Top Writing Process Quotes

If a writer writes something that he or she has never experienced, I think the reader can sense right away that it is garbage. The only thing that can replace experience, though, is imagination; howev...

Sometimes I scare myself at how easily I slip inside my mind and live vicariously through these characters.

They say a picture's worth a thousand words, but with me it always ends up being well over a hundred thousand.

Being a writer, I think, is much like being a parent or a pet parent in my case. I love all of my characters equally, even if I want you to hate them, I love them. If you don't love all your character...

I believe you can consider yourself a successful prose writer when the number of words you put on a page each day is equal to, or greater than, the number of milligrams of mind-altering chemicals you...

I gradually realized that I was seeing another example of creative ebb, another step by another art on the road that may indeed end in extinction.

Sometimes we don't know where we are going until we get there.

Never underestimate the power of the written word, especially when you put them down in your own voice.

I'm not talented or gifted. I'm a committed, meticulous workaholic. The only reason I succeed is because I refuse to fail.

I do not put in long hours at the keys - or very seldom. Instead, I snatch time. I write in the crannies of my life.

Writing is a struggle against silence.

Writing is like surfing on a wild sea, in the middle of a moonless night, in a hailstorm, on a deserted island.Yeah... that about sums it up.

« L'écrit ça arrive comme le vent, c'est nu, c'est de l'encre, c'est l'écrit, et ça passe comme rien d'autre ne passe dans la vie, rien de plus, sauf elle, la vie. »

So it is that a writer writes many books. In each book, he intended several urgent and vivid points, many of which he sacrificed as the book's form hardened.

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...

As a writer, the main skill you need is curiosity. As a reader, the main tool you need is open-mindedness.

Writing poetry is supernatural. Or, it should be.

People wonder why you choose certain subjects to write about. The truth is: you don't really. They choose you

So much of reading and writing to me is about being elsewhere, no matter how much I love where I am.

Every writer or wanna-be writer has ideas for books. The problem isn't finding an idea, it's choosing one