In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better.

Women are more sensitive, more practical, more intelligent, more balanced, better able to deal with people, better cooks, better parents, better carers, better leaders,…

— Craig Brown

If you bring in actors right when you're breaking story, it has a 'too many cooks in the kitchen' effect.

— Jes Macallan

In the writing process, the more the story cooks, the better. The brain works for you even when you are at rest. I find…

— Doris Lessing

I hope he cooks better than he fights.

— James Bond

The only person who cooks better than your mother, is her mother

— Charles Elba

Everybody in Italy cooks. They have a better knowledge of the kitchen - that's the place around which the whole of Italian society revolves.

— Gino D'Acampo

London has changed enormously and so have the English in the past decade. They're more like Americans and more like Europeans, too. They're always…

— Doris Lessing

My lesson from that [songwriting process] was that I should go back to where I was and try to make that first pure even…

— Yukimi Nagano

Enter the writing process with a childlike sense of wonder and discovery. Let it surprise you.

— Charles Ghigna

If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more…

— Taylor Dayne

My writing process is very feedback-based. When I do stand-up, I listen to the audience. I try to understand what's connecting, what's not connecting,…

— Mike Birbiglia

It's not writing in the traditional sense, but I've always said that the writing process continues on the set and even into the editing…

— Robert B. Weide

“You can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.”

— Jodi Picoult

“The sooner you finish procrastinating, the sooner you can get back to your art.”

— Stephanie Lennox

“Sometimes we don't know where we are going until we get there.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn