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• 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
• My writing is a process of rewriting, of going back and changing and filling in. in the rewriting process you discover what's… — Joan Didion
• A song that sounds simple is just not that easy to write. One of the objectives of this record was to try… — Sheryl Crow
• I have a structured songwriting process. I start with the music and try to come up with musical ideas, then the melody,… — John Legend
• The writing process for a short story feels more like field geology, where you keep turning the thing over and over, noting… — Rivka Galchen
• In the writing process, the more the story cooks, the better. The brain works for you even when you are at rest.… — 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,… — 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… — 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… — Larry Gelbart
• I really enjoy the writing process because I can do it from my house. I can create these characters and take them… — Ricky Schroder

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