… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“Whoever wrote the column was careful in the wording of it." "Obviously Lord Lambert wrote it," Pandora said. "I wouldn't be so… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“In front of me 327 pages of the manuscript [ Master and Margarita ] (about 22 chapters). The most important remains -… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
“Don't over edit. Don't second-guess yourself, or your ideas. Just write. Write every day, and keep at it. Don't get discouraged with… — Heather Grace Stewart Copy Share Image
For each of my novels, I've had something of a eureka moment of deciding what world I want to set it in… — Teddy Wayne Copy Share Image
“The process of putting the thing you value most in the world out for the assessment of strangers is a confidence-shaking business… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
The recording process was basically me meeting with different writers, going into their studio, starting a song and just hanging out and… — Bridgit Mendler Copy Share Image
“He cut away the insignificant and incidental. Those bits were tossed away from the juicy core pieces. He slid the excess tissue… — Jeffry R. Halverson Copy Share Image
Writing is a process and you must trust the process! Fear and anxiety are part of that process along with the enthusaism… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
I'll tell you what I was most surprised to discover about my writing process, and that is that I never know what… — Sharon Cameron Copy Share Image
“Ever had a dream of flying? Being something more? For me, it is an endless objective. A welcomed reverie.” — A.K. Kuykendall Copy Share Image
“You will never learn how to write well if you don't learn how to edit.” — Sarah Gerdes Copy Share Image
Writing is the process by which you explain to yourself what happened to you. — Arlene Croce Copy Share Image
“Do not worry about what words to use. Worry about why this story needs to be told and the rest will take… — Moira Katson Copy Share Image
I start casting early in the writing process, so I can tailor the script to the gifts of the actors. — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
I wasn't letting people in with the music writing process, and for a long time, I thought I was hard to work… — Tobias Forge Copy Share Image
“I can't wait to get back to writing today so I can see what happens next Kim Cormack” — Kim Cormack Copy Share Image
It does feel great to be writing, but the process is sometimes excruciating. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
“academic writing is a process of making intelligent choices, not of following rigid rules.” — Helen Sword Copy Share Image
I don't see myself directing things I don't write because, to me, directing was just an extension of the writing process. — Danny Strong Copy Share Image
“On the worst day of writing, the work is instructive. On the best day, the act is transcendent.” — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it. — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
“Life baffles me most days. Maybe that's why I write. To try and make sense of it all.” — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
“The ending to your book is different from the ending to your plot.” — Jennifer Probst Copy Share Image
“If a plot is a novel's skeleton, and characters are the muscle, then theme is its soul.” — Janice Hardy Copy Share Image