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...

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...

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.

There is a difference between fresh and weird. You never want to throw your reader out of the story. Keep it fresh but natural.

Fiction is a careful combination of observation, inspiration, and imagination.

Writing is the spectrum through which the chaos of life can be seen, studied and understood.

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

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

By small and simple sentences, great books come to pass.

I personally believe that one learns to write by writing.

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

« 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. »

Once they got into the idea of seeing directly for themselves they also saw there was no limit to the amount they could say. It was a confidence building assignment too, because what they wrote, even...

All kinds of mysterious phenomena exist in this world, but answers to most of them have come with advances in scientific knowledge. Love is the sole holdout-nothing can explain it. A Chinese writer by...

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

I believe that fiction with its untrammelled nature, speaks to no one, and by so doing, speaks to all.

Don't worry about what you're writing or whether it's good or even whether it makes sense.

Anyone who says writing is easy isn't doing it right.

I write the sacred words from wondering.

The art of writing involves making as many cups of tea as you can in the time available for writing. Then adding extra time for writing...