1,024 Quotes About Writing-process

It didn't take inspiration to dredge up a list of plot points, but to find that moment — the perfect moment that defined a book, that made it come alive as something greater then the sum of its words — that required an alchemy you couldn't fake.

Like with many jobs, the key to writing is to turn up.

Will working impulsively in velvet-lined ravines under tonight’s harvest moon yield any hearty hale to conciliate the ambitious rumblings of tomorrow?

Writing characters is like raising kids, only more work—because you have to do everything for them.

I usually write with a small audience in mind. This allows me to be intimate, purposeful and original.

No one knows why we do it and when we've done it rarely does anyone want it. Yet still we do it. That's what being a writer is.

There are two types of writers, those who write to live, and those who live to write.

It's not so much about the tools for writing, it's developing the habit of writing that matters.

In telling our story, we develop an internal voice, which vocalization can help us rise or keep us down. An internal voice that constantly speaks to a person in an uplifting and reassuring manner is a rare plum.