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I loved the process of writing. -- Nora Roberts
Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel. -- Donna Tartt
I never have particular actors planned when I'm in the process of writing. -- Susanne Bier
Right now we're in the process of writing new material for a new record. -- Dave Lombardo
I like the process of writing songs. It makes me feel good. -- Colin Hay
The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life. -- Rita Mae Brown
Now, the process of writing poetry is very messy. Not systematic, never quite the same -- Edward Hirsch
The process of writing is a little like madness, a kind of possession not altogether benign. -- Joanne Harris
The whole process of writing a novel is having this great, beautiful idea and then spoiling it. -- Diane Johnson
Give yourself the mental freedom to enjoy the process, because the process of writing is a long one. -- Tara Moss
For me, the process of writing a novel happens mostly in your head before you actually start writing. -- Dan Chaon
I write every day. I'm always in the process of writing my last book, until the next one. -- Farley Mowat
A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason. -- Margaret Atwood
The process of writing a poem represents work done on the self of the poet, in order to make form. -- Muriel Rukeyser
The conclusion I came to was that even if I couldn't sell books, I still liked the process of writing. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
I love stand-up, but the process of writing is a little more lonely. I want to keep doing both, though. -- Jack Whitehall
One poem or story doesn't matter one way or the other. It's the process of writing and life that matters. -- Natalie Goldberg
I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely. -- Anne Tyler
Thank God for being a writer, because you do sort of find out what you think by the process of writing. -- Robyn Davidson
I had to be happy with the process of writing.Each step you take is more rewarding than the one before. -- Drew Magary
The process of writing a book is like the process of preparing a dinner. Serving dishes, choosing ingredients and so on. -- Brian Tracy
The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation. -- Elias Canetti
I enjoy the process of writing. The torment comes in getting my bottom on the chair and in front of the typewriter. -- Caryl Rivers
You can then further enhance the process of writing by forming the clear intention that your Higher Self will influence your writing. -- Genevieve
Whether it is done quickly or slowly, however splendid the results, the process of writing fiction is inherently, inevitably, indistinguishable from wasting time. -- Deborah Eisenberg
Usually form seems to find me in the process of writing a poem, though I have nothing against starting out with the form. -- Matthea Harvey
If you want to be a writer, you must be in love with the process of writing, whether you achieve financial success or not. -- Cinda Williams Chima
There is so much about the process of writing that is mysterious to me, but this one thing I've found to be true: writing begets writing. -- Dorianne Laux
Fiction does not spring into the world fully grown, like Athena. It is the process of writing and rewriting that makes a fiction original, if not profound. -- John Gardner
I tend to like order in almost every other aspect of my life, but for me, the process of writing is really chaotic and decadent and indulgent. -- Dan Chaon
There's nothing wrong with delighting in what you do. In fact, most of the fun you'll have as a poet will come about during the process of writing. -- Ted Kooser
It is my contention that the process of reading is part of the process of writing, the necessary completion without which writing can hardly be said to exist. -- Margaret Atwood
A book of mine is always a matter of fate. There is something unpredictable about the process of writing, and I cannot prescribe for myself any predetermined course. -- Carl Jung
I don't enjoy any of the process of writing. I enjoy it when it goes on if it zings and it has great warmth and import and it's successful. -- Rod Serling
In writing, one searches, and that is what keeps one writing, that one sees and experiences things from another angle entirely; one experiences oneself during the process of writing. -- Herta Muller
I enjoy the process of writing collaboration so there's some stuff that already that may happen and then some stuff that I'm initiating that I may write on my own. -- Oren Moverman
The process of writing 'The Innovator's Dilemma' entailed the developing a new theory. My colleagues, students and I have been improving that theory, and adding others to it, since that time. -- Clayton Christensen
I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between them yet, let alone settle down to the process of writing. -- Jonathan Coe
For a country is not merely a piece of earth; it is, above all, a compendium of social, cultural, and historical factors which begin to acquire sense and order through the process of writing. -- Juan Goytisolo
I've written a lot of books now; I've been published for over 30 years. I hope with every book I learn something new, and with every new novel I try to improve the process of writing. -- Charlaine Harris
I think that in the process of writing, all kinds of unexpected things happen that shift the poet away from his plan and that these accidents are really what we mean when we talk about poetry. -- John Ashbery
I would love to produce a film. I have written a script and am in the process of writing another, so maybe it will happen down the road. I would love to do a film in Africa. -- Judi Shekoni
I'm not a fast writer, and I find the process of writing a first draft to be painful and frustrating. Usually, I start with a character, a premise, and some image that gives me a particular feeling. -- Holly Black
The process of writing a novel begins with a pang, a moment of recognition, and a situation, a character, or something you read in a paper, that seems to go off, like a solar flare inside your head. -- Martin Amis
I don't think the process of writing books is in any way sensible. It's not logical, and it's not reasonable. I do write very fast, and I just do it in a binge. Other people binge-drink; I binge-write. -- Kerry Greenwood
It is a wonderful thing in the process of writing when such paper characters are first sketched, and, when one is doing good work, from a certain point in time they come alive and start contradicting the author as well. -- Gunter Grass
A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason. Think of it as the altar of the Muse Oblivion, to whom you sacrifice your botched first drafts, the tokens of your human imperfection. -- Margaret Atwood
I can't tell you exactly how I found it. It was just a process of writing a lot of stories and reading a lot of stories that I admired and just working and working until the sentences sounded right and I was satisfied with them. -- Jhumpa Lahiri
I see the author as the person who has written; the writer, the one involved in the process of writing. And they're not necessarily friends. The writer is the one I want to reinforce; the author would just feed on the reviews - so I'm in favour of starving him. -- Edward St Aubyn
The process of writing a novel is getting to know more about the novel until you know everything about it. And it's been described as a kind of dreamlike state where you're letting the novel make its own shape, and you're putting into it the pleasure of creation, which is intoxicating. -- Martin Amis
The process of writing and directing drives you to such extremes that it's natural to feel an affinity with insanity. I approach that madness as something dangerous, and I'm afraid, but also I want to go to it, to see what's there, to embrace it. I don't know why, but I'm drawn. -- Dario Argento
I can't separate the process of writing from the visual process. I'm speaking only for myself here, but I'm a highly visual writer. In my imagination, when I'm thinking of a scene, I think of every last detail of it: The space, the color palette, the blocking of the actors, the placement of the camera. -- Stephen Gaghan
Seize the Story' takes readers all the way through the process of writing fiction, from beginning to end. Every element, from dialogue to setting, plotting to character creation, is laid out and illustrated with examples. But the tone of the book is not that of a dry writing manual - it's definitely written for teenagers. -- Victoria Hanley
Organic growth is a cyclical process; it is just as true to say that the oak is a potential acorn as it is to say the acorn is a potential oak. But the process of writing a poem, of making any art object, is not cyclical but a motion in one direction toward a definite end. -- W. H. Auden
After so many books and so many years of writing, I have a good idea of my strengths and weaknesses. I love the process of writing and, if I allowed myself, I would write far too much every day. One weakness which I've struggled to overcome is my tendency to having my characters ruminate for pages. -- Walter Dean Myers
To me, the process of writing is just reading what I've written and - like running your hand over one of those mod glass stovetops to find where the heat is - looking for where the energy is in the prose, then going in the direction of that. It's an exercise in being open to whatever is there. -- George Saunders
The idea of songwriting is a transformative thing, and what I do with songwriting is take situations that are quite ordinary and transform them in some way. Apart from things like the murder ballads, the songs I write, at their core, are quite ordinary human concerns, but the process of writing about them transforms them into something else. -- Nick Cave
Eragon started as me but ended up evolving into his very own character, .. Even as he has gone through his coming- of- age story, the process of writing and publishing these novels has been my own coming- of- age story. There are parallels between my own experience and Eragon's, but fortunately, I don't have people charging at me with swords. -- Christopher Paolini
Before I even knew what that half of my family did, I was interested in performing. I remember being seven years old and up on a stage and loving it. I've always adored it. Not just acting, but the whole process of writing and directing movies, everything that has to do with that part of life. Maybe it's in my blood. -- Jack Huston
From the beginning I felt that I didn't ever want to leave the impression that the process of writing a poem is totally mysterious. I couldn't explain everything that went on in the creation of a poem, but I could try to explain as much as I knew. I thought readers deserved that. I didn't want to set myself apart as being someone special. -- Pattiann Rogers
The Love Dare for Parents really came from an ongoing response from people who went through the couple's book asking us to do the same for children. It's been a long time coming after a couple years doing this. But we're excited that it's now hitting shelves. We learned a lot going through the process of writing it, so we can't wait to see what happens. -- Alex Kendrick
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. -- J. G. Ballard
The process of writing can be a powerful tool for self-discovery. Writing demands self-knowledge; it forces the writer to become a student of human nature, to pay attention to his experience, to understand the nature of experience itself. By delving into raw experience and distilling it into a work of art, the writer is engaging in the heart and soul of philosophy - making sense out of life. -- Georg Buhler
Writing is an incessant process of discovery. -- Robert Hass
I enjoy writing. I enjoy that kind of process. -- Caroline Kennedy
Music is an important part of my writing process. -- Peter James
I love the structural part of the writing process. -- Kate Morton
Writing is the process of asking the next logical question. -- J. Michael Straczynski
Writing the book was itself a process of concealing and revealing. -- Rick Moody
It's sort of one ongoing process where writing ends and directing starts. -- Sean Durkin
The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning. -- A. B. Yehoshua
The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive. -- Ridley Scott
After ten years of word processing, I can't even do hand writing anymore. -- Douglas Adams
For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it. -- Lois McMaster Bujold
Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing. -- Jan Karon
What I love is the writing, it's not having written. I like the process of it. -- Michael Koryta
Writing anything as an expert is really poisonous to the writing process, because you lose the quality of discovery. -- Siddhartha Mukherjee
My writing process is a mix of research, personal experiences, washing the dishes, raising kids while thinking - then writing. -- Jean Craighead George
I was always writing music anyway. I just sort of fell into it. Writing for me is a therapeutic process. -- Lisa Marie Presley
All writing is a process of elimination. -- Martha Albrand
My writing process isn't a very organized thing. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Writing and learning and thinking are the same process. -- William Zinsser
We absolutely need to reform the Congressional budget-writing process. -- Patrick McHenry
I try to not be self-conscious in my writing process. -- St. Lucia
I get very deep into the writing and recording process. -- Natasha Bedingfield
Writing helps me process things that are happening to me. -- Juliana Hatfield
The writing process, it's too mysterious to try and describe. -- Mick Jones
There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process. -- Joy Williams
In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better. -- Doris Lessing
Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul. -- Isabel Allende
Writing is one of the main ways that I process the experience. -- Jennifer Pharr Davis
The thought of writing was always pleasant, but the process was painful -- Monica Denise Brown
My writing process has changed because it's harder to find uninterrupted time. -- Ann Patchett
Editing feels almost like sculpting or a form of continuing the writing process. -- Sydney Pollack
It does feel great to be writing, but the process is sometimes excruciating. -- Carrie Brownstein
Writing is the process by which you explain to yourself what happened to you. -- Arlene Croce
Writing is a process of creating yourself again and again for an ever-searching mind. -- Debasish Mridha
The process of book writing for me is entirely one of trial and error. -- Geoff Dyer
Writing, like any art, is a continuing process of discovering the infinite possibilities of Life. -- Hubert Selby, Jr.
I haven't had writer's block. I think it's because my process involves writing very badly. -- Jennifer Egan
Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process. -- Isabel Allende
Usually it is a painful process (writing), "Superman" came in 45 minutes; "100 Years" in four months. -- Five for Fighting
The writing process for me is pretty much always the same - it's a solitary experience. -- Sheryl Crow
I always work with text orally in the writing process, saying passages aloud to measure flow. -- Vivek Shraya
Enter the writing process with a childlike sense of wonder and discovery. Let it surprise you. -- Charles Ghigna
I have to say that writing about my writing process is more daunting than writing non-fiction. -- Sefi Atta
My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding. -- Amy Bloom
Use the creative process - singing, writing, art, dance, whatever - to get to know yourself better. -- Catie Curtis
The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different. -- Sean Penn
In my own writing, I've mostly abandoned end-rhyme, but wordplay is still a huge part of my process. -- Matthea Harvey
My writing is inspired by just about everything, yet I am unaware of so much of the process. -- Hubert Selby, Jr.
Writing music uses a whole different process that involves a lot of noodling and just seeing what comes. -- Charles de Lint
I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process. -- George Murray
When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn't feel laboring, that's usually a good sign for me. -- David E. Kelley
Well, everything surprises me about the writing process because illustrating comes much more naturally to me than writing does. -- Brian Selznick
When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out. -- Alanis Morissette
For me, the writing process is the same as the reading process. I want to know what happens next. -- Neal Asher
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Writing isn't about the process. It is about creating. The joy comes not from the process but from the creation. -- Harlan Coben
I love the writing process. It's something that I'm interested in personally and something I always do on every movie. -- Olivia Wilde

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