The Process Quotes

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.

Poetry is a connection to a change within you.

I'm not talented or gifted. I'm a committed, meticulous workaholic. The only reason I succeed is because I refuse to fail.

The night before a deadline, I usually am in desperate need of a back rub. And new wrists. And candy. And little mice to secretly finish the job while I am sleeping.

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.

Fruition-Think of writing as a harvest.You till the ground.Plant.Water.Wait.Apple trees take years to bear fruit.Harvest.Clean.Process.Then you have apple pie.

I was always observing. Even while talking, living, going through every motion, I was watching myself and the situation. That's a writer. Always observing.

Being the Novelist-in-Residence at a riad hotel in the kasbah of an Arabic North African city is a lot like trying to write one’s memoirs on shreds of napkins in a nuthouse.

The writer, his eye on the finish line, never gave enough thought to how to run the race.

Writing is an art and a skill that can be developed

Life is sacred story.

Writing is like daydreaming through your fingers.

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

to be a poet meansto live with a permanent wound forever susceptibleto either the shade of the skyor someone's eyes.

..here's the editor's prescription, writer: 1000 words daily until next checkup.

Every word I write is another stroke that takes me to the shore of a completed book.

If you have a story inside you but don't know where to start, look within and write from the heart, for the heart will never steer you wrong.

And I've learned to hit the brakes at these kinds of stop signs rather than t-boning a tanker truck filled with 200 proof mediocrity.

What is it about us lady authors and our fascination for the exclamation mark?

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.

I am swimming in a sea of words, attempting to keep my head above water.

Life baffles me most days. Maybe that's why I write. To try and make sense of it all.

I have written until I fell asleep with my computer on my lap. That can't be normal.

I'm not gonna lie...sometimes this whole writing thing is a lonely business.

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

When a solid first draft of an original tale is complete...you feel as if you could do anything.

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

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

Don't be afraid of what you're creating.

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.

Write the ending first and then you'll know before the opening sentence that it's going to be a good book.

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

Enjoy the adventure, because that’s what it’s all about - the process, not the result. The ultimate result is death. The ultimate process is life. Fact.

Theere is an imperative to be in a process, the energy & consciousness of life means for us to be constantly observing, learning & becoming.

Proper process, should not hinder progress. Too much focus on process, has left many blind to measured, tangible progress.

Shh, listen, don’t be discouraged if you don’t win. It’s a learning process. You’ll get better with each try.

Dialogue is not just quotation. It is grimaces, pauses, adjustments of blouse buttons, doodles on a napkin, and crossings of legs.

...language always occurs in a context - you can speak Elizabethan words, but to speak the language you have to put on the mindset...

Storytelling creates a healing serum. The thematic unguent of our personal story represents a fusion of the ineffable truths that each of us must discover within ourselves.

We are all born agnostics. Atheism and theism is sold to us.

Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so

Stay positive. Sometimes you don't even realize you're blocking your own blessings by thinking negatively and holding on to the past. Learn to let go.

Our generation thinks only about where they are going not how they are driving

The thing I've learned is that thinking is not writing.

Scientists are human—they're as biased as any other group. But they do have one great advantage in that science is a self-correcting process.

The only difference between writers and people who don't write is that writers aren't afraid to display their demons.

There are raw materials undeveloped burning inside you but need a platform to materialize and manifest.

Self-education is one of the strongest pillars in the mind of every great person because it is an ongoing process that never ends.

The quest for knowledge shouldn't stop at the highest level of school education. It is a never-ending process.

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you