Top Writing Process Quotes

Build a strong foundation and you can reach even the most unthinkable heights.

Writing is daydreaming with ink.

The best advice I can give on this is, once it's done, to put it away until you can read it with new eyes. Finish the short story, print it out, then put it in a drawer and write other things. When yo...

...a thriller's toughest trick: carefully assembling everything we think we know, until it reveals the one thing we didn't see coming.

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.

Young people ask why I became a writer, as if it were something I decided. I didn't decide; it grew on me like ivy.

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 only write when the spirit moves me ... and the spirit moves me every day. William Faulkner, Oxford, Mississippi

Writing is like making love, editing is like giving your great grandfather a sponge bath.

You don't teach a person how to write as much as you teach that person how to survive the writing process.

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Nobody whispers it in your ear. It is like something you memorized once and forgot. Now it comes back and rips away your breath. You find and finger a phrase at a time; you lay it down cautiously, as...

I don't fire up the prose. I just tell it straight and don't fool around with it.

I read the novel I had been writing for several months with an odd sense that it was the work of a stranger. I usually work in the dead hours of night and surprising the manuscript mid-morning reveale...

A short story I have written long ago would barge into my house in the middle of the night, shake me awake and shout, 'Hey,this is no time for sleeping! You can't forget me, there's still more to writ...

The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself.

Writing's in the nouns.

All morning I lay down sentences, erase them, and try new ones. Soon enough, when things go well, the world around me dwindles: the sky out the window, the furious calm of the big umbrella pine ten fe...

A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and, having found what is true, to project it...