1,024 Quotes About Writing-process

Critical writing is one way to encounter reality by penetrating our cherished illusions. Writing strips away falsities and enables us to perceive our essential nature under a new spotlight.

I wanted to write enormous naturalistic novels with unhappy endings, full of detailed descriptions and arresting similes, and also full of purple passages in which words were used partly for the sake of their own sound.

Writing is a highly encoded form of communication that takes place from one mind to another.

I write to breathe and I breathe to write.

Bandwagon jumping is great if you’re living in prohibition era America and trying to steal some moonshine, but if you’re doing it to get on board with what’s currently popular you’ll probably end up with no shine, much less the moon.

Writing is the product of calculated observation, active interrogation, and intensive investigation of the intuitive self, which process helps us gain or reclaim our equilibrium.

When you work on a book and you have planned everything out and you are putting flesh to an idea and a surmise that before was mainly bones something funny happens. Your brain goes into an altered state where the words you write are not quite the words you want but rather the words dictated by the task at hand.

An expedition searching for personal transformation commences with the first stroke of the pen, and continues thereafter one incisive word at a time.

All writers trammeling the ground of self-examining must explore their physical and mental constrictions and determine what awaits them, if anything at all, after the cinereous body returns to dust. Writing does not demand that one prefer death to life, but any writer seeking enlightenment might elect to assess the possibility of death releasing them from the conscripts of crippling dissatisfaction with their present way of living.