1,024 Quotes About Writing-process

Story seems to say that everything happens for a reason and I want to say, No, it doesn’t.

If you have a story inside you but don't know where to start, look within and write from the heart, for the heart will never steer you wrong.

Don't think too much. There'll be time to think later. Analysis won't help. You're chiseling now. You're passing your hands over the wood. Now the page is no longer blank. There's something there. It isn't your business yet to know whether it's going to be prize-worthy someday, or whether it will gather dust in a drawer. Now you've carved the tree. You've chiseled the marbled. You've begun.

I have written until I fell asleep with my computer on my lap. That can't be normal.

Life baffles me most days. Maybe that's why I write. To try and make sense of it all.

Writing, when it springs from within, is like giving birth, and the child is covered in mucus

They chased money, fast cars, and business empires.And all I ever wanted was to stare at the stars in the night and write poetry!

The process of self-invention is never-ending; writer, like children, are always growing into their gifts. (Susan Larson in a "Times-Picayune" book review.

...if you always move in certainty, your writing will be flat - creativity is a rugged terrain...