The Writing Process Quotes

Always being myself and my salve, which is life. I’m not lonely, if that’s what it seems like. Always writing things down.

I’ve always said, ‘I have nothing to say, only to add.’ And it’s with each addition that the writing gets done. The first draft of anything is really just a track.

A successful self-publisher must fill three roles: Author, Publisher, and Entrepreneur—or APE.

What does literature do for me? I think I solve problems in my writing. They may be my problems, but perhaps others share them, and in the process of working these through, I hope to entertain.

There's no better way to process pain than to write.

If you do improvising, it can sometimes end up being a waste of time. And if you do that, it's more or less based on a writing process.

Basically, editing is done in rehearsal and in the writing process and in the acting, so it's very, very tricky, very, very tricky.

I enjoy writing. I enjoy that kind of process.

Well, everything surprises me about the writing process because illustrating comes much more naturally to me than writing does.

The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story.... Writing is seduction. Good talk is part of seduction.

Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, ideas, opinions.

I read in order to write. I read out of obsession with writing.

Why does everyone think a guy who prefers love to people is missing something in his life?

It’s such a confidence trick, writing a novel. The main person you have to trick into confidence is yourself. This is hard to do alone.

A lot of artists start out as failed poets, then move on to being failed short-story writers before they finally break through to the big time and become failed novelists.

Writing is the thing that props me up.

Story seems to say that everything happens for a reason and I want to say, No, it doesn’t.

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

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

I do not over-intellectualise the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.

When writers stop believing in their own stories, readers tend to sense it.

When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn't feel laboring, that's usually a good sign for me.

My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding.

I love the structural part of the writing process.

Music is an important part of my writing process.

I love the writing process. It's something that I'm interested in personally and something I always do on every movie.

I have to say that writing about my writing process is more daunting than writing non-fiction.

I'll tell you what I was most surprised to discover about my writing process, and that is that I never know what I'm doing.

I always work with text orally in the writing process, saying passages aloud to measure flow.

I have enjoyed writing songs for so long... it felt like in order to make music that I could relate to myself, I would have to be a part of the writing process.

My writing process is very feedback-based. When I do stand-up, I listen to the audience. I try to understand what's connecting, what's not connecting, and then rewrite, rewrite and rewrite.

My neck is too arthritic to snap around. The big shift in my perspective that happened in the writing process, however, was the paramount importance of the "West" epitomized by Cincinnati.

Directing is such a crucial part of the writing process; you start directing and you see what does not work. "Oh, God, what was I thinking?" and then you can rearrange it.

My writing process is ritualized and monotonous, but there's no other way to get the job done. All other fiction writers I've met say the same thing.

The writing process was some of the most exciting and rewarding moments of my life. It felt a lot like being in a band.

I think that's one of the maybe under-discussed aspects of process - the difference between a good writing day and a bad one is the quality of the split-second decisions you made.

I just thought it was important that people knew right from the jump that I've got problems. But in all seriousness, that's a huge part of my writing process.

I start casting early in the writing process, so I can tailor the script to the gifts of the actors.

I was always writing music anyway. I just sort of fell into it. Writing for me is a therapeutic process.

I've described my usual writing process as scrambling from peak to peak on inspiration through foggy valleys of despised logic. Inspiration is better when you can get it.

I know that sounds ineffective and daunting, but it [throw hundreds of pages away] is actually my favorite part of the writing process.

The changes are part of my writing process. When I write, I imagine scenes. I write things down. I take photographs. I do some casting. I rewrite. It's a permanent making or remaking.

The interesting part about the writing process is that you can never see all the way to the end, not if something is happening over the course of a year and a half, or two years.

Pico Iyer describes his writing as "intimate letters to a stranger," and I think that is what the writing process is. It begins with a question, and then you follow this path of exploration.

I try to not be self-conscious in my writing process.

Writing anything as an expert is really poisonous to the writing process, because you lose the quality of discovery.

My writing process is very organic. I start with an idea. I have the general story arc and the cast. But then I sit down to write, and things change.

We absolutely need to reform the Congressional budget-writing process.

So much of my writing process is trying to eliminate any kind of shame or fear of the thoughts that I'm having.

Actually, I very much dislike routine. Creating music is my chaos therapy. The writing process puts me in a good place. Recording the music is the release of however I felt in the song.