Writing Process Quotes

• I hate writing, I love having written.

  Dorothy Parker

  Hate, Writing, Written

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• The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I'm just like, 'Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do'.

  Eminem

  Rap, Writing, Thinking

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• The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.

  A. B. Yehoshua

  Writing, Complicated, Process

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• My writing is a process of rewriting, of going back and changing and filling in. in the rewriting process you discover what's going on, and you go back and bring it up to that point.

  Joan Didion

  Writing, Filling In, Process

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• In the writing process, the more the story cooks, the better. The brain works for you even when you are at rest. I find dreams particularly useful. I myself think a great deal before I go to sleep and the details sometimes unfold in the dream.

  Doris Lessing

  Dream, Sleep, Writing

  "Mrs. Lessing Addresses Some of Life's Puzzles". Interview with Herbert Mitgang, archive.nytimes.com. April 22, 1984.

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• I really enjoy the writing process because I can do it from my house. I can create these characters and take them in the different directions that I want to take them. You have a lot of freedom as a writer.

  Ricky Schroder

  Character, Writing, House

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• In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better.

  Doris Lessing

  Writing, Stories, Process

  "Routine inquiries: what goes into a writing 'process'?" by Jean Hannah Edelstein, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2008.

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• The writing process is sort of like when you've got no electricity and you've gotten up in the middle of the night to find the bathroom, feeling your way along in the dark. I can't hardly tell you what I do because I really don't know.

  Carolyn Chute

  Writing, Dark, Night

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• My writings are an exploration, and I think a lot of writers would tell you this, but in writing, you're not simply putting down things that are already known to you. You're actually discovering in the writing process, you're actually creating knowledge.

  Alan Lightman

  Writing, Thinking, Creating

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• Anxiety is not only an inevitable part of the writing process but a necessary part. If you’re not scared, you’re not writing.

  Ralph Keyes

  Writing, Anxiety, Scared

  Ralph Keyes (2003). “The Courage to Write: How Writers Transcend Fear”, p.22, Macmillan

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• Writing is a struggle against silence.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Life, Beautiful, Struggle

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• I try not to get analytical in the writing process. I try to just kind of keep the flow from my brain to my hand as far as the pen is concerned and go with the moment and go with my guts.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Writing, Hands, Brain

  Source: creativescreenwriting.com

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• I love the structural part of the writing process.

  Kate Morton

  Writing, Process

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• The writing process is not just putting down one page after another-it's a lot of writing and then rewriting, restructuring the story, changing the way things come together.

  Rebecca Stead

  Writing, Together, Stories

  National Book Foundation's BookUpNYC Interview, www.nationalbook.org.

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• If you get trapped in your head and out of your body during the writing process, it's very easy to make wrong turns. You have to really be in touch with your heart rather than your head to write the novel you want.

  Soman Chainani

  Writing, Heart, Easy

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• The writing process is very much like being in a dark tunnel, and you don't really know what you will end up with until you have created it.

  Emily Haines

  Writing, Dark, Tunnels

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Amy Bloom

  Writing, Process, Avoiding

  Amy Bloom (2010). “Where the God of Love Hangs Out: Fiction”, p.225, Random House

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• At the risk, then, of being shunned by some of my gloomier peers, I venture to tell you that writers work like demons, suffer greatly, and are also happy, in unmistakable ways, some of the time. If we had no knowledge of happiness, our novels wouldn't sufficiently resemble real life. Some of us are even made a little bit happy, on occasion, by the writing process itself. I mean, really, if there wasn't some sort of enjoyment to be derived, would any of us keep doing it?

  Michael Cunningham

  Real, Writing, Mean

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• My writing process isn't a very organized thing. The actual writing part is a tiny part of my life. I often write in public. I bring my laptop or write freehand in notebooks. Then, I'll read through them while I exercise or walk the dog. The very last thing I do is the sitting alone at the computer part.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Notebook, Dog, Writing

  Source: www.writersdigest.com

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• What's so exciting and terrifying about the writing process is that it really is an act of exploration and discovery. With all of us, not just writers, there is a sort of knowledge of the other. We have a lot more in common than we realize, and I think writing is really a sustained act of empathy.

  Andre Dubus

  Writing, Thinking, Discovery

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• When the initial little impulse comes it just tends to come. I wake up in the middle of the night, or I'll be swimming in the pool with my kids and just think, "Can't forget that one." Then there's the more organized side of the brain, which is when I choose to work on them. I've learned through a bunch of mentors how to demarcate the different times for your writing process. I keep multiple projects going at once and there's a time when no matter what you're doing, you have to stop and write it because it's coming.

  Mark Duplass

  Writing, Kids, Swimming

  Source: www.salon.com

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• I felt that in a way, I hated the writing process so much. It's excruciating, as I'm sure you know, and so lonely being in the solitary prison of my office. A lot of brain-wracking. It just felt like it was so much hard work, and I would send it away. I felt as though I was doing all of this heavy lifting, this weightlifting, every day, all day. It was excruciating. And I stayed skinny, and someone else got all the muscles. I was eating all my vegetables, but then I wouldn't get dessert. To me, directing is the dessert.

  Shane Black

  Lonely, Hard Work, Writing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My writing process is ritualized and monotonous, but there's no other way to get the job done. All other fiction writers I've met say the same thing.

  Douglas Coupland

  Jobs, Writing, Fiction

  Source: feathertale.com

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• There is a fine line I have to walk throughout the writing process in a novel. It is this line between drama and melodrama, and it is this line between evoking genuine emotional power and being manipulative.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Drama, Writing, Emotional

  Source: collider.com

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• I just thought it was important that people knew right from the jump that I've got problems. But in all seriousness, that's a huge part of my writing process.

  Joshua Mohr

  Writing, People, Important

  Source: therumpus.net

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