“...writing with ferocity is a gift, provided that ferocity is a monomaniacal devotion to pursuing the truth ...” — John Geddes 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
“Writing starts with living. —Rumors of Water: Thoughts on Creativity & Writing” — L.L. Barkat Copy Share Image
“I was afraid I wrote neither well enough nor ill enough for success.” — E.W. Hornung Copy Share Image
“You don't teach a person how to write as much as you teach that person how to survive the writing process.” — Rowan Ricardo Phillips Copy Share Image
“We can’t choose our poetic fathers any more than our biological ones — but we can choose how to come to terms… — Rodger Kamenetz Copy Share Image
Enter the writing process with a childlike sense of wonder and discovery. Let it surprise you. — Charles Ghigna Copy Share Image
“Writers know all the good reasons for subjecting their work to a sharp trim. Early drafts are notorious for repetition, indirection and… — Pamela Erens Copy Share Image
“Each of us, along with our ancestors, inhabits the same cosmos. When we tell stories, we enter the stream of human consciousness;… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Of course, when you're making a documentary, you don't have actors, but nonetheless, there is a writing process that does take place… — Rithy Panh Copy Share Image
“For many writers the goal is a thousand words a day. For me, just give me one thought, and the words will… — Garry Fitchett Copy Share Image
Each book starts from ashes really. I don't feel that I have this to say or that to say or this story… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Every word I write is like a drop of my blood. If it's flowed passionately and long, I need time to recover… — Red Haircrow Copy Share Image
“Memory and imagination allow us to enter the womb of creation, devise the lens through which we translate our surroundings, and create… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“The best stories come from deep within us and are of us. Either our inner child comes out to play and makes… — Judith Kohnen Copy Share Image
“Coffee, my delight of the morning; yoga, my delight of the noon. Then before nightfall, I run along the pleasant paths of… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“I look out my window a lot. It’s just one of those things that keeps me grounded in this weird, one-with-nature kind… — R.B. O'Brien 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
“I began writing late; my first articles and stories were published after I was thirty, and I was motivated by money. Money… — M.V. Carey Copy Share Image
“time. Take a lot of it at the beginning of the writing process. I’m not talking about hours or even days. I’m… — John Truby Copy Share Image
[Henry Miller] was such a scribomaniac that even when he lived in the same house as Lawrence Durrell they often exchanged letters.… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“It takes three or four years before the present day sinks in to you as a novelist. It has not just to… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
In live-action, writing, production, and editing happen in discrete stages. In animation, they overlap - happening simultaneously. This allows a real dialogue… — Michael Arndt Copy Share Image
“I have written until I fell asleep with my computer on my lap. That can't be normal.” — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
“Passionate attraction to someone of the opposite sex will make a hero or a fool of a novelist each time.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“Create the worlds of your choice by writing the books you want.” — Marcia Carrington Copy Share Image
“Confession: I don't want to be one of my characters. I'm mean to them sometimes. Really mean.” — Michelle M. Pillow Copy Share Image
“...it's not the medium that's the message - it's consciousness - the wonder of being able to wonder ...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“A writer has no use for the clock. A writer lives in an infinity of days, time without end, ploughed under.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
So much of my writing process is trying to eliminate any kind of shame or fear of the thoughts that I'm having. — Morgan Parker Copy Share Image
It's beneficial to have that younger sensibility available to you during the writing process. — Mikey Day Copy Share Image
“Where the concrete kept his pain at bay, the page gave his pain a place to go.” — Daniel Abbott Copy Share Image
I see my writing as the process of looking at the usual, but from two steps to the side. — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding. — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
“I like to think I’ve written something worth reading when I cry the tears of the characters.” — Carla H. Krueger Copy Share Image
“When I'm writing, I make words my b*tch. But when I'm editing, the words make me their b*tch. It all equals out… — Richard B. Knight Copy Share Image
“Writing to me is like hitting the herb. No problems, Mon. No worries.” — A.K. Kuykendall Copy Share Image
Well, everything surprises me about the writing process because illustrating comes much more naturally to me than writing does. — Brian Selznick Copy Share Image
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