For me, the writing process is the same as the reading process. I want to know what happens next. — Neal Asher Copy Share Image
“Writing takes a pen, a sheet of paper and, to start with, just the shadow of an idea.” — Françoise Sagan Copy Share Image
“What is it about us lady authors and our fascination for the exclamation mark?” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
“Whenever I feel sad, I just take out my phone and listen to her laughter recorded in my online messenger.” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
The writing process for me is pretty much always the same - it's a solitary experience. — Sheryl Crow Copy Share Image
“I prefer to be on the side of losers, the misunderstood or lonely people rather than writing about the strong and powerful.” — Núria Añó Copy Share Image
“To find the courage to keep writing after constant failure is awesomeness. Winning is eminent.” — Sereda Aleta Dailey Copy Share Image
Creative people feel huge ownership of our content; we want everything to be done ourselves. But in book writing, there's a process:… — iJustine Copy Share Image
“Having read several prize-winning novels, Fancy was confident that she now knew the recipe: 1. Write a simple narrative. 2. Make a… — Jaclyn Moriarty Copy Share Image
“As a camera is an instrument that teaches us how to see when we don't have a camera, writing is a process… — Ted Agon Copy Share Image
“If a writer writes something that he or she has never experienced, I think the reader can sense right away that it… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“When I pour a bowl of Uncle Sam’s cereal, I never know if I should stand when I eat, salute it first,… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
“I gradually realized that I was seeing another example of creative ebb, another step by another art on the road that may… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
'Firepower' is the eighteenth full-length studio album for Judas Priest. That's a lot of metal songs over the decades, and the writing… — Rob Halford Copy Share Image
“[G]reat stories communicate simple truths that reflect the poetic dimensions of the human soul. Not only do powerful characters help us understand… — Kate Wright Copy Share Image
“From the beginning, I did not intend to create a typical classic fantasy. I wanted an organic, harmonious world where my story… — Irina Lopatina Copy Share Image
“Life is a collection of memories and feelings. Mawkish sentimentally urges us to engage in artistic overtures, we yearn to share with… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Writing is the dragon that lives underneath my floorboards. The one I incessantly feed for fear it may turn and devour my… — Quentin R. Bufogle Copy Share Image
“Oh God, for a few who will love me in tiny ways every single day of my flashing existence. For a mere… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
“I like what I do. Some writers have said in print that they hated writing and it was just a chore and… — Cormac Mccarthy Copy Share Image
“No writing is wasted. Did you know that sourdough from San Francisco is leavened partly by a bacteria called lactobacillus sanfrancisensis? It… — Erin Bow Copy Share Image
“Without entering here into a dissertation upon the historical romance, it may be said that in proper hands it has been and… — Rafael Sabatini Copy Share Image
“He feels a kind of holy exaltation as he goes about the business of writing this story; he even feels that he… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“You're never as good a writer as you think you are, and you're never as bad. Just keep reading and writing, writing,… — Don Roff Copy Share Image
“What is your advice to young writers?” “Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery. — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
“A writing tablet evidences the writer’s mind shadows, the dark twin that sketches the meandering of our conscious mind and taps into… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
The writing process is sort of like when you've got no electricity and you've gotten up in the middle of the night… — Carolyn Chute Copy Share Image
“As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granaries: they are always ready… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
“The effect your readers want is for what they read to trigger in them the sights and sounds and smells of what's… — Ray Rhamey Copy Share Image
“Fruition- Think of writing as a harvest. You till the ground. Plant. Water. Wait. Apple trees take years to bear fruit. Harvest.… — Keelie Breanna Copy Share Image
There are still songs that I'm writing. I like to write. I like to take a long time to do my songs,… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
Whenever I'm out and I hear something, I'm writing. It's the process of writing it down and then just always creating wherever… — Sabrina Carpenter Copy Share Image
I've described my usual writing process as scrambling from peak to peak on inspiration through foggy valleys of despised logic. Inspiration is… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
“Rather than feeling that every moment you’ve got to exert this enormous control, you can take the attitude that your job as… — Stuart Dybek Copy Share Image
When I started my writing process for 'Empty Bank,' everything had to do with money. It was at a time in my… — Jay IDK Copy Share Image
I try not to get analytical in the writing process. I try to just kind of keep the flow from my brain… — Quentin Tarantino 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 grew up on film sets but more around the process of making films. I saw a lot of the editing process… — Alice Englert Copy Share Image