Writing Process Quotes

51 quotes by 49 authors

• The writing process is sort of like when you've got no electricity and you've gotten up in the middle of the night to find the… — Carolyn Chute
• My writing is a process of rewriting, of going back and changing and filling in. in the rewriting process you discover what's going on, and… — Joan Didion
• A song that sounds simple is just not that easy to write. One of the objectives of this record was to try and write melodies… — Sheryl Crow
• I have a structured songwriting process. I start with the music and try to come up with musical ideas, then the melody, then the hook,… — John Legend
• The writing process for a short story feels more like field geology, where you keep turning the thing over and over, noting its qualities in… — Rivka Galchen
• In the writing process, the more the story cooks, the better. The brain works for you even when you are at rest. I find dreams… — Doris Lessing
• Editing feels almost like sculpting or a form of continuing the writing process. — Sydney Pollack
• The writing process is not just putting down one page after another-it's a lot of writing and then rewriting, restructuring the story, changing the way… — Rebecca Stead
• Enter the writing process with a childlike sense of wonder and discovery. Let it surprise you. — Charles Ghigna
• Teach your students real-world writing purposes, add a teacher who models his or her struggles with the writing process, throw in lots of real-world mentor… — Kelly Gallagher
• I love to play with language; make it do tricks, turn a word inside out to see if it's got a hidden meaning tucked away… — Larry Gelbart
• I really enjoy the writing process because I can do it from my house. I can create these characters and take them in the different… — Ricky Schroder
• If there was anything that I learned with my own writing process, maybe there's too many choices what to write about. Just the amount of… — Eddie Vedder
• The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning. — A B Yehoshua
• By the end of the writing process, which is about 80 songs per album, I look at the material and think, what's going to make… — Jason Mraz
• Usually I start with a beat, I start making a beat, and my producer side is making the beat. And on a good day, my… — J. Cole
• I love the structural part of the writing process. — Kate Morton
• Writing anything as an expert is really poisonous to the writing process, because you lose the quality of discovery. — Siddhartha Mukherjee
• We absolutely need to reform the Congressional budget-writing process. — Patrick McHenry
• When I write, I don't allow the fear of consequences to interfere with the writing process. I have in the past paid for my commitment… — Taslima Nasrin

Who Wrote These Writing Process Quotes

49 authors contributed a total of 51 Writing Process Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 2 Writing Process Quotes by Sheryl Crow
• 2 Writing Process Quotes by Doris Lessing
• 1 Writing Process Quote by Eminem
• 1 Writing Process Quote by Denis Leary
• 1 Writing Process Quote by Jeanette Winterson
• 1 Writing Process Quote by Michael Arndt
• 1 Writing Process Quote by Trent Reznor
• 1 Writing Process Quote by Carolyn Chute
• 1 Writing Process Quote by Trevor Moore
• 1 Writing Process Quote by Sarah Addison Allen
• 1 Writing Process Quote by Rivka Galchen
• 1 Writing Process Quote by Sue Monk Kidd
• 1 Writing Process Quote by Jay Reatard
• 1 Writing Process Quote by Sydney Pollack
• 1 Writing Process Quote by Neal Asher
• 1 Writing Process Quote by Rebecca Stead
• 1 Writing Process Quote by Amy Bloom
• 1 Writing Process Quote by Charles Ghigna
• 1 Writing Process Quote by Cynthia Voigt
• 1 Writing Process Quote by Kelly Gallagher
• 1 Writing Process Quote by Taylor Dayne
• 1 Writing Process Quote by Larry Gelbart
• 1 Writing Process Quote by Brian Selznick
• 1 Writing Process Quote by Ricky Schroder
• 1 Writing Process Quote by Curtis Jackson