1,024 Quotes About Writing-process

Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it.

I discovered writing a great story is the same high as reading one! I have been hooked ever since!

Our stories must be written, shared and communicated.

It is the trivial little facts about anything that describe it the most effectively.

A short story I have written long ago would barge into my house in the middle of the night, shake me awake and shout, 'Hey,this is no time for sleeping! You can't forget me, there's still more to write!' Impelled by that voice, I would find myself writing a novel. In this sense, too, my short stories and novels connect inside me in a very natural, organic way.

They say a picture's worth a thousand words, but with me it always ends up being well over a hundred thousand.

A shrink and a patient switching places. Who is REALLY the boss?

You can be a good painter if you study Cézanne's vision. Whoever dares to copy Van Gogh falls inevitably into the hell of imitators. For this painter didn't care about masterpieces, or even good paintings... but about what is beyond all painting, all art.

Write, what you feel about. Feel, what you have written about.