Top Writing Process Quotes

I'm not a writer. Ernest Hemingway was a writer. I just have a vivid imagination and type 90 WPM.

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

I hope I don't write TOO many books! When I look at authors who have written too many books, I wonder to myself "When did they live?" I certainly want to write BECAUSE I live! I know I don't want to w...

And as your writing evolves, what you need and get from it evolves.

The worst part of writing is meeting all these great new characters and having no one to talk about (the adventures you share with) them.

I think there are two types of writers, the architects and the gardeners. The architects plan everything ahead of time, like an architect building a house. They know how many rooms are going to be in...

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.

You cannot write your character until you know how he or she thinks, until you know what their philosophy is in the world that they occupy.

When a person sets out to learn from others and not to teach others he becomes a true writer.

Developing your voice takes... time and practice.

Sometimes when I prepare to write, I feel the same sensation wash over me as if my toes were curling over the brink of a high cliff, my gaze peering downward into a dark pond, and I anxiously wonder,...

A day of bad writing is always better than a day of no writing.

Coffee, my delight of the morning; yoga, my delight of the noon. Then before nightfall, I run along the pleasant paths of the Jardin du Luxembourg. For when air cycles through the lungs, and the body...

At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that — the young man or the young woman must possess or teach himself, train himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and t...

You need the devotion to your work that a priest of God has for his.

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

Life is a book. There are many pages to be written.

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.

Writing is the dragon that lives underneath my floorboards. The one I incessantly feed for fear it may turn and devour my ass. Writing is the friend who doesn't return my phone calls; the itch I'm una...

Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life. If they observed this duty conscientiously, they would give us fewer pictures chequered with vivid contrasts of light and sh...