“The art of writing is not as solitary as one might think. When it finally dawns on us one day that our… — Hal Zina Bennett Copy Share Image
I enjoy talking to groups who are interested in the writing process or the industry. I never teach - because truthfully, I… — Lori Foster Copy Share Image
“Start with a word. A word leads to a sentence, which leads to a paragraph, which leads to a chapter, which leads… — Mark Pettinger Copy Share Image
In live-action, writing, production, and editing happen in discrete stages. In animation, they overlap - happening simultaneously. This allows a real dialogue… — Michael Arndt Copy Share Image
I try not to get analytical in the writing process. I try to just kind of keep the flow from my brain… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
“The trouble is, writing the damn thing is like unscrewing your skull and pouring the contents of your brain into an empty… — Mike Carey & Peter Gross 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
“She would have thought that working and living in continuous happiness, harmony, and security day after day would lead to mental lethargy,… — Dean Koontz 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
The writing process is more... it becomes a case of more like a diary for me. I mean, I write stuff down… — Christina Milian Copy Share Image
The writing process for a short story feels more like field geology, where you keep turning the thing over and over, noting… — Rivka Galchen Copy Share Image
“By applying their observational abilities along with full appliance of their logic and creative powers, writers attempt to create mental maps to… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“I believe you can consider yourself a successful prose writer when the number of words you put on a page each day… — Roman Payne 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
“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
“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
“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
“Dear music, I’m writing you this letter to thank you. Thank you for when you’re here, you catalyse my imagination. Thank you… — Alaska Berry Copy Share Image
“In the seventies I used to work in the bedroom of my flat at a little table. I worked in longhand with… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“Writing fluency sometimes needs an intense agony somewhere in your mind” — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
“I am swimming in a sea of words, attempting to keep my head above water.” — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
“What one gains in technique can lead to deforestation in the writing that is both good and bad. Keep the energy and… — Nancy Zafris Copy Share Image
“Writing structure is logical. Writing method at its best is instinctive. That way you get the benefits of both styles - improvisation… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“A writing day is like any other day. Except I live in my pajamas, I forget to eat, and I suddenly look… — Christy Hall 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
“Don't think about the writing process too much. Just do one thing: tell the motherfucking story.” — Don Roff Copy Share Image
“Writing is how I process the cacophony of each day. Prayer is how God makes sense out of my scribbles.” — Donna Pyle Copy Share Image
“No matter how much enthusiasm and effort you put into writing, if you totally lack literary talent you can forget about being… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The strongest, the most certain thing I think I know about the process is there is really, really good news if you… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The writing process was some of the most exciting and rewarding moments of my life. It felt a lot like being in… — Ethan Hawke 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
“Never try to keep it professional, keep it smutty, write with bodily fluids on sandpaper, and damn the men with clipboards in… — Peter Selgin 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
All of my scripts are based on other people's novels. Generally, I consider myself as one who writes for theatre. I do… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Writing is a process of discovering. I could never outline a narrative; that just sounds boring. There's no joy of discovery in… — Bob Shacochis Copy Share Image
A huge part of my writing process is listening to music as I write, almost creating an unofficial soundtrack to the film… — Panos Cosmatos Copy Share Image
“She was almost felled to the ground by the extraordinary sight which now met her eyes. There was the garden and some… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I read the novel I had been writing for several months with an odd sense that it was the work of a… — Chloe Thurlow Copy Share Image
“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
