1,024 Quotes About Writing-process

It is not the quantity of publications, but their quality and the effects they have on the real world outside of academia’s ivory tower is what determines whether we shall live way after we exit this world, or perish while still at 30!

I used to think that writing is written to be read; it isn't. Writing is written to be written.

For example, instead of saying that it was a rainy night, you can say, “At night she could see from her window that the postcard-perfect sky from an hour ago had turned to a dark abyss filled with tar-black clouds that had just begun to weep heavily, as though completely devoid of any hope in the humankind beneath.

Writer's don't write, they're written through.

Writing, for me, is the easiest thing in the world to do. Just kidding!

I don't imagine book elitists as my audience when writing. I dream about teachers, morticians and garbage men instead.

The essay becomes an exercise in the meaning and value of watching a writer conquer their own sense of threat to deliver themself of their wisdom.

Personal essay writing is analogous to undertaking a vision quest, a potential turning point in life taken to discover intimate personal truths, form complex abstract thoughts, and ascertain the intended spiritual direction of a person’s life.

The first line of a novel is the pinhead upon which the great structure will stand or fall.