1,024 Quotes About Writing-process

When you write a manuscript, it feels like being in a relationship with someone. You'll hate it, get bored with it, be pissed of, like you just want to break up. But, just like any relationship, you will fall in love again and again, like you don't want to lose it.

Passionate attraction to someone of the opposite sex will make a hero or a fool of a novelist each time.

The gift of writing; natural flow of thoughts from the deepest heart.

Most people assume I write at night because of the kind of books I write, but I can shut out the light with my mind.

..here's the editor's prescription, writer: 1000 words daily until next checkup.

There is always, always, always something to write about.

Writers are always alone, even in a room bursting with noises of the familiar.

When I write, I write obsessively. I try to pace myself, but some fires are too hot to put out.

Every word I write is another stroke that takes me to the shore of a completed book.