The Writing Process Quotes
To write is to transform that inward gaze into words, to study the worlds into which we pass when we retire into ourselves, and to do so with patience, obstinacy, and joy.
...I know Shakespeare said art is holding up a mirror to nature- but you're actually bending and refracting it through your interior dialogue ...
...there is a myth called objective reality - we think an impersonal world exists apart from us - it doesn't - it needs us to be ...
I do not distinguish between the construction of a book and that of a painting and I always proceed from the simple to the complex." - 1946
...I make no apology about stirring the depths - every human longs to swim under water and see what lurks beneath ...
I believe that what we want to write wants to be written
A writer has no use for the clock. A writer lives in an infinity of days, time without end, ploughed under.
Want to be a writer? take a good book a good pen and a notepad to bed with you every night of your life.
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!
Writing, is not a race. Is to distill the soul letter by letter in a slow and delicate process that will take years.
Books most certainly don't write themselves, but life does. When in doubt about what to write, use your own life.
On the worst day of writing, the work is instructive. On the best day, the act is transcendent.
Writing is like gardening. Planting, watering, and weeding are not enough. You have to prune if you want growth.
I suppose that I did for myself what psychoanalysts do for their patients. I expressed some very long felt and deeply felt emotion. And in expressing it I explained it and then laid it to rest.
What one gains in technique can lead to deforestation in the writing that is both good and bad. Keep the energy and the willingness to proceed stupidly.
You don't teach a person how to write as much as you teach that person how to survive the writing process.
Writers know all the good reasons for subjecting their work to a sharp trim. Early drafts are notorious for repetition, indirection and overdevelopment of the trivial.
People wonder why you choose certain subjects to write about. The truth is: you don't really. They choose you
Writing is like making love, editing is like giving your great grandfather a sponge bath.
Rather than feeling that every moment you’ve got to exert this enormous control, you can take the attitude that your job as a writer is not to control everything, but to set things in motion.
I only write when the spirit moves me ... and the spirit moves me every day. William Faulkner, Oxford, Mississippi
And now, I have another good reason to speed up my baby narratives to make my author's profile appear more respectable.
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There are three difficulties in authorship: – to write anything worth publishing - to find honest men to publish it - and to get sensible men to read it. — Caleb C. Colton [1780-1832]
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.
Writing is hard work. Attempting to write a decent story is friggin exhausting!
Begin at the beginning as you understood it, proceed through the middle, continue to the end, and then stop, " said Master Li, and he sauntered out to get drunk....
When you know what you want to communicate, ask yourself: Who is my audience and what does he know about the subject?
They say a picture's worth a thousand words, but with me it always ends up being well over a hundred thousand.
It’s amazing how my mind opens up right when I have to run on the treadmill. I’ve finished three chapters rather than run a mile.
You haven't seen yourself until you look through the eyes of your characters."~Tanela Hicks
You haven't seen yourself until you look through the eyes of your characters.~Tanela Hicks
Today I will find something beautiful.Delicate pink blossoms on a cherry tree.The dove resting near the lemon buds.Sunbeams smiling from sky to earth.Smiling on me."Creating" in BREATHE IN
With poetry and writing, the question isn’t “do you know the right words?”.The real question is, “can you make words from the unwordable, chisel blocks of raw silence into shapes and touch our souls?
Whenever I feel sad, I just take out my phone and listen to her laughter recorded in my online messenger.
...it's not the medium that's the message - it's consciousness - the wonder of being able to wonder ...
The irony of a writer is he/she craves privacy to pen words that crave the public.
...when you're a writer, you become deeper and more uniquely distinct, the more you go inside yourself...
