Top Writing Process Quotes

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

Writing poetry is supernatural. Or, it should be.

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

I'm writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale is improving the more I feel like a writer.

Starting your book is only the first five miles of a twenty-six-mile marathon that’s one-third of a triathlon (authoring, publishing, and entrepreneuring).

Writers need faith, or else we can never trust the action of our words!

I know its totally senseless to attempt to write something 'great' in a time where people seem mostly concerned with bashing each other heads in, there's only 1 bestseller a year that a 12 year old wo...

Time to turn some phrases and place them on these here pages.

I don't know which is worse—to have a bad teacher or no teacher at all. In any case, I believe the teacher's work should be largely negative. He can't put the gift into you, but if he finds it there,...

If the writer doesn't sweat, the reader will.

I would write:The soft melting hunk of butter trickled in gold down the stringy grooves of the split yam.Or:The child's clumsy fingers fumbled in sleep, feeling vainly for the wish of its dream.The ol...

I like what I do. Some writers have said in print that they hated writing and it was just a chore and a burden. I certainly don't feel that way about it. Sometimes it's difficult. You know, you always...

Today I will find something beautiful.Delicate pink blossoms on a cherry tree.The dove resting near the lemon buds.Sunbeams smiling from sky to earth.Smiling on me."Creating" in BREATHE IN

Don't give in to doubt. Never be discouraged if your first draft isn't what you thought it would be. Given skill and a story that compels you, muster your determination and make what's on the page clo...

The only thing you really need to be a writer is time. Regular, consistent time, quality time when you're not tired. I write on the bus to and from work, that's my time, 1 or 2 hours every single day....

I've discovered that sometimes writing badly can eventually lead to something better. Not writing at all leads to nothing.

I personally believe that one learns to write by writing.

I do not plan my fiction any more than I normally plan woodland walks; I follow the path that seems most promising at any given point, not some itinerary decided before entry.

Writing is like daydreaming through your fingers.

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