1,024 Quotes About Writing-process

No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it

Anyone who says writing is easy isn't doing it right.

You can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.

If you find it interesting enough to write, someone will find it interesting enough to read.

It's a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn't even know you were aiming for.

A writer = a worried person picking up a pen, in the face of death, writing to unlimited strangers to say, “Look!

The reader should be able to imagine himself inhabiting the house, walking the streets, sitting by the river. All the writer needs to achieve this isthe real expression of his tangible imaginations on a piece of paper.

No blanks. The universe makes love to my mind and gives birth to poetry every single time.

We can’t choose our poetic fathers any more than our biological ones — but we can choose how to come to terms with them.