1,024 Quotes About Writing-process

Any magazine-cover hack can splash paint around wildly and call it a nightmare, or a witches sabbath or a portrait of the devil; but only a great painter can make such a thing really scare or ring true. That's because only a real artist knows the anatomy of the terrible, or the physiology of fear.

If typos are God's way of keeping a writer humble, plot holes certainly keeps one on their knees.

Writing is an admixture of exposition, introspection, observation, deliberation, rumination, reflection, clarification, meditation, and expression. Perhaps no other activity offers a thoughtful person with as precise a means to inspect and marshal together their fragmented thoughts than writing.

Do I not have a plot to my life? for I am unexpectedly fragmentary.

How the story will end, no one knows? We can only envisage.

I look out my window a lot.​It’s just one of those things that keeps me grounded in this weird, one-with-nature kind of way. I hate curtains. They only gather dust. And I hate alarms even more. I enjoy the natural light to whisper across my face in the morning with gentle fingers, not some man-made sound that jars me into life with a harsh slap. It is the quiet moments of the morning that I savor most, in bed, looking out my window. It’s when I write my best work.

Every book has its ancestors

Writing is Art. There are no good or bad writers.

Writing is exposing yourself to strangers