Top 1200 Writing Process Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

If you want to be a writer, you must be in love with the process of writing, whether you achieve financial success or not.

Writing the 'Crossfire' series is deeply personal for me, and I love the whole process of it.

I do not believe that it is necessarily the duty of the writer to give a voice to his community. If a writer is true to his vocation, to his or her vocation, the very process of creativity enlarges these human horizons. It provides insights, even when you're not writing, when your writing's not dealing with a concrete political situation.

Well, it's not all the same, but there are a lot of parallels. I'm not sure how to answer [on psychology background], but I think when I was studying psychology I had a professor and a friend who would talk about "process" all the time. Your process, his process, the group's process. There's some carryover from that discussion to my creative work.

My writing is inspired by just about everything, yet I am unaware of so much of the process.

The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life.

Translation is harder, believe it or not. You do have to come up with a story, and actually I'm mystified by that process. I don't exactly know how the story just comes, but it does. But in writing a story that you're inventing, versus writing a story that somebody else has made up - there's a world of difference. In translation you have to get it right, you have to be precise in what you're doing.

Teach your students real-world writing purposes, add a teacher who models his or her struggles with the writing process, throw in lots of real-world mentor texts for students to emulate, and give our kids the time necessary to enable them to stretch as writers.

I'll tell you what I was most surprised to discover about my writing process, and that is that I never know what I'm doing.

I haven't had writer's block. I think it's because my process involves writing very badly.

I write wherever I am. It helps that the writing process, for me, is a lone-wolf mission.

Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.

Writing is a way of drifting within my own mind: almost a solitary process, so to speak.

I'm always writing. A friend of mine once said, 'You avoid re-writing by writing.' Which is kind of a good point, because re-writing seems to be mostly about craft, and writing is just, like, getting out your passion on a piece of paper.

The writing and recording process is what I enjoy, it allows me to be creative and work with different artists and producers.

The conclusion I came to was that even if I couldn't sell books, I still liked the process of writing.

I write every day. I'm always in the process of writing my last book, until the next one.

The whole process of writing a novel is having this great, beautiful idea and then spoiling it.

We need to write because so many of our stories are not being heard. Where could they be heard in this era of fear and media monopolies? Writing allows us to transform what has happened to us and to fight back against what's hurting us. While not everyone is an author, everyone is a writer and I think that the process of writing is deeply spiritual and liberatory.

I love, love writing about Los Angeles. I love exploring every part of it. And I find, rather than a burden, it's actually one of the most enjoyable parts of the writing process for me. I love everything about L.A. Okay, not the traffic. But I love the way it looks. I love the geography. I love the diversity.

Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing - none of that is writing. Writing is writing. Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

The process of writing a poem represents work done on the self of the poet, in order to make form.

Generally I start writing when I have even the smallest idea of how a book is going to go, because the physical process of writing itself keeps the mind active and focused on the job at hand. Usually I write in about 5 drafts, but that simply means there are 5 definite times when I go in a linear fashion from the beginning to the end of the book.

A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.

I sometimes start keeping a journal about the writing process itself. Particularly when I get the ideas, and I am trying to brood over the chaos phase. In writing a novel, you really have to brood over a lot of chaos of ideas and possibilities.

The writing process really became natural when it was real and from my heart, and I was exposed.

Writing, like any art, is a continuing process of discovering the infinite possibilities of Life.

Editing feels almost like sculpting or a form of continuing the writing process.

Writing a Metallica song is a journey and a process, and it takes time, but that's what's special about it.

I try to listen to a lot of music when I'm in the mixing process of a record, when I'm in post-production and trying to get everything to sound a certain way. During the writing process, I tend not to listen to too much music. I obviously wear a lot of influences on my sleeve, but if I was listening to too many records, I would turn into too much of a monkey.

I start casting early in the writing process, so I can tailor the script to the gifts of the actors.

The directing process is often a continuation of the writing. This is just a different skill-set.

I wasn't letting people in with the music writing process, and for a long time, I thought I was hard to work with.

The writing process for me is pretty much always the same - it's a solitary experience.

The process of writing is a little like madness, a kind of possession not altogether benign.

The writing process is more... it becomes a case of more like a diary for me. I mean, I write stuff down all day whenever I'm experiencing something that I think would be important for me to look at later on. You know, whether it be for writing lyrics or just for a memory, like, 'Oh, my gosh, I can't believe I was feeling that way at that time'.

Now, the process of writing poetry is very messy. Not systematic, never quite the same

Accepting that part of the process of writing is deleting a lot of what you write is soothing, at least to me.

The biggest challenge in the research process is to let go, to stop, to say enough, and then to reduce all of that beloved labor down to a few succinct paragraphs that shape the background to your narrative. I love research - that's all the fun, especially in the field. To write, however, is to suffer, and my pieces usually come in thousands of words over the assigned length. That's a serious flaw in my writing process - shaping and disciplining the footlockers of material one has so happily gathered.

I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process.

As for my writing process, there is one truth I have discovered after writing some twenty-plus books: Not every book is the same, but the middle of every book is where I really begin to question my choice of vocations. The beginning and end is usually fairly clear to me, but that middle just sucks the life right out of me.

Writing poetry is a process of discovery...you can smell the poem before you see it....Like some animal.

What's important in the filmmaking process has stayed the same. Keep it small, keep it personal, keep it authentic, work with people you like and trust. That process is much longer than the filmmaking process. The development process is a long one, so try and say something of importance.

One of the problems of writing is that anyone who commits themselves to that process has to believe that they're good.

I like the process of writing songs. It makes me feel good.

For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.

When you're writing for a movie, you're trying to capture the emotion of a scene. I find it a fascinating process.

Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.

While writing is a mystical process, it's also work. If you show up to work five days in a row, nobody's going to pat you on the back - everyone does that. Well, do that with your writing. Just show up. Be there for it. When you get an idea, write it down somewhere and then be a steward of that idea.

The whole process of getting a book published is just part of the process. The last of the process that I enjo

I was writing short films and I was going through this really, really, really terrible end of a relationship that I didn't want to be going through. It was too much for me to process and all of a sudden I had this idea for my first feature film and I knew right away I had to start writing it.

When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn't feel laboring, that's usually a good sign for me.

I don't really have a writing process. I don't write at all but, honestly, I feel like it's a modern-day writing because everything is technology and if I go in there and freestyle and I keep it, I feel like I wrote that. If I go in there and fix it, it's almost like something I wrote.

One poem or story doesn't matter one way or the other. It's the process of writing and life that matters.

The thrill of science is the process. It's a social process. It's a process of collective discovery. It's debate, it's experimentation and it's verification of claims that might be false. It's the greatest foundation for a society.

My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding.

My process differs... my process for a Richard Linklater film is very different than a process for Training Day.

Entrepreneurship is a process, not a job or profession. So be faithful to the process and remember that even when times are bad, the process will give you a glimpse of the future that lies ahead.

I enjoy the process of writing. The torment comes in getting my bottom on the chair and in front of the typewriter.

Douglas Adams did not enjoy writing, and he enjoyed it less as time went on. He was a bestselling, acclaimed, and much-loved novelist who had not set out to be a novelist, and who took little joy in the process of crafting novels. He loved talking to audiences. He liked writing screenplays. He liked being at the cutting edge of technology and inventing