1,024 Quotes About Writing-process

You know you are a writer when characters inside your brain keep demanding, 'This is my story! Now tell it or I will never leave you alone!

Getting started on writing a book isn't as hard as it sounds. You don't need a plan and an outline. In fact, all you need are two things: time and one idea.

There's still too much energy leftover at this tomb-desk, on Broadway, when I am semi-asleep at night in our bedroom, struggling to get a good night's rest. There's an overflow of loin energy. It spills out from my pores as if I were a cracked drum of reacting chemicals. I need to work to expend this excess energy in words, stories and books....My mind is a body that's a mind.

We can create transcending stories for readers and for us. Creativity is a double edge sword, which can kill the writer.

Books are like rivers, meandering this way and that, but taking us on a steady, flowing course to somewhere different.

The only difference between writers and people who don't write is that writers aren't afraid to display their demons.

It's better to be remembered for what you said, not what you earned.

Someone asked me, 'How do you write a book?' I said, 'I live with a pen in one hand.

Fiction is a careful combination of observation, inspiration, and imagination.