The Writing Process Quotes
What one gains in technique can lead to deforestation in the writing that is both good and bad. Keep the energy and the willingness to proceed stupidly.
I suppose that I did for myself what psychoanalysts do for their patients. I expressed some very long felt and deeply felt emotion. And in expressing it I explained it and then laid it to rest.
Writing is like gardening. Planting, watering, and weeding are not enough. You have to prune if you want growth.
On the worst day of writing, the work is instructive. On the best day, the act is transcendent.
Books most certainly don't write themselves, but life does. When in doubt about what to write, use your own life.
Writing, is not a race. Is to distill the soul letter by letter in a slow and delicate process that will take years.
I'm really just playing when I write. I feel like I'm a kid again. I want my characters to do and say things like when I played with dolls!
Want to be a writer? take a good book a good pen and a notepad to bed with you every night of your life.
A writer has no use for the clock. A writer lives in an infinity of days, time without end, ploughed under.
I believe that what we want to write wants to be written
...I make no apology about stirring the depths - every human longs to swim under water and see what lurks beneath ...
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
...there is a myth called objective reality - we think an impersonal world exists apart from us - it doesn't - it needs us to be ...
...I know Shakespeare said art is holding up a mirror to nature- but you're actually bending and refracting it through your interior dialogue ...