1,024 Quotes About Writing-process

A writer turns to paper to stem a burble of pain, shut the door on sadness, and allow the mind to release unsavory obsessions.

We walk on earth and exist in Hilbert space. We live in a world of both shade and sunlight. How we respond to darkness and lightness depends up the chemical heliotropism of the self.

Writing a long series of essays represents grafting the shoots from all the discordant elements of a person’s personality together into a unique, progressively created organism. Joining the vascular tissue of the conscious mind with the vaporous mist of the personal unconscious represents an act of asexual reproduction of a revised self through artistic inosculation.

Evocative memories seared onto the writer’s unconscious mind forms the essential cadence that brokers a writer’s telltale, shadowy light. Floundering in the commodious darkness, the writer’s seeks to discover a ray of lightness that inhabits the darkest recesses of their fitful humanity.

Life is like a long walk, an extended mediation, where a person discovers the difference between living with attention and awareness and simply passing through the world in a zombie state, ignorant of what is beautiful, true, and virtuous.

The truly exhausting, gruesome, and lurid experiences in life are mesmerizing.

All art including essayistic writing is essentially historical. A writer paints a story with a palette drawn from the well of personal experience and the product of their dream works. A writer’s sense of empathy, philosophy, and accessibility springs from the writer’s clipboard of inchoate childhood experiences bookend with teenage and adulthood’s adventures, chores, mishaps, comedic events, and tragedies.

Writing reveals part of the author, customarily the fragment that the writer carefully chooses to hide from people closest to them. Writers place on paper their secret thoughts, cryptic opinions, enigmatic judgments, and uncensored criticisms of themselves.

Being a self-employed means you work 12 hours a day for yourself so you don't have to work 8 hours a day for someone else.