1,024 Quotes About Writing-process

The Throes of Poetry - Hymns formed from groans of acquaintance, its rhythm weaving between tranquility, compassions, and peril - like bare feet stomping on broken glass - bleeds, recoils, then steps again.

I wish my brain had an off switch. Maybe that way I could get some sleep.

Good fiction writers have an instinctive understanding of human nature. That's what makes stories and characters captivating. Good spiritual writers share what they sincerely practice themselves.

Writing is the spectrum through which the chaos of life can be seen, studied and understood.

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.

Experience is the catalyst for all great stories.

The thing I've learned is that thinking is not writing.

I often struggle with every word I try to put on paper: there is always a voice within me screaming, ‘It is all useless! The world has gone totally deaf and blind!’But then another voice comes: ‘Sitting in a dark corner and closing your door and windows is also useless!’ And so, until the world decides to open its ears and its eyes, do I have any choice but to bleed on the endless snows of my blank pages?

If I become like others, I will lose my ability to be unique. The lesson I learned to Create like you, Write like you and most of all don't be defined by others. To me, you will get lost in the crowd. Riddle me weird and I graciously accept. Yet, I choose to forever and day to stand out. -Tamyara Brown