1,024 Quotes About Writing-process

Beautiful prose is a floundering fish if it doesn't have a story to swim in.

Just like any other art piece, writing is subjective.

The success of any endeavour is related to the depth of the emotional and intellectual connection you have with it. Very often, writers select topics to write about that diverge from what interests them. Or to talk about subjects of which they’re not firmly grounded – probably driven by some egoistic motives. What ends up happening to them is that they do not create decent work.

If you are to write the truth, you must go beneath the surface into deeper, often darker waters where the light wavers and breathing is a matter of mindfulness.

You write. That's the hard bit that nobody sees.

Inherited voice: Our inherited voice is handed down with the family furniture. [p 39]

Though they're my currency, words are often a frustratingly inadequate tool; language a hopelessly flawed instrument. Some things can never truly be articulated.

It takes a writer many lifetimes to story a book.

You need to embrace your process