My lesson from that [songwriting process] was that I should go back to where I was and try to make that first… — Yukimi Nagano Copy Share Image
“Deadlines help me, but my muse hates them. My muse functions in fits and starts, and tends to take very long vacations.… — Alistair Cross Copy Share Image
Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful distractions - adultery, alcohol and… — Adam Gopnik 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
Actually, I very much dislike routine. Creating music is my chaos therapy. The writing process puts me in a good place. Recording… — Mpho Koaho Copy Share Image
“Perfectionism is the enemy of the author. There is a difference between good writing habits and perfectionism. The author who displays good… — Gudjon Bergmann Copy Share Image
“Today’s tangents will become tomorrow’s arcs, and unforeseen connections will tie up your loose ends in a way that will make you… — Chris Baty Copy Share Image
I really enjoy the writing process because I can do it from my house. I can create these characters and take them… — Ricky Schroder 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
Teach your students real-world writing purposes, add a teacher who models his or her struggles with the writing process, throw in lots… — Kelly Gallagher Copy Share Image
For each of my novels, I've had something of a eureka moment of deciding what world I want to set it in… — Teddy Wayne Copy Share Image
“The process of putting the thing you value most in the world out for the assessment of strangers is a confidence-shaking business… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
The recording process was basically me meeting with different writers, going into their studio, starting a song and just hanging out and… — Bridgit Mendler Copy Share Image
“In front of me 327 pages of the manuscript [ Master and Margarita ] (about 22 chapters). The most important remains -… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
“Whoever wrote the column was careful in the wording of it." "Obviously Lord Lambert wrote it," Pandora said. "I wouldn't be so… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“Don't over edit. Don't second-guess yourself, or your ideas. Just write. Write every day, and keep at it. Don't get discouraged with… — Heather Grace Stewart Copy Share Image
“A novelist is essentially a person who covers distance through his patience, slowly, like an ant. A novelist impresses us not by… — Orhan Pamuk 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
My writing process is consecutive, like, 'mad scientist' crazy. It's not totally writing something that rhymes or even writing a rap necessarily.… — J.I.D Copy Share Image
My neck is too arthritic to snap around. The big shift in my perspective that happened in the writing process, however, was… — Charles R. Morris Copy Share Image
“The process of self-invention is never-ending; writer, like children, are always growing into their gifts. (Susan Larson in a "Times-Picayune" book review.” — Susan Larson Copy Share Image
“She was almost felled to the ground by the extraordinary sight which now met her eyes. There was the garden and some… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Get your story written, you always have the second and third draft to fix things like tense, 1st vs 3rd person, the… — Andromeda Edison Copy Share Image
“I read the novel I had been writing for several months with an odd sense that it was the work of a… — Chloe Thurlow Copy Share Image
What I did with my first records was, my writing process was that I didn't touch any instruments to write it, so… — Annie E. Clark Copy Share Image
“Writing is like surfing on a wild sea, in the middle of a moonless night, in a hailstorm, on a deserted island.… — Heena Rathore P Copy Share Image
“The writer’s life requires courage, patience, empathy, openness. It requires the ability to be alone with oneself. Gentle with oneself. To be… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
During the writing process, I tend not to listen to too much music. I obviously wear a lot of influences on my… — Jay Reatard Copy Share Image
I have enjoyed writing songs for so long... it felt like in order to make music that I could relate to myself,… — Bridgit Mendler Copy Share Image
“The ultimate goal of any writer is to explore the lightest and darkest aspects of being. If a writer accomplishes this task,… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
My writing process is very organic. I start with an idea. I have the general story arc and the cast. But then… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
My writing process is chaos. I usually start with an overarching theme. Then I establish several story threads, but I don't outline.… — Lisa Lutz Copy Share Image
Basically, editing is done in rehearsal and in the writing process and in the acting, so it's very, very tricky, very, very… — Julie Delpy Copy Share Image
Pico Iyer describes his writing as "intimate letters to a stranger," and I think that is what the writing process is. It… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who write, but… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I've always equated the writing process with editing, sort of like when I get through editing the movie, that's like my last… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
When I lived in China, my works were already being banned, and I couldn't publish. In those days, when I was in… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
“You say you have nothing to write about? How do you find things to talk about? You can write about those things… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“Writing is a form of intense thinking that takes a person on a journey into previously uncharted territory of the writer’s mind.” — Kilroy J. Oldster 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
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