1,024 Quotes About Writing-process

Writing well is more than mechanics, but it is not less.

...there is a myth called objective reality - we think an impersonal world exists apart from us - it doesn't - it needs us to be ...

If a writer starts worring about what he or she has left out or forgotten, they might not be able to write even a single line.

Discipline, not the Muse, results in productivity. If you write only when she beckons, your writing is not yours at all.

Writing to me is like hitting the herb. No problems, Mon. No worries.

Great poetry is pulled from a magic hat.

Our lives hang on narrative thread. . . Our world is shaped by the stories we tell ourselves -- what we believe about our lives and what we hold to be true about our world.

Well, writing novels is incredibly simple: an author sits down…and writes.Granted, most writers I know are a bit strange.Some, downright weird.But then again, you’d have to be.To spend hundreds and hundreds of hours sitting in front of a computer screen staring at lines of information is pretty tedious. More like a computer programmer. And no matter how cool the Matrix made looking at code seem, computer programmers are even weirder than authors.

What are we to do in this time? How do we function? How do we not completely lose it? I choose to use my #pen to cut open my shell to release the pus of pain and trauma and loss mixed with sludge-like #ash.