1,024 Quotes About Writing-process

Writers, similar to painters, use both darkness and lightness, to create a telling canvass sharing with future generations their struggles realizing the fundamental value of human existence. Duplicating the tried and true techniques of a portrait painter, I commence this portrayal of a deeply conflicted human being with a wash of black, because as Leonardo Da Vinci noted, nature shrouds all things in dark except as exposed by rays of light.

Sometimes writing is just rubbing words together long enough to make a fire.

How to preside over your own internal disorder? Finding the "I" that can represent the pack of you is the first challenge of the memoirist.

The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us regain our equilibrium.

The pressure disappeared with the first word he put on paper. He thought--while his hand moved rapidly--what a power there was in words; later, for those who heard them, but first for the one who found them; a healing power, a solution, like the breaking of a barrier. He thought, perhaps the basic secret the scientists have not discovered, the first fount of life, is that which happens when a thought takes shape in words.

Je choisis des mots simples et concrets... J'essaie de faire des phrases courtes et j'évite les inversions autant que possible. Je ne mets pas un mot très bref à côté d'un mot de plusieurs syllables... Si un mot finit par une consonne, je lui trouve un compagnon qui commence par une voyelle. Et je lis mon texte à voix haute pour entendre comment ça sonne.

...the secret to writing is to get your own pain - shout it out till it hurts your throat - weep it into your pillow - then write it down ...

You write what you know, and I know rock and roll.

Writing is that strange calling which weighs so heavily on the soul yet brings much delight in its achievement.