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Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul. — Isabel Allende

Writing is hard work. Attempting to write a decent story is friggin exhausting! — Veronica Purcell

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

Perfectionism is procrastination masquerading as quality control. — Steven Barnes

Writing is easy. Writing well is hard work. — Amy Joy

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

Writers don't kill characters. Characters kill characters. — MariaLisa DeMora

Writing poetry is supernatural. Or, it should be. — Katerina Stoykova Klemer

It's a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn't even know you were aiming for. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief. — Marcus Valerius Martialis

I write to escape. I haven't managed it yet, but I'm working on it — William Meikle

Usually it is a painful process (writing), "Superman" came in 45 minutes; "100 Years" in four months. — Five For Fighting

A fiction writer weaves a fabric of lies in hopes of revealing deeper human truths. — Wally Lamb

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

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

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

Anyone who says writing is easy isn't doing it right. — Amy Joy

Give all that you can.
No more. No less.
Every. Single. Day. — Christy Hall

Begin to write, your heart flow with sacred words. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

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

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

I write not because I want to but because I am destined to. — Jules Haigler

Music - which I could never listen to while writing before I had children - became essential to my process. — Dean Bakopoulos

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

Stories are invented as you go along... — Orson Scott Card

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

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

She was strangely unaware that she could look and see freshly for herself, as she wrote, without primary regard for what had been said before. — Robert M. Pirsig

A writer writes. There are no exceptions to this reality. No excuses. Stop wasting time talking about your stories and get them on paper. — Christy Hall

Writing fluency sometimes needs an intense agony somewhere in your mind — Munia Khan

My creative process involves reading books and magazines, writing outside, and moving around a lot. I like to pace around when I'm writing songs. — Judith Hill

Writing starts with living. — L.L. Barkat

Raise the bar. Don't duck under it. — Peter James West

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

My writing has always been a rather non-linear process. I've found if I get something down, I can listen to it and other things start to come. — Pauline Oliveros

My best writing has to do with an internal process that I'm working out unconsciously and put into my characters. — Lyle Kessler

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

Live inside your stories, yes, but do not hide behind them. — Christy Hall

Nothing listens as well as a blank page. — Shaun Hick

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

Writing is not just a process of creation. It is also a process of self-discovery — Cristina Istrati

Writing is easy. Writing a publishable book is hard. — Eliza Green

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

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

Fiction is a careful combination of observation, inspiration, and imagination. — Luke Taylor

I was always writing music anyway. I just sort of fell into it. Writing for me is a therapeutic process. — Lisa Marie Presley

We're making strange fictions of strange things inside ourselves. — Clive Barker

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

Sometimes in fiction you had to mute reality in order to make it seem more believable. — Adam Langer

If you always move in certainty, your writing will be flat - creativity is a rugged terrain ... — John Geddes

Writing a book isn't an easy process nor is it always enjoyable, but it is one of life's most satisfying achievements. — Guy Kawasaki

I enjoy writing. I enjoy that kind of process. — Caroline Kennedy

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

Writing involves many [acts] tasks, not just generating text — Paul J. Silvia

I only write when the spirit moves me ... and the spirit moves me every day. William Faulkner, Oxford, Mississippi — William Faulkner

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

[...] 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

My best writing happens when I'm fighting to produce it. — Carla H. Krueger

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

Don't worry about what you're writing or whether it's good or even whether it makes sense. — Lauren Oliver

An unlimited supply of wonder and trust, bolsters life lived as a process of discovery. — Gina Greenlee

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

Most days, writing simply requires work-ethic, discipline, clarity, focus, time. Other days ... it will demand absolutely everything of you. — Christy Hall

When we make time to write, we can do it anytime, anywhere. — Julia Cameron

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

The first draft is just you telling yourself the story. — Terry Pratchett

I'm really just playing when I write. I feel like I'm a kid again. I want my characters to do and say things like when I played with dolls! — Lori Lesko

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

Research is a wonderful word for writers. It serves as excuse for EVERYTHING — Rayne Hall

As you continue writing and rewriting, you begin to see possibilities you hadn't seen before. Writing a poem is always a process of discovery. — Robert Hayden

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

My early writing was a silent fury - at what or whom, I had no idea - but I shut it in until it burned my bones and now, I've let it out ... — John Geddes

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

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

Learning voyage, the greatest adventure. — 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 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

Confession: I don't want to be one of my characters. I'm mean to them sometimes. Really mean. — Michelle M. Pillow

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

If a writer starts worring about what he or she has left out or forgotten, they might not be able to write even a single line. — Baby Halder

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