Top Writing Process Quotes

Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description.

Give the reader what they want, just not the way they expect it.

When you write, you want to get rid of the world, do you not? Of course you do. When you're writing, you're creating your own worlds.

I cannot tell you how important fresh, crisp writing is for an aspiring writer. Plot is great. The overall concept is super important. But the writing is what sells your work. It all boils down to the...

I am a perfectionist in spirit

Books most certainly don't write themselves, but life does. When in doubt about what to write, use your own 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!

Allen Ginsberg instructs: First thought, best thought. Oh, to have my every spontaneous thought count as poetry! No draft after draft like a draft horse.Clayton Eshleman, laughing, said, 'First though...

Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her scribbling suit, and fall into a vortex as she expressed it, writing away at her novel with all her heart and soul, for till that was...

I would write:The soft melting hunk of butter trickled in gold down the stringy grooves of the split yam.Or:The child's clumsy fingers fumbled in sleep, feeling vainly for the wish of its dream.The ol...

People who want to write books do so because they feel it to be the easiest thing they can do. They can read and write, they can afford any of the instruments of book writing such as pens, paper, comp...

I never waited for my Irish Cream coffee to be the right temperature, with a storm happening outside and my fireplace crackling ... I wrote every day, at home, in the office, whether I felt like it or...

I am a creator, writing like the wind, I carry the weight of a future world in the barrel of a pen, etching my characters into the paper with life giving ink so my dreams and reality might finally mee...

There is nothing more valuable in the writing process than a friend to hold you accountable to your own potential.

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.

For most of the process, nothing but faith, fueled by your own stubbornness, will be pulling you along. The work that you've done on the book so far won't be much comfort, because so much of it will b...

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

I think that writing should be honest and simple, and it should say something about what it means to be a person. When God is good to us, we write in such a way that the act of reading becomes a pleas...

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

When in doubt, go the scandalous route.