“For me, not knowing your theme until your finished is like using a scalpel to turn a kangaroo into Miss Universe –… — David G. Allen Copy Share Image
“Create the worlds of your choice by writing the books you want.” — Marcia Carrington 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
“You do not need to be temperamental or upset to be a novelist. Don’t embrace the tortured artist rhetoric that any life… — Bryant A. Loney 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
“Don't think about the writing process too much. Just do one thing: tell the motherfucking story.” — Don Roff Copy Share Image
“The best thing that can happen to me when I'm writing fiction is to lose sight of the fact that I'm writing… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“So what do you do when you are stuck? The first thing I do when I am stuck is pray. But I’m… — Andy Stanley 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
“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
“Where the concrete kept his pain at bay, the page gave his pain a place to go.” — Daniel Abbott Copy Share Image
My writing process often begins with a question. I write down ideas and let them stew for about a year. Then, when… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
“I argue here and throughout this book that if we engage students in real writing tasks and we use technology in such… — Troy Hicks 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
“What I like about the job of being a novelist, and at the same time what I find so exhausting about it,… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“You pull a book from the shelf and there was an invention... Almost like cooking, I thought sleepily. Instead of heat transforming… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
If there was anything that I learned with my own writing process, maybe there's too many choices what to write about. Just… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
I don't know that it's particularly good for my writing process, but I have gotten some very valuable writing ideas and advice… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
“Words are action, and sentences represent a person’s mental action and aspirations.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“I'm not gonna lie...sometimes this whole writing thing is a lonely business.” — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
I like the story writing process. I usually use someone who has been trained for structure to take the story that I… — Curtis Jackson Copy Share Image
“Writing fluency sometimes needs an intense agony somewhere in your mind” — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
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