Top Writing Process Quotes

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

If you have a story to tell, put it out there. Get the thing done. No excuses. No procrastinating. No apologies. It will never be as good as you want it to be, so forget about perfection. Just be sati...

I think of myth and magic as the hieroglyphics of the human psyche. They are a special language that circumvents conscious thought and goes straight to the subconscious. Non-fiction uses the medium of...

You write what you know, and I know rock and roll.

Writing is the thing that props me up.

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...

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.

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.

When the work is the best work, it's more like being a secretary than it is a creative person, you just sort of take the stuff down.

Writer's block isn't always a problem. It can be a process of writing that helps us write better.

I usually get the title for a book first, and I type it up immediately. I sit there and look at it and admire it, and I think to myself, I just need four thousand sentences to go with this and I'l hav...

I went on steadily trying to 'find out how to'; but I wrote two or three novels without feeling that I had made much progress. It was not until I wrote Ethan Frome that I suddenly felt the artisan's f...

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...

I write not because I want to but because I am destined to.

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

The structured form of an outline helps us to keep track of all plot lines in a series, and of course, this diminishes the chance of plot holes for us.

Writers don't kill characters. Characters kill characters.

When in doubt, go the scandalous route.

You haven't seen yourself until you look through the eyes of your characters.

How to preside over your own internal disorder? Finding the I that can represent the pack of you is the first challenge of the memoirist.