1,024 Quotes About Writing-process

I don't fire up the prose. I just tell it straight and don't fool around with it.

Things happen for a reason. I believe that. For instance, I masturbated moments ago and now I’m searching for a reason…beyond the obvious.

From writing in a diary and trying hard to hide it, to writing on public domains, we grew up so fast!

1. Write like you’ll live forever — fear is a bad editor.2. Write like you’ll croak today — death is the best editor.3. Fooling others is fun. Fooling yourself is a lethal mistake.4. Pick one — fame or delight.5. The archer knows the target. The poet knows the wastebasket.6. Cunning and excess are your friends.7. TV and liquor are your enemies.8. Everything eternal happens in a spare room at 3 a.m.9. You’re done when the crows sing.

I write for strength, to smile, to breathe life into dreams. Connect with love, understand the villain and most of all let go of the pain dwelling inside of me.-Tamyara Brown

I thank everybody in this book for coming. -A.W., AUTHOR AND MEDIUM

Creative writing performs many functions. To the readers, it enlightens, enriches, entertains and informs. To the writer, creative writing is rhapsodic.

I believed that I could control any story I told. If something happened, I could write about it, own it, resolve it. Simple. You could afford to be interesting, if you could pin everything to the page afterward.

The writing life is mostly about stamina. To get to the finishing line requires the writing to become more interesting than everyday life...