1,024 Quotes About Writing-process

Every writer or wanna-be writer has ideas for books. The problem isn't finding an idea, it's choosing one

Letters orchestrated into a song of words create the symphony of a novel.

When I'm writing a story, I use words to transform the surrounding scene into something more natural for me. In other words, I reconstruct it. That way, I can confirm without a doubt that this person known as 'me' exists in the world.

No matter how clear the relationships of things might become in the forest of story, there was never a clear-cut solution.

I realized that my life of late had consisted of far too much dialogue and not enough exposition. I imagined an angry, bespectacled English teacher slashing his pen through the transcript of my life, wondering how someone could possibly say so much and think so little.

Writing is the thing that props me up.

To make the writing process easier for you, do more research. The more information you have about the topic you chose to write about, the more effective, easier and practical writing experience you will have, and the better reading material readers will get.

Writing history is like holding a conversation across the ages, responding to people long gone and posing questions to individuals yet born.

I long for some connection, to the real and those who love them, and hope that my fiction can reach beyond the veil, that I might touch someone and make them feel something…or something.