1,024 Quotes About Writing-process

There's nothing more intoxicating than creating something from nothing. Creating something from yourself." Professor Piper

There are three secrets to writing a novel. Unfortunately nobody knows what they are.

Writing is like gardening. Planting, watering, and weeding are not enough. You have to prune if you want growth.

Should an unpublished writer spend money for an editor? I did my own due diligence and searched for ones that edited many books in my genre (found one through my writers group), and paid each one handsomely. It was well worth it. Got me traditionally published, each time.

I’m still in bed writing this, lying on my back like an omelette in a pan.

The art of writing involves making as many cups of tea as you can in the time available for writing. Then adding extra time for writing...

Writing starts with living.

The art of writing: Putting one word in front of the other, and following your 'noise'.

Writing is emblematic art form, which means that the book will never be any greater than the writer’s ability to perceive, classify, and describe the external world, think abstractedly, and organize the material that structures the content of their mind.