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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

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

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

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

When you're speaking in the truest, most intimate voice about your life, you are speaking with the universal voice. — Cheryl Strayed

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

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

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

Anytime you put yourself in a creative box, it's going to stifle you; it's not conducive to the writing or recording process. — Frank Iero

What you keep alive is what you truly care about, no matter how many times you die in the process. — Shannon L. Alder

i write
because

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

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

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

Just as a good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche. — Julia Cameron

I know it's difficult in the beginning. But, listen. If you have the impulse to write, do yourself a favor, do the world a favor, and write. — Christy Hall

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

I've found that busting your ass on a daily basis to make your art good, clear, and meaningful creates the most luck. — Don Roff

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

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 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

..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

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

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

Indentations on the page, words, my friends, and I will share them with you. — Victoria Sawyer

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

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

The secret to writing is to get your own pain - shout it out till it hurts your throat - weep it into your pillow - then write it down ... — John Geddes

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

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

Heavy as such things are
After the wordslide, the writing begins."
From "Word Quake — Eileen Granfors

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

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

[...] She knew it a book it was not just a book. Everything had a meaning. There was an invisible web that connected the words. It was like magic — Ben Oliveira

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

Writing is like shadow boxing. Editing is when the shadows fight back. — Adam Copeland

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

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

Let life be the foundation. Be brave. Wander deep inside yourself to the little room no one knows about. Fling the door wide open and write. — Christy Hall

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

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

It is the trivial little facts about anything that describe it the most effectively. — Mary MacLane

Write what you want to write. That's the only advice a writer will ever need. — Chloe Thurlow

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

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