The writing process is the time where nothing's been set in stone. It's a blank slate, or a blank page. — Leigh Whannell Copy Share Image
“Don't think about the writing process too much. Just do one thing: tell the motherfucking story.” — Don Roff Copy Share Image
I try not to think too much about my writing process - I tend to feel my way forward and find more… — Nick Petrie Copy Share Image
“The sooner you finish procrastinating, the sooner you can get back to your art.” — Stephanie Lennox Copy Share Image
“To find the courage to keep writing after constant failure is awesomeness. Winning is eminent.” — Sereda Aleta Dailey Copy Share Image
“What is your advice to young writers?” “Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“You're never as good a writer as you think you are, and you're never as bad. Just keep reading and writing, writing,… — Don Roff Copy Share Image
I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery. — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
“Sentence making is an act of questing into unexplored regions, probing the anarchy of daylight, and exploring the troubling confusion and turmoil… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Don’t start right off writing the ‘Great American Novel’, that's too much pressure and you'll get disappointed; start with porn, it’s fun… — scavola Copy Share Image
“The fastest way to revise a piece of work is to send it, late at night, to someone whose opinion you fear.… — Sarah Manguso Copy Share Image
“[G]reat stories communicate simple truths that reflect the poetic dimensions of the human soul. Not only do powerful characters help us understand… — Kate Wright Copy Share Image
“A writing tablet evidences the writer’s mind shadows, the dark twin that sketches the meandering of our conscious mind and taps into… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
The writing process is sort of like when you've got no electricity and you've gotten up in the middle of the night… — Carolyn Chute Copy Share Image
“The effect your readers want is for what they read to trigger in them the sights and sounds and smells of what's… — Ray Rhamey Copy Share Image
“Fruition- Think of writing as a harvest. You till the ground. Plant. Water. Wait. Apple trees take years to bear fruit. Harvest.… — Keelie Breanna Copy Share Image
“time. Take a lot of it at the beginning of the writing process. I’m not talking about hours or even days. I’m… — John Truby Copy Share Image
“Coffee, my delight of the morning; yoga, my delight of the noon. Then before nightfall, I run along the pleasant paths of… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“I look out my window a lot. It’s just one of those things that keeps me grounded in this weird, one-with-nature kind… — R.B. O'Brien Copy Share Image
“A writer’s life is half ambition and half anxiety, and there has to be both. It is no good writing a novel… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“I had taken up my quill to begin writing many times before now, but I always abandoned it quickly: each time I… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“And yet, for a writer of fiction, part of the heart remains that of a stranger, for what we are trying to… — Margaret Laurence Copy Share Image
“Novels were not arguments; a story worked, or it didn't, on its own merits. What did it matter if a detail was… — John Irving Copy Share Image
One of the things is, in the writing process, if you do it enough, you have a sense of where you are.… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
“Whenever I feel sad, I just take out my phone and listen to her laughter recorded in my online messenger.” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“What is it about us lady authors and our fascination for the exclamation mark?” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
The writing process for me is pretty much always the same - it's a solitary experience. — Sheryl Crow Copy Share Image
“I prefer to be on the side of losers, the misunderstood or lonely people rather than writing about the strong and powerful.” — Núria Añó Copy Share Image
“As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granaries: they are always ready… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
Whenever I'm out and I hear something, I'm writing. It's the process of writing it down and then just always creating wherever… — Sabrina Carpenter Copy Share Image
There are still songs that I'm writing. I like to write. I like to take a long time to do my songs,… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
I've described my usual writing process as scrambling from peak to peak on inspiration through foggy valleys of despised logic. Inspiration is… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
“Rather than feeling that every moment you’ve got to exert this enormous control, you can take the attitude that your job as… — Stuart Dybek Copy Share Image
“As a camera is an instrument that teaches us how to see when we don't have a camera, writing is a process… — Ted Agon Copy Share Image
“If a writer writes something that he or she has never experienced, I think the reader can sense right away that it… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“When I pour a bowl of Uncle Sam’s cereal, I never know if I should stand when I eat, salute it first,… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
“I gradually realized that I was seeing another example of creative ebb, another step by another art on the road that may… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
'Firepower' is the eighteenth full-length studio album for Judas Priest. That's a lot of metal songs over the decades, and the writing… — Rob Halford Copy Share Image
“Always remember that writing is an alliance between author and reader. With every line we put down on the page, we need… — Hal Zina Bennett Copy Share Image