The Writing Process Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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.

It wont do to say that the reader is too dumb or too lazy to keep pace with the train of thought. If the reader is lost, it's usually because the writer hasn't be careful enough.

Writing is more about telling other peoples' stories than your own

Writing at its best is simply taking dictation from your soul.

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.

As a writer, the main skill you need is curiosity. As a reader, the main tool you need is open-mindedness.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

Getting started on writing a book isn't as hard as it sounds. You don't need a plan and an outline. In fact, all you need are two things: time and one idea.

Writing as a creative art flourishes only when there are no rules. Rules stifle you from entering the silent and forbidden spaces where the core of the story is waiting to be revealed.

...at seventeen I tried to write poetry confining myself solely to Anglo-Saxon words - don't know if it helped, but it made me more concrete ...

Writing creatively is a process of self-consumption that requires one to dive deeply inside of oneself with no guarantee of reemergence.

Forget ideas, Mr. Author. What kind of pen do you use?

You can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.

Collaborating on a film script involves two people sitting in a room separated by the silence of two minds working together.

So it is that a writer writes many books. In each book, he intended several urgent and vivid points, many of which he sacrificed as the book's form hardened.

Humility is an essential quality in writers who want to write well.

Sometimes we don't know where we are going until we get there.

Don’t ever let yourself surrender to writer’s block.

Experience is the catalyst for all great stories.

I grasp words for the sake of clutching My mind considers them heart touchingRight then I write for my reader's pleasureNot knowing what distance a soul can measure

It's all mine, it's all sacred.

I’ve had a fountain pen surgically implanted in my left index finger to save trouble. My body is tattooed with line upon line of truth, fiction, and a not-always-pleasing mix of the two.

When I pour a bowl of Uncle Sam’s cereal, I never know if I should stand when I eat, salute it first, or simply hum the Star Spangled Banner between mouthfuls.

As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granaries: they are always ready to enlarge their store.

Distraction is reading written word and when I seek to make distraction I write the words I wish to be enveloped in.

words are a border collie’s worst nightmare.

In a suspended psychic state, writers cull words and symbols from the mystical world of memory, imagination, and intuition.

I wish my brain had an off switch. Maybe that way I could get some sleep.

Inspiration for my short stories grows from a psychic kernel, a vision of some sort or an eccentric, colorful dream.

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.

Writing is like daydreaming through your fingers.

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

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.

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

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