The Writing Process Quotes

Begin to write, your heart flow with sacred words.

Don't judge me by my books. They're not my voices, and they were never my stories to tell.

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...

Maybe stories choose how they are told and who tells them.

Life is a rich literature. We are only writing the history of our time.

While victors may get to write history, novelists get to write/right reality.

Music is a writer's heartbeat.

Writing fluency sometimes needs an intense agony somewhere in your mind

You cannot write your character until you know how he or she thinks, until you know what their philosophy is in the world that they occupy.

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

Confession: I don't want to be one of my characters. I'm mean to them sometimes. Really mean.

Our stories must be written, shared and communicated.

Each time I discovered a potential link between one character’s story and another’s, several more connections would reveal themselves, like a beautiful, complex web spinning itself.

The more genuinely creative [the writer] is, the more he will want his work to develop in accordance with its own nature, and to stand independent of himself

Nothing listens as well as a blank page.

If you're not creating, you're disintegrating.

...if you always move in certainty, your writing will be flat - creativity is a rugged terrain...

WARNING: The production of spirit is a very delicate and dangerous procedure. It should be left to the professionals and under absolutely no circumstance be replicated.

There is nothing more valuable in the writing process than a friend to hold you accountable to your own potential.

Writing is daydreaming with ink.

You story must be best told by you. Your experience is a sacred life.

...the answer is not in the damn blank page - it's in the days or years before and you have to dredge it up - exhume the past again ...

To find the courage to keep writing after constant failure is awesomeness. Winning is eminent.

On the Writing Process:"When in doubt, take it out.,

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

Writing is an art and a skill that can be developed

Life is sacred story.

And I've learned to hit the brakes at these kinds of stop signs rather than t-boning a tanker truck filled with 200 proof mediocrity.

Write the ending first and then you'll know before the opening sentence that it's going to be a good book.

...consider yourself a functional character in someone else's novel - a background character - a person on the street - that's the perspective ...

...the most beautiful things don't always make you happy - often they make you weep...

Writing is simply another means for truth to escape, besides crawling out the hole it’s eaten in the author’s belly.

Letters orchestrated into a song of words create the symphony of a novel.

Laughing in my ear is a muse amused by how I paint her whims on paper with silly words.

A novelist is essentially a person who covers distance through his patience, slowly, like an ant. A novelist impresses us not by his demonic and romantic vision, but by his patience.

Once writing becomes an act of listening instead of an act of speech, a great deal of the ego goes out of it.

How to preside over your own internal disorder? Finding the "I" that can represent the pack of you is the first challenge of the memoirist.

If a writer starts worring about what he or she has left out or forgotten, they might not be able to write even a single line.

Discipline, not the Muse, results in productivity. If you write only when she beckons, your writing is not yours at all.

When I'm writing, I make words my b*tch. But when I'm editing, the words make me their b*tch. It all equals out in the end.

Writing is not a numbers game. You should focus more on reaching the hearts of readers and building fans more than publishing a plethora of books that no one may care about.

If your screen stays blank or your notepad empty, God cannot use your words.

Working on it.

Today’s tangents will become tomorrow’s arcs, and unforeseen connections will tie up your loose ends in a way that will make you want to slap your head and holler at your accidental brilliance.

When you hurt one of your characters and then type faster to finish a scene while saying, "I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!

It’s one of those times when the question is its own answer…. The writing is itself the solution to the inability to write!

When entering a library, I never forget to bow down!

A writer must be willing to leave oneself behind in order to explore new territories of the mind and unearth primordial truths that startle and frighten us.

I could never stand to be a writer. Not a real writer. It's entirely too awful, having thoughts that refuse to become sentences.

When you’re speaking in the truest, most intimate voice about your life, you are speaking with the universal voice.