The Process Quotes
The commendable efforts of preachers to Europe is that each worker no matter the level, knows he is participating in the process of creation with God hence the dignity.
The writer and his reader are both complicit in the act of storytelling. The writer must first leave a part of his soul on the page, like a contagion, which the reader then catches.
While a democratic process is morally desirable for arriving at a decision, it doesn’t necessarily produce the best outcomes.
...a thriller's toughest trick: carefully assembling everything we think we know, until it reveals the one thing we didn't see coming.
I have made so many mistakes but I have learned a lot and I'm confident to say - he who never made a mistake never made any discovery
The proof of humanity is that sometimes, we all make mistakes.
A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in the light of the information until that point
The characteristic common to God and man is apparently that: the desire and the ability to make things.
First achieve small things and you will achieve great things ultimately... and no one will forget.
Sometimes writing is just rubbing words together long enough to make a fire.
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.
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.
Every writer or wanna-be writer has ideas for books. The problem isn't finding an idea, it's choosing one
Leadership is a process where a leader has a purpose oriented destination and lets the followers find the best way to get there with a common vision and goal.
Writing is a process of creating yourself again and again for an ever-searching mind.
Withdrawing back is like ending school withouth examination which means your not tested to face the professional aimed at. Never get back on the aimed forward processes.
Discipline, not the Muse, results in productivity. If you write only when she beckons, your writing is not yours at all.
Words are the writer's sorcery, our dark arts and our sleight of hand. They're our enchantment and our temptation
There's no such thing as emotion.It's only body chemistry in action.
The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can’t, you’re dead
When I'm writing, I make words my b*tch. But when I'm editing, the words make me their b*tch. It all equals out in the end.
Writing is like surfing on a wild sea, in the middle of a moonless night, in a hailstorm, on a deserted island.Yeah... that about sums it up.
When writing a book what is more important? Grammar and spelling or telling a great story? I know which I would choose.
Never underestimate the power of the written word, especially when you put them down in your own voice." -Cheryl L. Ilov, Forever Fit and Flexible: Feeling Fabulous at Fifty and Beyond.
Writing is one means to investigate the mystique of life. Each fresh page is an unsullied canvas that an inquisitive writer employs to explore the poetic transience behind their existence.
When you feel that creeping self-doubt, acknowledge it. Write down your feelings in your journal... and then continue with your writing.
When you feel that creeping self-doubt, acknowledge it. Write down your feelings in your journal in your journal... and then continue with your writing.
Being a writer is not just about typing. It’s also about surviving the rollercoaster of the creative journey.
When you start out writing, your inner creative is just a little seedling with tiny leaves above the earth, peeping out into the air for the first time.
Writing is the spectrum through which the chaos of life can be seen, studied and understood.
Writing is draining. Every word is like lifting a stone and levering it into place. Your head aches, your muscles ache and every word you conjure up is heavier than the last one.
As a writer, the main skill you need is curiosity. As a reader, the main tool you need is open-mindedness.
Write what you want to write. That's the only advice a writer will ever need.
Never wait for your muse. Train him/her to show up to work when you do by pushing on. It's a dominant submission thing.
Someone asked me, 'How do you write a book?' I said, 'I live with a pen in one hand.
Allen Ginsberg instructs: "First thought, best thought." Oh, to have my every spontaneous thought count as poetry! No draft after draft like a draft
Books are like rivers, meandering this way and that, but taking us on a steady, flowing course to somewhere different.
When I write, I write obsessively. I try to pace myself, but some fires are too hot to put out.