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  • Writing Process Quote #1

    All good writers write [terrible first drafts.] This is how they end up with good second drafts and terrific third drafts. . . I know some very great writers, writers you love who write beautifully and have made a great deal of money, and not one of them sits down routinely feeling wildly enthusiastic and confident. Not one of them writes elegant first drafts. All right, one of them does, but we do not like her very much. We do not think that she has a rich inner life or that God likes her or can even stand her. (Although when I mentioned this to my priest friend Tom, he said you can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

    Anne Lamott

  • Writing Process Quote #2

    All kinds of mysterious phenomena exist in this world, but answers to most of them have come with advances in scientific knowledge. Love is the sole holdout-nothing can explain it. A Chinese writer by the name of Ah Cheng wrote that love is just a chemical reaction, an unconventional point of view that seemed quite fresh at the time. But if love can be controlled and initiated by means of chemistry, then novelists would be out of a job. So while he may have had his finger on the truth, I'll remain a member of the loyal opposition.

    Mo Yan

  • Writing Process Quote #3

    All morning I lay down sentences, erase them, and try new ones. Soon enough, when things go well, the world around me dwindles: the sky out the window, the furious calm of the big umbrella pine ten feet away, the smell of dust falling onto the hot bulb in the lamp. That's the miracle of writing, the place you try to find--when the room, your body, and even time itself cooperate in a vanishing act.

    Anthony Doerr

  • Writing Process Quote #4

    All the best writers take risks, offend people often and say fuck you to the critics.

    Carla H. Krueger

  • Writing Process Quote #5

    Allen Ginsberg instructs: First thought, best thought. Oh, to have my every spontaneous thought count as poetry! No draft after draft like a draft horse.

    Clayton Eshleman, laughing, said, 'First thought best thought' is not 'First word best word ' Ginsberg does rewrite. I'm sure he does.

    Maxine Hong Kingston

  • Writing Process Quote #6

    Also, I do seem attracted to trash, as if the clue--the clue--lies there. I'm always ferreting out elliptical points, odd angles. What I write doesn't make a whole lot of sense. There is fun and religion and psychotic horror strewn about like a bunch of hats. Also, there is a social or sociological drift--rather than toward the hard sciences, the overall impression is childish but interesting.

    Philip K. Dick

  • Writing Process Quote #7

    Always being myself and my salve, which is life. I’m not lonely, if that’s what it seems like. Always writing things down.

    Chris Campanioni

  • Writing Process Quote #8

    Always remember that writing is an alliance between author and reader. With every line we put down on the page, we need to leave room for the reader's imagination and intellect.

    Hal Zina Bennett

  • Writing Process Quote #9

    An opportunity lost may have motivated us to find a satisfying alternative. Adversity or suffering may have taught us certain important skills. Some writers have felt new appreciation for their lives after surviving a serious illness or disability. A fortunate outcome does not invalidate the unfortunate aspect.

    Nan Merrick Phifer

  • Writing Process Quote #10

    And as your writing evolves, what you need and get from it evolves.

    Darynda Jones

  • Writing Process Quote #11

    And doesn't a writer do the same thing? Isn't she knitting together scraps of dreams? She hunts down the most vivid details and links them in sequences that will let a reader see, smell, and hear a world that seems complete in itself; she builds a stage set and painstakingly hides all the struts and wires and nail holes, then stands back and hopes whoever might come to see it will believe.

    Anthony Doerr

  • Writing Process Quote #12

    And I've learned to hit the brakes at these kinds of stop signs rather than t-boning a tanker truck filled with 200 proof mediocrity.

    Benjamin Kane Ethridge

  • Writing Process Quote #13

    And now, I have another good reason to speed up my baby narratives to make my author's profile appear more respectable.

    Armineonila M.

  • Writing Process Quote #14

    And yet, for a writer of fiction, part of the heart remains that of a stranger, for what we are trying to do is to understand those others who are our fictional characters, somehow to gain entrance to their minds and feelings, to respect them for themselves as human individuals, and to portray them as truly as we can. The whole process of fiction is a mysterious one, and a writer, however experienced, remains in some ways a perpetual amateur, or perhaps a perpetual traveller, an explorer of those inner territories, those strange lands of the heart and spirit.

    Margaret Laurence

  • Writing Process Quote #15

    Any magazine-cover hack can splash paint around wildly and call it a nightmare, or a witches sabbath or a portrait of the devil; but only a great painter can make such a thing really scare or ring true. That's because only a real artist knows the anatomy of the terrible, or the physiology of fear.

    H.P. Lovecraft

  • Writing Process Quote #16

    Art is the overflow of emotion into action.

    Brian Raif

  • Writing Process Quote #17

    As a writer, the main skill you need is curiosity. As a reader, the main tool you need is open-mindedness.

    Gloria D. Gonsalves

  • Writing Process Quote #18

    As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granaries: they are always ready to enlarge their store.

    William H. Gass

  • Writing Process Quote #19

    As I suspect is true of many who write for a living, as I write I think about all sorts of things. I don't necessarily write down what I'm thinking; it's just that as I write I think about things. As I write, I arrange my thoughts. And rewriting and revising takes my thinking down even deeper paths.

    Haruki Murakami

  • Writing Process Quote #20

    At first the creative mind submits to its entry into the symbolic register and gets itself structured like everyone else. Then he balks at a fateful moment which becomes a turning point in the history of his mental growth. From the entry into the imaginary order where he acknowledges his ego and then to the symbolic order where he recognizes his place in the society and finally in his de-symbolization or a refusal to obey the Law that is the rules of the world of symbols, a creative genius is born.

    Anuradha Bhattacharyya

  • Writing Process Quote #21

    At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that — the young man or the young woman must possess or teach himself, train himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try and to try until it comes right. He must train himself in ruthless intolerance. That is, to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph. The most important thing is insight, that is ... curiosity to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does. And if you have that, then I don't think the talent makes much difference, whether you've got that or not.

    [Press conference, University of Virginia, May 20, 1957]

    William Faulkner

  • Writing Process Quote #22

    Bagiku, sehari tanpa menulis adalah sehari hilang, terbuang.

    Howard Fast

  • Writing Process Quote #23

    Bastam poucas palavras para escrever uma história e apenas uma pessoa para a ler.

    Fernando Guerreiro

  • Writing Process Quote #24

    Because.
    Everything
    worth anything
    takes time.

    Christy Hall

  • Writing Process Quote #25

    Before the magisterial mess of Trevor Thomas's house, the orderly houses that most of us live in seem meagre and lifeless -- as, in the same way, the narratives called biographies pale and shrink in the face of the disorderly actuality that is a life. The house also stirred my imagination as a metaphor for the problem of writing. Each person who sits down to write faces not a blank page but his own overfilled mind. The problem is to clear out most of what is in it . . . The goal is to make a space where a few ideas and images and feelings may be so arranged that a reader will want to linger awhile among them, rather than to flee, as I wanted to flee from Thomas's house.

    Janet Malcolm

  • Writing Process Quote #26

    Begin at the beginning as you understood it, proceed through the middle, continue to the end, and then stop, said Master Li, and he sauntered out to get drunk....

    Barry Hughart

  • Writing Process Quote #27

    Book:Sharing of life and experiences with other people.This is lifetime notes for all generations.

    Lailah Gifty Akita

  • Writing Process Quote #28

    Books are like rivers, meandering this way and that, but taking us on a steady, flowing course to somewhere different.

    Carla H. Krueger

  • Writing Process Quote #29

    Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.

    Dave Eggers

  • Writing Process Quote #30

    Books most certainly don't write themselves, but life does. When in doubt about what to write, use your own life.

    Solomon Woytowich

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