Writing Process Quotes
When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn't feel laboring, that's usually a good sign for me.
I work with pen and paper. That's my favorite way to write. I love the way the ink sinks into the wood, soaks into the wood pulp. There's something about that process that's so organic.
If the right thing came along, I would absolutely direct something I did not write because I love the process so much, but we'll see. I'm taking it day by day.
The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different.
I enjoy the process of writing collaboration so there's some stuff that already that may happen and then some stuff that I'm initiating that I may write on my own.
You have to write or else the auditioning process becomes so grueling because it's so hard to work.
My father always told me I should be a writer, and I found I loved writing my autobiography; writing is such an interesting process.
In my own writing, I've mostly abandoned end-rhyme, but wordplay is still a huge part of my process.
Usually form seems to find me in the process of writing a poem, though I have nothing against starting out with the form.
As a writer, I write to see. If I knew how it would end, I wouldn't write. It's a process of discovery.
I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery.
Every kind of book I've written has been written in a different way. There has not been any set time for writing, any set way, I haven't re-invented the process every time but I almost have.
Thinking is creating with God, as thinking is writing with the ready writer; and worlds are only leaves turned over in the process of composition, about his throne.
I'm not much interested in prizes, whether from the Arab world or from the Western world. Writing is a very difficult process and I want to continue my work.
So, it's a continual process of trial and error and then I find things and I throw it out and start again, but I keep writing it over again.
I've often heard academics disparage non-academic writing in terms that suggest it could be a negative in the tenure process, irrespective of the quality of academic work under review.
For me, the process of writing a novel happens mostly in your head before you actually start writing.
I tend to like order in almost every other aspect of my life, but for me, the process of writing is really chaotic and decadent and indulgent.
Shakespeare teaches you how to act. You come out of this process as a better actor. It's just the nature of the words he writes.
I enjoy the process of writing. The torment comes in getting my bottom on the chair and in front of the typewriter.
The directing process is often a continuation of the writing. This is just a different skill-set.
I don't see myself directing things I don't write because, to me, directing was just an extension of the writing process.
I grew up on film sets but more around the process of making films. I saw a lot of the editing process and the writing process, which takes years. That really affected me growing up, that side of it.
The writing begins when you've finished. Only then do you know what you're trying to say.
The time to being writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say.
I gradually realized that I was seeing another example of creative ebb, another step by another art on the road that may indeed end in extinction.
I think you will find that, if you continue to write fiction, every character you create is partly you.
It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg adress was so short. The laws of prose writing are immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics. Fr letter to Maxwell Perkins 1945
I'm writing a book. I'm almost finished. I numbered the pages. Now all I have to do is fill them in.
You don't write because you want to say something. You write because you have something to say.
Sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person-and write to that one.
When the work is the best work, it's more like being a secretary than it is a creative person, you just sort of take the stuff down.
Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.
When you write, you want to get rid of the world, do you not? Of course you do. When you're writing, you're creating your own worlds.
When you are writing, you must treat it as the most important thing in the world, even when you know it is not. This helps you take the job seriously and do your best on everything you write.
I've discovered that sometimes writing badly can eventually lead to something better. Not writing at all leads to nothing.
The challenge of the writer is to transform—artistically and imaginatively—a unique personal experience into a universal, meaningful story.
There's nothing more intoxicating than creating something from nothing. Creating something from yourself." Professor Piper
The writer’s life requires courage, patience, empathy, openness. It requires the ability to be alone with oneself. Gentle with oneself. To be disciplined, and at the same time, take risks.
Writing takes a pen, a sheet of paper and, to start with, just the shadow of an idea.
Once writing becomes an act of listening instead of an act of speech, a great deal of the ego goes out of it.
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.
