Creative process Quote by Jack London

“Say only what is well-intended, true, beneficial, timely, expressed without harshness or malice, and—ideally—what is wanted.”

— Rick Hanson

“But fundamentally the reason for my not writing is the vague feeling that I have so much and such extremely important things to say…

— Franz Kafka

“It is necessary to avoid falling prey to the demands that others make, especially if what they want is different from your choices or…

— Steven Redhead

“Among people, particularly those I love, I so easily get talking and give out everything possible in conversation, so that it is not available…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Expressing your feelings constantly is like pleading. It comes across as needy rather than dignified.”

— Sherry Argov

“When you work to please others you can't succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance if catching someone's interest.”

— Marcel Proust

“This letter isn’t to mark any significant point in your life or mine. This letter is Just Because…Just Because.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

“Good words are a vain benevolence that demand no sacrifice and are more appreciated than real acts of kindness.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“You can make something mean anything you want. And you can spend a great deal of time and effort choosing your words and allusions…

— Frank Portman

“It is all work, and my inducement to it is not love or desire of fame, but the want of money, which is the…

— Samuel Johnson

“I want to assure you with all earnestness, that no writing is a waste of time, – no creative work where the feelings, the…

— Brenda Ueland

“To write requires passionate love of someone or something - even if it is merely self.”

— Cathryn Louis