1,024 Quotes About Writing-process

Making a movie is like building a watch because a watch is so small and you only can fit so many things inside it that all the pieces really do need to work together.

It takes three or four years before the present day sinks in to you as a novelist. It has not just to be accepted in the mind but travel down your spine and fill your body and you can’t respond immediately to immediate events, there is this incubation period.Source: http://www.euronews.com/2013/06/25/ma...

No matter how many times you stir up a steaming pile of crap, it’s still just a steaming pile of crap.

I think the secret of memoirs is keeping those parts of yourself off the page, which makes what you do share more valuable.

We don't turn to story to escape reality. We turn to story to navigate reality.

Without language we have no past, the present is unquantifiable, and we lack a means to recognize and express the paradoxical future challenges of humanity. In absence of a shared language, we cannot understand prior generation’s conflicts, desires, and achievements, nor can we communicate with future generations our essential values and the wisdom we garner through undergoing our own socioeconomic crises

When writing a personal story of what it means to be alive, a person is simply replicating on paper the universal story that all human beings share.

As a writer, the main skill you need is curiosity. As a reader, the main tool you need is open-mindedness.

I like to think I’ve written something worth reading when I cry the tears of the characters