“I'm really just playing when I write. I feel like I'm a kid again. I want my characters to do and say… — Lori Ann Lesko Copy Share Image
“If you have a story inside you but don't know where to start, look within and write from the heart, for the… — Shanda Trofe Write from the Heart Copy Share Image
“The farther away you get from the literary traffic, the closer you are to sources.” — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
“My stories are my children. Some are sweet infants that I coddle and care for. Others are old enough now, they need… — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
I enjoy the writing process and producing; I enjoy seeing an idea come to fruition. I'm driven by very complex characters. You… — Sasha Roiz Copy Share Image
“I read a book, am vortexed in with no escape; my face contorts, eyelids frost, breath comes short, body longs, heart stop-starts.… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
I write wherever I am. It helps that the writing process, for me, is a lone-wolf mission. — Passenger Copy Share Image
“If I can write, who possibly can’t. Even drawing a line in the sand is writing” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
For me, the writing process is the same as the reading process. I want to know what happens next. — Neal Asher Copy Share Image
“There is a ruthlessness to the creative act. It often involves a betrayal of the status quo.” — Alan Watt Copy Share Image
The live show allows me to transcend myself, because it's not about me anymore. The writing process is very much about me… — Fernando Torres Copy Share Image
What I didn't realize is that the writing process for comedies is that you do your table read, and if you aren't… — David Morse Copy Share Image
“You will never learn how to write well if you don't learn how to edit.” — Sarah Gerdes Copy Share Image
“To write a profound thought, I have to put myself onto a very special stratum, otherwise the ideas and words just don't… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“Writing like this is a little like milking a cow: the milk is so rich and delicious, and the cow is so… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Passionate attraction to someone of the opposite sex will make a hero or a fool of a novelist each time.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“The Russian-born novelist's writing habits were famously peculiar. Beginning in 1950, he composed first drafts in pencil on ruled index cards, which… — Mason Currey Copy Share Image
My writing process is chaos. I usually start with an overarching theme. Then I establish several story threads, but I don't outline.… — Lisa Lutz Copy Share Image
“Writers’ never-ending quest involves investigating genuineness while carving out narrative nonfiction. They must strive to reach great truths by recounting untold lies… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“I write to teach myself, explore myself, inspire myself (in which I always fail), analyze myself, clear myself (in how much deep… — Ovais Khalid Copy Share Image
“The principal theme of any autobiography revolves around the brushwork of self-transformation, the freeing of the self from the strictures of self-imposed… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Most days, writing simply requires work-ethic, discipline, clarity, focus, time. Other days...it will demand absolutely everything of you.” — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
Writing anything as an expert is really poisonous to the writing process, because you lose the quality of discovery. — Siddhartha Mukherjee 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
