1,024 Quotes About Writing-process

I think if you want to make a recipe for making a writer, have them feel a little out of place everywhere, have them be an observer kind of all the time.

Sometimes when I prepare to write, I feel the same sensation wash over me as if my toes were curling over the brink of a high cliff, my gaze peering downward into a dark pond, and I anxiously wonder, will the water prove deep enough? Will my words be satisfactory?

Don't judge me by my books. They're not my voices, and they were never my stories to tell.

She was strangely unaware that she could look and see freshly for herself, as she wrote, without primary regard for what had been said before.

Writing is like daydreaming through your fingers.

What is it about us lady authors and our fascination for the exclamation mark?

First time I ever put pen to paper, I had one goal – to build something no one had ever thought of before.

Isn't the writing of good prose an emotional excitement?""Yes, of course it is. At least, when you get the thing dead right and know it's dead right, there's no excitement like it. It's marvelous. It makes you feel like God on the Seventh Day – for a bit, anyhow.

He has always believed that he never wrote songs anyway, he just copied down songs that already existed somewhere in his mind.