The writing process really became natural when it was real and from my heart, and I was exposed. — Tiffany Darwish 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
“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
“Stories trace their roots to impassioned human interactions with the world. I always sense a storyline as an emotional yearning embedded in… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
My writings are an exploration, and I think a lot of writers would tell you this, but in writing, you're not simply… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“...there is a myth called objective reality - we think an impersonal world exists apart from us - it doesn't - it… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
It's not writing in the traditional sense, but I've always said that the writing process continues on the set and even into… — Robert B. Weide Copy Share Image
In the writing process, the more the story cooks, the better. The brain works for you even when you are at rest.… — Doris Lessing 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
I'm pretty critical, but I'm also pretty good at letting go once it's done. There's this existential argument that comes in, at… — Chris Cornell 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
“Writing is a solitary venture. Making use of a soundless void in the vortex of time the author enters the realm of… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Writing is one method for revising a person’s outlook on life and observing the world and one’s place therein from an altered… — Kilroy J. Oldster 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
“Writing is more about telling other peoples' stories than your own” — Carla H. Krueger Copy Share Image
I have to say that writing about my writing process is more daunting than writing non-fiction. — Sefi Atta Copy Share Image
“Books most certainly don't write themselves, but life does. When in doubt about what to write, use your own life.” — Solomon Woytowich Copy Share Image
“I'm not a writer. Ernest Hemingway was a writer. I just have a vivid imagination and type 90 WPM.” — Tiffany Madison 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
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 always work with text orally in the writing process, saying passages aloud to measure flow. — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
“How do you feel when you read stuff written by dead authors? A visit by a ghost?” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“Writing is like making love, editing is like giving your great grandfather a sponge bath.” — Midnight Taylor Copy Share Image
“I've discovered that sometimes writing badly can eventually lead to something better. Not writing at all leads to nothing.” — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
