The Process Quotes

Lyrics paved my teenage route to loving words. I take those passionate mini-stories with me everywhere.

Writing is not a numbers game. You should focus more on reaching the hearts of readers and building fans more than publishing a plethora of books that no one may care about.

Time to turn some phrases and place them on these here pages.

The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us regain our equilibrium.

A writer will always be a writer. It's not a choice, it's a destiny.

A writing day is like any other day. Except I live in my pajamas, I forget to eat, and I suddenly look up, wondering when day turned into night.

My best writing happens when I’m fighting to produce it.

I just slept for fifteen hours straight. Yes, writing a musical is THAT exhausting!

Because. Everything worth anything takes time.

Nonfiction. I didn’t choose it as much as it chose me. It squatted and birthed me one raw winter day then jerked me up and set me to scribing.

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.

Research" is a wonderful word for writers. It serves as excuse for EVERYTHING

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

Let your characters lead when you're dancing together.

Wish for the best, problems will follow you, challenges will come in the way when you move on, and your wisdom of learning will save you!

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

Your writing should be filled with simple complexities and complex simplicities. Because that is life.

You know you are a writer when characters inside your brain keep demanding, 'This is my story! Now tell it or I will never leave you alone!

If your screen stays blank or your notepad empty, God cannot use your words.

Science is a satisfactory curiosity.

Working on it.

I write not because I want to but because I am destined to.

There are three secrets to writing a novel. Unfortunately nobody knows what they are.

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

Today’s tangents will become tomorrow’s arcs, and unforeseen connections will tie up your loose ends in a way that will make you want to slap your head and holler at your accidental brilliance.

I like to think I’ve written something worth reading when I cry the tears of the characters.

The skill of writing needs much patience, practicing, and time. There is no good writing from a quick effort, or a confused writer.

To air one's views gratuitously, however, is to imply that the demand for them is brisk, which may not be the case, and which, in any event, may not be relevant to the discussion.

When you hurt one of your characters and then type faster to finish a scene while saying, "I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!

It’s one of those times when the question is its own answer…. The writing is itself the solution to the inability to write!

When entering a library, I never forget to bow down!

The structured form of an outline helps us to keep track of all plot lines in a series, and of course, this diminishes the chance of plot holes for us.

Don’t hold back and save stuff for the next book. Put everything you have into the one you’re writing, - Michael Connelly

You only fail if you stop writing.RAY BRADBURY

As you write your novel, you gradually start thinking like some of your characters in it. And at times the writer may lose himself completely in some character.

A writer must be willing to leave oneself behind in order to explore new territories of the mind and unearth primordial truths that startle and frighten us.

I don’t shy from writing about incredibly unpleasant, distressing things. And I get a kick out of it I confess. I like doing that.

Write what you wish with your soul and your heart will fill the page with your unique magic.

More and more I don't have any philosophy about writing, except that it is something we can do if God is good to us. Of course we are the ones who have to do the paperwork.

Writing involves many [acts] tasks, not just generating text

I have been sometimes way too attracted by my own villains because in a way they seem to hold the secret to the heart of the narrative.

Good writing is rhythm.

If a novel was a map of a country, a story was the bright silver pin that marked the crossroads.

I believe that fiction with its untrammelled nature, speaks to no one, and by so doing, speaks to all.

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

Writers don't kill characters. Characters kill characters.

Don't let others define your dreams.

I could never stand to be a writer. Not a real writer. It's entirely too awful, having thoughts that refuse to become sentences.

When you’re speaking in the truest, most intimate voice about your life, you are speaking with the universal voice.

When in doubt, go the scandalous route.