1,024 Quotes About Writing-process

Writing is a virus once caught never to be cured.

There are two reasons I'm a writer. The first is that I have stories inside me. The second is that I'm in love with words and am obsessed with finding better ways of saying things.

Do you ever think about writing one more Narnian chronicle? Just one more? Because you know it will sell?""I think it's best to put an end to it when the readers are clamouring for more rather than when they're weary of the whole everlasting thing. There will be seven of them published in seven years. Sometimes you must know when it is enough.

If writing hurts you're doing it right.

I think you often have that sense when you write-that if you can spot something in yourself and set it down on paper, you're free of it. And you're not, of course; you've just managed to set it down on paper, that's all.

Emerson is always interested both in what his sentences are aiming for and in the mechanics of the sentences themselves. The words of even the best advice are lifeless unless they have some yeast, some energy in them to get up off the page into the mind

I write 
to resolve the tensions
 my sensible soul has created
 from so much uncertainty & soothe those
 who can relate to
 my hopes, my fears, and my dreams.#MyMissionStatement

Whoever wrote the column was careful in the wording of it.""Obviously Lord Lambert wrote it," Pandora said."I wouldn't be so sure," Helen commented thoughtfully. "It doesn't have the tone of a young person. The manner is scolding... lecturing... not unlike a disapproving parent.""Or chaperone," Pandora added, grinning at Lady Berwick, who gave her an admonishing glance.

It is impossible for me to be in time, with all its distractions and demands, and think, listen, and write coherently. When I say I need to find time to write, I really mean I need to find nevertime.