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My life will be the best illustration of all my work. — Hans Christian Andersen

I was fascinated with the writing process and seeing the evolution of a sketch and how it would change up to the minute before it went on the air. — Trevor Moore

If I knew a story page by page before I started writing it, I just wouldn't do it. The process of discovery is really important for my own enjoyment. — Steve Toltz

I never have particular actors planned when I'm in the process of writing. — Susanne Bier

My writing is inspired by just about everything, yet I am unaware of so much of the process. — Hubert Selby Jr.

What I love is the writing, it's not having written. I like the process of it. — Michael Koryta

How to preside over your own internal disorder? Finding the "I" that can represent the pack of you is the first challenge of the memoirist. — Tracy Kidder

Yes, it was. The process of writing was important. Even though the finished product is meaningless. — Haruki Murakami

Every word I write is another stroke that takes me to the shore of a completed book. — Rob Bignell, Editor

It is kind of ridiculous that a poet is expected to live in the real world. — Sanober Khan

The process of writing has always started for me when I put myself in a place where no one distracts me. — Joyce Maynard

The process of re-writing and writing and re-writing means that you may have a brilliant phrase, but over time it distills and distorts and changes. — Abi Morgan

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

I enjoy the process of writing. The torment comes in getting my bottom on the chair and in front of the typewriter. — Caryl Rivers

Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion. — Red Haircrow

Writing, like any art, is a continuing process of discovering the infinite possibilities of Life. — Hubert Selby Jr.

In the last analysis, most of our difficulties come from losing contact with our instincts, with the age-old forgotten wisdom stored up in us. — C. G. Jung

My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: When you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip. — Elmore Leonard

Painting for process is the visual equivalent of journal writing, done not for the sake of being seen or published, but purely for the telling itself. — Michele Cassou

Usually form seems to find me in the process of writing a poem, though I have nothing against starting out with the form. — Matthea Harvey

As a writer I have to find platforms that can use this writing process. The internet is one of them. — Paulo Coelho

The art of writing involves making as many cups of tea as you can in the time available for writing. Then adding extra time for writing ... — Alan Dapre

There is a ruthlessness to the creative act. It often involves a betrayal of the status quo. — Alan Watt

It's not the medium that's the message - it's consciousness - the wonder of being able to wonder ... — John Geddes

The act of giving voice to this spiritual suffering is, in my view, the sacred duty of the writer. — Mo Yan

Once writing becomes an act of listening instead of an act of speech, a great deal of the ego goes out of it. — Julia Cameron

I loved the process of writing. — Nora Roberts

Collaborating on a film script involves two people sitting in a room separated by the silence of two minds working together. — Darlene Craviotto

I gradually realized that I was seeing another example of creative ebb, another step by another art on the road that may indeed end in extinction. — Stephen King

Being a writer is not just about typing. It's also about surviving the rollercoaster of the creative journey. — Joanna Penn

Many a good story has been found in the bottom of a decent Rioja. — Ken Scott

The process of creating is related to the process of dreaming although when you are writing you're doing it and when you're dreaming, it's doing you. — Robert Stone

My writing process is a mix of research, personal experiences, washing the dishes, raising kids while thinking - then writing. — Jean Craighead George

I do not distinguish between the construction of a book and that of a
painting and I always proceed from the simple to the complex. - 1946 — Henri Matisse

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

The worst part of writing is meeting all these great new characters and having no one to talk about (the adventures you share with) them. — Claudia Bakker

Writing is the process of asking the next logical question. — J. Michael Straczynski

On the worst day of writing, the work is instructive. On the best day, the act is transcendent. — Chuck Wendig

I do labor - it's part of the process. Writing is no easier today than it was in the beginning: writing well is very hard to do. Always. — Nicholas Sparks

The process of writing is a little like madness, a kind of possession not altogether benign. — Joanne Harris

The process of writing a book is like the process of preparing a dinner. Serving dishes, choosing ingredients and so on. — Brian Tracy

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make. — Truman Capote

A piece of writing is only worth doing if you're a different person at the end of the process than you were at the beginning. — Brian Morton

A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason. — Margaret Atwood

Half the fun of writing a novel is finding out from other people later on what you actually meant. — Iain Banks

For me, the process of writing a novel happens mostly in your head before you actually start writing. — Dan Chaon

Art is the overflow of emotion into action. — Brian Raif

The process of book writing for me is entirely one of trial and error. — Geoff Dyer

Writers are always alone, even in a room bursting with noises of the familiar. — Rachel Thompson

I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process. — George Murray

You can then further enhance the process of writing by forming the clear intention that your Higher Self will influence your writing. — Genevieve Gerard

You cannot write your character until you know how he or she thinks, until you know what their philosophy is in the world that they occupy. — Don Roff

The novella will be called, I think, "The Messiah of Stockholm." It takes place in Stockholm. I'd better say no more, or the Muse will wipe it out. — Cynthia Ozick

I start casting early in the writing process, so I can tailor the script to the gifts of the actors. — Judd Apatow

Until you take a pen to write, then you will see the miracle of writing. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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 is how I process the cacophony of each day. Prayer is how God makes sense out of my scribbles. — Donna Pyle

The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive. — Ridley Scott

I believe that when we write things down, we being the process of activating the fundamentals in our lives. — Jim Tressel

There's nothing wrong with delighting in what you do. In fact, most of the fun you'll have as a poet will come about during the process of writing. — Ted Kooser

Editing feels almost like sculpting or a form of continuing the writing process. — Sydney Pollack

The movement
Of 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,

It's neither and it's both. That's the perfect kind of art. Labels only detract from the artist's intention. — Ted Dekker

Right now we're in the process of writing new material for a new record. — Dave Lombardo

The easiest part of the writing process is whichever part I'm not currently doing. — Scott Tracey

Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth. — Stephen King

I love the structural part of the writing process. — Kate Morton

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

A day of bad writing is always better than a day of no writing. — Don Roff

We are only writing the history of our time. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

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

Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel. — Donna Tartt

I love stand-up, but the process of writing is a little more lonely. I want to keep doing both, though. — Jack Whitehall

I think this is the essence of life: to be willing circle back, to fall in deeper, to relearn what I thought I already knew. — Anna White

The irony of a writer is he/she craves privacy to pen words that crave the public. — Alisha "Priti" Kirpalani

A hammer made of deadlines is the surest tool for crushing writer's block. — Ryan Lilly

One of the problems of writing is that anyone who commits themselves to that process has to believe that they're good. — Steven Bochco

Writing is the process of making my soul tangible on paper. — Me

Writing takes a pen, a sheet of paper and, to start with, just the shadow of an idea. — Francoise Sagan

Give yourself the mental freedom to enjoy the process, because the process of writing is a long one. — Tara Moss

For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Enter the writing process with a childlike sense of wonder and discovery. Let it surprise you. — Charles Ghigna

Writing is the spectrum through which the chaos of life can be seen, studied and understood. — Stewart Stafford

I love the freedom of writing and then I love the realization of directing. I can't favor one or the other. I enjoy both parts of the process. — Dee Rees

I like the process of writing songs. It makes me feel good. — Colin Hay

The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning. — A. B. Yehoshua

I don't enjoy any of the process of writing. I enjoy it when it goes on if it zings and it has great warmth and import and it's successful. — Rod Serling

Writing is a psychological process. It is the process of taking what is in your mind and sharing it with others. — Gudjon Bergmann

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

fiction writing can be a blast when you set aside debilitating notions of perfection and just dive headlong into the creative process. — Chris Baty

The only 'ironclad rules' in writing fiction are the laws of physics and the principles of grammar, and even those can be bent. — Val Kovalin

I prefer the pen. There is something elemental about the glide and flow of nib and ink on paper. — James Robertson

Writing is one of the main ways that I process the experience. — Jennifer Pharr Davis

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

A writer has no use for the clock. A writer lives in an infinity of days, time without end, ploughed under. — Jeanette Winterson