“Writing starts with living. —Rumors of Water: Thoughts on Creativity & Writing” — L.L. Barkat 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
“I do not over-intellectualise the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.” — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
“Letters orchestrated into a song of words create the symphony of a novel.” — Leslie Austin Copy Share Image
“...when you're a writer, you become deeper and more uniquely distinct, the more you go inside yourself...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“Every writer or wanna-be writer has ideas for books. The problem isn't finding an idea, it's choosing one” — Jo Linsdell Copy Share Image
“People wonder why you choose certain subjects to write about. The truth is: you don't really. They choose you” — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we don't know where we are going until we get there.” — Jacqueline Simon Gunn Copy Share Image
“You have to stop and freeze the moment," he told me I had told her. "You have to make yourself remember by… — Jenny Hubbard Copy Share Image
“Good fiction writers have an instinctive understanding of human nature. That's what makes stories and characters captivating. Good spiritual writers share what… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
By the end of the writing process, which is about 80 songs per album, I look at the material and think, what's… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
Writing is always a process of discovery—I never know the end, or even the events on the next page, until they happen.… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
“It is always good – is it not? – when all that hard work of writing pages is turned into a solid… — Ann Swinfen Copy Share Image
“You know you are a writer when characters inside your brain keep demanding, 'This is my story! Now tell it or I… — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
I enjoy the song writing process more than anything. It's what I like the most, just sitting in my room with guitar… — Bernard Fanning 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
“There is nothing that requires more precision, and purity of expression, than to write in a familiar style,' as the great English… — Matt Weiland Copy Share Image
The most important thing in writing process is the vibe cause if you on a roll, if you feel it you just… — French Montana Copy Share Image
“I wrote the last sentence of The Patron Saint of Liars in early April and stumbled out of my apartment and into… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“Writing is a pitched battle with the elusive self, a contest that resultant celebratory jubilee demonstrates the writer’s innate capacity to meld… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“I think of myth and magic as the hieroglyphics of the human psyche. They are a special language that circumvents conscious thought… — Ripley Patton Copy Share Image
“Writing enables a person to build a protective barrier shielding them from an adverse environment, scrutinize their circumstances, and discover how to… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“... The Book is more important than your plans for it. You have to go with what works for The Book ~… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Storytelling gives form to the metal dialogue of the mind and in doing so, reveals our self-fiction. Memory and imagination fills part… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Sometimes writing is just rubbing words together long enough to make a fire.” — Gillian Marchenko Copy Share Image
“Want to be a writer? take a good book a good pen and a notepad to bed with you every night of… — Ken Scott Copy Share Image
“The farther away you get from the literary traffic, the closer you are to sources.” — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
“The easiest part of the writing process is whichever part I’m not currently doing.” — Scott Tracey Copy Share Image
“I write to escape. I haven't managed it yet, but I'm working on it” — William Meikle Copy Share Image
“Indentations on the page, words, my friends, and I will share them with you.” — Victoria Sawyer Copy Share Image
“Something is wrong with a sentence when you can delete words and not sense the loss.” — Sylvan Barnet Copy Share Image
There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process. — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
“There are three secrets to writing a novel. Unfortunately nobody knows what they are.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Don't judge me by my books. They're not my voices, and they were never my stories to tell.” — Nadège Richards Copy Share Image
“It’s one of those times when the question is its own answer…. The writing is itself the solution to the inability to… — Yael Shahar Copy Share Image
“Being self-employed means you work 12 hours a day for yourself so you don't have to work 8 hours a day for someone else.” — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
I don't really like questions about the writing process, because the truth is I don't know how I write. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“Words are the writer's sorcery, our dark arts and our sleight of hand. They're our enchantment and our temptation” — Karl Wiggins Copy Share Image
“Laughing in my ear is a muse amused by how I paint her whims on paper with silly words.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
I love the writing process. It's something that I'm interested in personally and something I always do on every movie. — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
