“In front of me 327 pages of the manuscript [ Master and Margarita ] (about 22 chapters). The most important remains -… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
“Hemingway once said that ‘there is nothing to writing, you just sit down at a typewriter and bleed.’ What Hemingway failed to… — Sean Norris Copy Share Image
“I’m now writing out of rage — and I feel a kind of Nietzschean elation. It’s tonic. I roar with laughter. I… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The writing process is the time where nothing's been set in stone. It's a blank slate, or a blank page. — Leigh Whannell Copy Share Image
There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process. — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
“Don’t start right off writing the ‘Great American Novel’, that's too much pressure and you'll get disappointed; start with porn, it’s fun… — scavola 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
“Sentence making is an act of questing into unexplored regions, probing the anarchy of daylight, and exploring the troubling confusion and turmoil… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“But in the wake of 'Bullet,' all the guys wanted to know was, 'How's it doing? How's it selling?' How to tell… — Stephen King 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
“Writing, is not a race. Is to distill the soul letter by letter in a slow and delicate process that will take… — J.E. Negrete Copy Share Image
At the risk, then, of being shunned by some of my gloomier peers, I venture to tell you that writers work like… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“Writing starts with living. —Rumors of Water: Thoughts on Creativity & Writing” — L.L. Barkat Copy Share Image
Directing is such a crucial part of the writing process; you start directing and you see what does not work. "Oh, God,… — Conor McPherson Copy Share Image
I'll tell you what I was most surprised to discover about my writing process, and that is that I never know what… — Sharon Cameron Copy Share Image
“[The Great Gatsby] is a tour de force of revision. So much so that critics, who rarely mention the edit of a… — Susan Bell 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 think that writing should be honest and simple, and it should say something about what it means to be a person.… — M.V. Carey 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
“... The Book is more important than your plans for it. You have to go with what works for The Book ~… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The level at which my OCD enters my writing process isn't that I slap the keyboard - it's more along the lines… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“Writing is emblematic art form, which means that the book will never be any greater than the writer’s ability to perceive, classify,… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“To all the talented young men who wander about feeling that there is nothing in the world for them to do, I… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
