1,024 Quotes About Writing-process

People should know better than to be an ass in front of writers. We immortalize things. Lots of things. And we take liberties with character descriptions.

About play: Play is an important part of finding voice, because it allows us to try on new selves, like costumes, with sanctuary. We can pretend to be, pretend to write as if, without committing. And often play allows us to discover our authentic self. [p. 48]

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

She wants me to ruin her And my pen makes her into poetry!

In the space of solitude, a writer attempts to remember how they became whom they are but nobody’s memory is up to this demanding task. No matter how much a person harrows the fertile lanes of memory, some memories are lost by the passage of time, psychological defense mechanisms screen other memories from detection, the ephemeral character of other memories are invariably to elusive to arrest with reciprocal language.

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

I’m always pouring myself out, making oceans with my mouth, working to get this oppressed emotion out of me.

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

I don't write to chase away my demons ~I wield my pen as a weapon...calling those bastards to war!