Top Writing Process Quotes

It's all mine, it's all sacred.

A novelist is essentially a person who covers distance through his patience, slowly, like an ant. A novelist impresses us not by his demonic and romantic vision, but by his patience.

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.

You are lucky to be one of those people who wishes to build sand castles with words, who is willing to create a place where your imagination can wander.

You're never as good a writer as you think you are, and you're never as bad. Just keep reading and writing, writing, writing.

When I write, it feels like there are two little creatures that sit on each of my shoulders. One whispers, "You can do this. You've got what it takes." The other sounds like my mother-in-law.

When I write, I write obsessively. I try to pace myself, but some fires are too hot to put out.

While victors may get to write history, novelists get to write/right reality.

Art is the overflow of emotion into action.

I do not distinguish between the construction of a book and that of a painting and I always proceed from the simple to the complex." - 1946

I can't wait to get back to writing today so I can see what happens next Kim Cormack

I don't write to chase away my demons ~I wield my pen as a weapon...calling those bastards to war!

Working on it.

There is one myth about writers that I have always felt was particularly pernicious and untruthful—the myth of the lonely writer, the myth that writing is a lonely occupation, involving much suffering...

[When asked for her advice to aspiring writers] Run! Just kidding. Sort of. Really, I think the best advice I can give is to wait for the book that compels you to write it-- the one that you eat, slee...

Fruition-Think of writing as a harvest.You till the ground.Plant.Water.Wait.Apple trees take years to bear fruit.Harvest.Clean.Process.Then you have apple pie.

The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us regain our equilibrium.

The only difference between writers and people who don't write is that writers aren't afraid to display their demons.

And now, I have another good reason to speed up my baby narratives to make my author's profile appear more respectable.

Writing fluency sometimes needs an intense agony somewhere in your mind