Top Writing Process Quotes

Do not worry about what words to use. Worry about why this story needs to be told and the rest will take care of itself.

A successful self-publisher must fill three roles: Author, Publisher, and Entrepreneur—or APE.

Then I started to think in Lipp’s about when I had first been able to write a story about losing everything. It was up in Cortina d’Ampezzo when I had come back to join Hadley there after the spring s...

I began writing late; my first articles and stories were published after I was thirty, and I was motivated by money. Money is not a bad motivation. The need to eat keeps us from laziness, and the fact...

Stories are invented as you go along...

The irony of a writer is he/she craves privacy to pen words that crave the public.

Only my characters truly know what's happening - I just hold the pen

You don't write because you want to say something. You write because you have something to say.

The writing begins when you've finished. Only then do you know what you're trying to say.

Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.

At it's best,the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if you look for it. You search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then - and only the...

I am a perfectionist in spirit

I write to escape. I haven't managed it yet, but I'm working on it

The process of self-invention is never-ending; writer, like children, are always growing into their gifts. (Susan Larson in a "Times-Picayune" book review.

The only 'ironclad rules' in writing fiction are the laws of physics and the principles of grammar, and even those can be bent.

think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to f...

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

It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write.What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance.

There is only one thing a writer can write about: what is in front of his senses at the moment of writing... I am a recording instrument... I do not presume to impose story plot continuity... Insofar...

A writer needs solitude : moments that he can spend in introspection and in reflection. These moments make him pensive and thoughtful and help him write his thoughts with clarity. A life of devotion t...