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Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul.
— Isabel Allende
Only my characters truly know what's going on - I just hold the pen.
— Sandra J. Jackson
Writing is simply another means for truth to escape, besides crawling out the hole it's eaten in the author's belly.
— Dianne Kozdrey Bunnell
Since I tend to write chronologically, the middle is always the place where the process is most taxing.
— Robert Paul Weston
I usually don't write about my life right when it happens. I process it, and I store it away. Then, when I get in the mood I pull the stuff back out.
— Lucinda Williams
When you're speaking in the truest, most intimate voice about your life, you are speaking with the universal voice.
— Cheryl Strayed
To me, there are 3 parts of the album process: writing, recording, and my favorite part: getting to sing the songs with the fans every night.
— Eric Hutchinson
All good writers are thieves. The best get away with a heist.
— Michael Stutz
Writing and learning and thinking are the same process.
— William Zinsser
To gain the book, one must give up all hope for the book. It is the only way the book can get written.
— Bonnie Friedman
Teasing out the way the world might look through another's eyes is what makes the creative process so fascinating and enjoyable.
— Stephen L. Carter
What you keep alive is what you truly care about, no matter how many times you die in the process.
— Shannon L. Alder
i writebecause
it is
the only way
i can
reach you. — Sanober Khan
Writing to impress others is the surest path to pretentious mediocrity.
— Katerina Stoykova Klemer
I love the writing process. It's something that I'm interested in personally and something I always do on every movie.
— Olivia Wilde
Every writer or wanna-be writer has ideas for books. The problem isn't finding an idea, it's choosing one
— Jo Linsdell
Do not worry about what words to use. Worry about why this story needs to be told and the rest will take care of itself.
— Moira Katson
I prefer the pen. There is something elemental about the glide and flow of nib and ink on paper.
— James Robertson
We absolutely need to reform the Congressional budget-writing process.
— Patrick McHenry
The brain is like a muscle; books are the diet and writing is the workout.
— Stewart Stafford
Writing is one of the main ways that I process the experience.
— Jennifer Pharr Davis
Don't write about Man; write about a man.
— E.B. White
To unlock the writer's block is to keep writing until you can unknot the "not". If you cannot, then put a can in the plot and unwrap it a lot!
— Ana Claudia Antunes
I'm not talented or gifted. I'm a committed, meticulous workaholic. The only reason I succeed is because I refuse to fail.
— Jessie Snow
If the writer doesn't sweat, the reader will.
— Mark Twain
For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.
— Lois McMaster Bujold
We can create transcending stories for readers and for us. Creativity is a double edge sword, which can kill the writer.
— Rossana Condoleo
Enter the writing process with a childlike sense of wonder and discovery. Let it surprise you.
— Charles Ghigna
Writing isn't about the process. It is about creating. The joy comes not from the process but from the creation.
— Harlan Coben
Your experiences are the foundation for your story; your imagination takes it from there.
— J.R. Young
Writing is the spectrum through which the chaos of life can be seen, studied and understood.
— Stewart Stafford
..here's the editor's prescription, writer: 1000 words daily until next checkup.
— Rob Bignell, Editor
Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.
— Isabel Allende
All the best writers take risks, offend people often and say fuck you to the critics.
— Carla H. Krueger
Well, everything surprises me about the writing process because illustrating comes much more naturally to me than writing does.
— Brian Selznick
In all honesty, I've written movies that have been made, and the process has not been as satisfying as writing for television.
— Vince Gilligan
the writing process behind The Tilted World.
— Tom Franklin
Writing is a psychological process. It is the process of taking what is in your mind and sharing it with others.
— Gudjon Bergmann
Writing is how I process the cacophony of each day. Prayer is how God makes sense out of my scribbles.
— Donna Pyle
We are only writing the history of our time.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.
— Terry Pratchett
Anxiety is not only an inevitable part of the writing process but a necessary part. If you're not scared, you're not writing.
— Ralph Keyes
Writing poetry is such an intense experience that it helps to start the process in a casual or wayward frame of mind.
— Edward Hirsch
Develop the skill of writing to avoid errors but if you do make them, don't be demotivated
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
I do not put in long hours at the keys - or very seldom. Instead, I snatch time. I write in the crannies of my life.
— Julia Cameron
When the work is the best work, it's more like being a secretary than it is a creative person, you just sort of take the stuff down.
— Stephen King
Writing like this is a little like milking a cow: the milk is so rich and delicious, and the cow is so glad you did it.
— Anne Lamott
So-called "inspiration" is no more than an extreme example of a process which constantly goes on in the minds of all of us.
— Anthony Storr
Pencil. Paper. Forget the world.
— Shaun Hick
Never use the passive voice. Do not say, 'It will get done.' Say, 'I'll do it,' and then stick to a solid, unwavering deadline
— Gina Barreca
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
I only write when the spirit moves me ... and the spirit moves me every day. William Faulkner, Oxford, Mississippi
— William Faulkner
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The writing process was some of the most exciting and rewarding moments of my life. It felt a lot like being in a band.
— Ethan Hawke
I love stand-up, but the process of writing is a little more lonely. I want to keep doing both, though.
— Jack Whitehall
A writer has no use for the clock. A writer lives in an infinity of days, time without end, ploughed under.
— Jeanette Winterson
Raise the bar. Don't duck under it.
— Peter James West
I love the structural part of the writing process.
— Kate Morton
I love the process of creating a story that will resonate in my readers lives ~ either inspiring them, educating them, or entertaining them.
— Kathryn Albright
If we are invested in a writing life - as opposed to a writing career - then we are in it for the process and not the product.
— Julia Cameron
The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.
— Ridley Scott
The trick to finding writing time is to make writing time in the life you've already got.
— Julia Cameron
I believe that when we write things down, we being the process of activating the fundamentals in our lives.
— Jim Tressel
It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write.What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance. — Steven Pressfield
Most people assume I write at night because of the kind of books I write, but I can shut out the light with my mind.
— Carla H. Krueger
The movementOf the body is
Where poetry
Begins — Clint Catalyst
You need the devotion to your work that a priest of God has for his.
— Ernest Hemingway,
As a writer, the main skill you need is curiosity. As a reader, the main tool you need is open-mindedness.
— Gloria D. Gonsalves
Give the reader what they want, just not the way they expect it.
— William Goldman
Learning voyage, the greatest adventure.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
