The Writing Process Quotes

Whenever I feel sad, I just take out my phone and listen to her laughter recorded in my online messenger.

We write to embrace the sacred thoughts.

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

I was always observing. Even while talking, living, going through every motion, I was watching myself and the situation. That's a writer. Always observing.

...it's not the medium that's the message - it's consciousness - the wonder of being able to wonder ...

...when you're a writer, you become deeper and more uniquely distinct, the more you go inside yourself...

The irony of a writer is he/she craves privacy to pen words that crave the public.

The author is impacted by a hidden insistence that takes the shape of different combinations each time adifferent text is produced but the underlying problem remains the same for him.

The writer and his reader are both complicit in the act of storytelling. The writer must first leave a part of his soul on the page, like a contagion, which the reader then catches.

...a thriller's toughest trick: carefully assembling everything we think we know, until it reveals the one thing we didn't see coming.

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.

To air one's views gratuitously, however, is to imply that the demand for them is brisk, which may not be the case, and which, in any event, may not be relevant to the discussion.

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.

Don’t hold back and save stuff for the next book. Put everything you have into the one you’re writing, - Michael Connelly

You only fail if you stop writing.RAY BRADBURY

I don’t shy from writing about incredibly unpleasant, distressing things. And I get a kick out of it I confess. I like doing that.

Writing involves many [acts] tasks, not just generating text

I have been sometimes way too attracted by my own villains because in a way they seem to hold the secret to the heart of the narrative.

Good writing is rhythm.

It is the trivial little facts about anything that describe it the most effectively.

Writers don't kill characters. Characters kill characters.

Don't let others define your dreams.

Creating a novel means moving into the past, the hoped for, the imagined. It is an emotional journey, fraught at times with characters who don't always do or say what a writer wishes.

Even at the moment when the last page is turned, a great part of the book, its finer detail, is already vague and doubtful. A little later, after a few days or months, how much is really left of it?

Attention and focus are essential skills for writers in a noise-filled world.

We humans are the only creatures on the planet capable of articulating worlds which are contrary, even in the most minor way, to reality. Every story, I think, begins there. With a dream. A fantasy.

To write is to transform that inward gaze into words, to study the worlds into which we pass when we retire into ourselves, and to do so with patience, obstinacy, and joy.

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

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

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

It’s amazing how my mind opens up right when I have to run on the treadmill. I’ve finished three chapters rather than run a mile.

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

It was a dark and stormy night. . .perfect for staying indoors and writing a novel!

When you know what you want to communicate, ask yourself: Who is my audience and what does he know about the subject?

Begin at the beginning as you understood it, proceed through the middle, continue to the end, and then stop, " said Master Li, and he sauntered out to get drunk....

Writing is hard work. Attempting to write a decent story is friggin exhausting!

Developing your voice takes... time and practice.

In the last analysis, most of our difficulties come from losing contact with our instincts, with the age-old forgotten wisdom stored up in us.

There are three difficulties in authorship: – to write anything worth publishing - to find honest men to publish it - and to get sensible men to read it. — Caleb C. Colton [1780-1832]

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

I only write when the spirit moves me ... and the spirit moves me every day. William Faulkner, Oxford, Mississippi

Do what you love...

Briefer is better, so learn to write tight

The farther away you get from the literary traffic, the closer you are to sources.

Rather than feeling that every moment you’ve got to exert this enormous control, you can take the attitude that your job as a writer is not to control everything, but to set things in motion.

Writing is like making love, editing is like giving your great grandfather a sponge bath.

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

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 don't teach a person how to write as much as you teach that person how to survive the writing process.