1,024 Quotes About Writing-process

Solitude makes a writer weave magic with his magic.

I hate writing, I love having written.

A book often begins with a vision, something half-seen that needs to be explored.

In my opinion, writers and illustrators are both deep thinkers.While writers use words and sentences to tell a story, illustrators nowadays use their talent and art to say the same story with their drawings and illustrations.Both skills, writing, and drawing need much intellect, patience, determination, hard work, persistence, and practice.

The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.

You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.

My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.

Where did the genius come from? Where did it go? Like allowing another lover into the house to live with you, someone you’d never met but whom you knew he loved more than you. Poetry every day. A novel every few years. Something happened in that room, despite everything; something beautiful happened. It was the only place in the world where time made things better.

Writers and other artistic personalities historically attempted to describe art, what consist of, and inform us how a person creates art. If art is so difficult to describe and quantify, why do we feel compelled to attempt to describe the ineffable? At its core, does all art represent an attempt to communicate the unsayable? Is any discussion about art absurd? Is classifying a piece of writing as literature simply another form of elitism?