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Writing is an incessant process of discovery. -- Robert Hass
For me, writing is just processing. -- Mary Lambert
I loved the process of writing. -- Nora Roberts
My writing process isn't a very organized thing. -- Chuck Palahniuk
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
We absolutely need to reform the Congressional budget-writing process. -- Patrick McHenry
I get very deep into the writing and recording process. -- Natasha Bedingfield
Writing helps me process things that are happening to me. -- Juliana Hatfield
Writing is the process of asking the next logical question. -- J. Michael Straczynski
The writing process, it's too mysterious to try and describe. -- Mick Jones
Writing the book was itself a process of concealing and revealing. -- Rick Moody
My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing. -- Brian Eno
Writing anything as an expert is really poisonous to the writing process, because you lose the quality of discovery. -- Siddhartha Mukherjee
Well, everything surprises me about the writing process because illustrating comes much more naturally to me than writing does. -- Brian Selznick
For me, the writing process is the same as the reading process. I want to know what happens next. -- Neal Asher
Writing isn't about the process. It is about creating. The joy comes not from the process but from the creation. -- Harlan Coben
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
Writing and learning and thinking are the same process. -- William Zinsser
I try to not be self-conscious in my writing process. -- St. Lucia
There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process. -- Joy Williams
Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul. -- Isabel Allende
Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel. -- Donna Tartt
In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better. -- Doris Lessing
It's sort of one ongoing process where writing ends and directing starts. -- Sean Durkin
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
I like the process of writing songs. It makes me feel good. -- Colin Hay
My writing process has changed because it's harder to find uninterrupted time. -- Ann Patchett
I never have particular actors planned when I'm in the process of writing. -- Susanne Bier
The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive. -- Ridley Scott
It does feel great to be writing, but the process is sometimes excruciating. -- Carrie Brownstein
Editing feels almost like sculpting or a form of continuing the writing process. -- Sydney Pollack
The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life. -- Rita Mae Brown
The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning. -- A. B. Yehoshua
Writing is a process of creating yourself again and again for an ever-searching mind. -- Debasish Mridha
Writing is the process by which you explain to yourself what happened to you. -- Arlene Croce
For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it. -- Lois McMaster Bujold
Right now we're in the process of writing new material for a new record. -- Dave Lombardo
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.
Now, the process of writing poetry is very messy. Not systematic, never quite the same -- Edward Hirsch
Usually it is a painful process (writing), "Superman" came in 45 minutes; "100 Years" in four months. -- Five for Fighting
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
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
What I love is the writing, it's not having written. I like the process of it. -- Michael Koryta
I always work with text orally in the writing process, saying passages aloud to measure flow. -- Vivek Shraya
The process of writing is a little like madness, a kind of possession not altogether benign. -- Joanne Harris
The writing process for me is pretty much always the same - it's a solitary experience. -- Sheryl Crow
My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding. -- Amy Bloom
The whole process of writing a novel is having this great, beautiful idea and then spoiling it. -- Diane Johnson
The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different. -- Sean Penn
Use the creative process - singing, writing, art, dance, whatever - to get to know yourself better. -- Catie Curtis
For me, the process of writing a novel happens mostly in your head before you actually start writing. -- Dan Chaon
Give yourself the mental freedom to enjoy the process, because the process of writing is a long one. -- Tara Moss
In my own writing, I've mostly abandoned end-rhyme, but wordplay is still a huge part of my process. -- Matthea Harvey
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
I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process. -- George Murray
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
When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn't feel laboring, that's usually a good sign for me. -- David E. Kelley
When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out. -- Alanis Morissette
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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I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely. -- Anne Tyler
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 start casting early in the writing process, so I can tailor the script to the gifts of the actors. -- Judd Apatow
I love stand-up, but the process of writing is a little more lonely. I want to keep doing both, though. -- Jack Whitehall
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
As a writer I have to find platforms that can use this writing process. The internet is one of them. -- Paulo Coelho
The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation. -- Elias Canetti
I had to be happy with the process of writing.Each step you take is more rewarding than the one before. -- Drew Magary
I don't see myself directing things I don't write because, to me, directing was just an extension of the writing process. -- Danny Strong
The writing of the script is a continual process. There's the first draft and then many, many re-writes here and there. -- Abdellatif Kechiche
The process of writing a book is like the process of preparing a dinner. Serving dishes, choosing ingredients and so on. -- Brian Tracy
Writing a book isn't an easy process nor is it always enjoyable, but it is one of life's most satisfying achievements. -- Guy Kawasaki
Thank God for being a writer, because you do sort of find out what you think by the process of writing. -- Robyn Davidson
One of the problems of writing is that anyone who commits themselves to that process has to believe that they're good. -- Steven Bochco
Anytime you put yourself in a creative box, it's going to stifle you; it's not conducive to the writing or recording process. -- Frank Iero
In all honesty, I've written movies that have been made, and the process has not been as satisfying as writing for television. -- Vince Gilligan
For me writing and filmmaking is a therapeutic process. It reflects themes that I'm going through at a time in my life. -- Mark Webber
You can then further enhance the process of writing by forming the clear intention that your Higher Self will influence your writing. -- Genevieve
I enjoy the process of writing. The torment comes in getting my bottom on the chair and in front of the typewriter. -- Caryl Rivers
I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery. -- Jay McInerney
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
The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events. -- Frank Herbert
So much of my writing process is trying to eliminate any kind of shame or fear of the thoughts that I'm having. -- Morgan Parker
Basically, editing is done in rehearsal and in the writing process and in the acting, so it's very, very tricky, very, very tricky. -- Julie Delpy
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
I know that sounds ineffective and daunting, but it [throw hundreds of pages away] is actually my favorite part of the writing process. -- Megan Chance
I see the shape of the poem before I start writing, and the writing is just the process of arriving at the shape. -- Carol Ann Duffy
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
A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself. -- Ezra Pound
Nothing so sharpens the thought process as writing down one's arguments. Weaknesses overlooked in oral discussion become painfully obvious on the written page. -- Hyman Rickover
I'm constantly being surprised and finding unplanned things - because the writing is a process of experiencing things on the ground with the characters. -- Michelle Paver
My creative process involves reading books and magazines, writing outside, and moving around a lot. I like to pace around when I'm writing songs. -- Judith Hill
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
My father always told me I should be a writer, and I found I loved writing my autobiography; writing is such an interesting process. -- Mia Farrow
Writing a poem is always a process of subtracting: you start with all of language available to you, and you choose a smaller field. -- Matthea Harvey
I like the process of pencil and paper as opposed to a machine. I think the writing is better when it's done in handwriting. -- Nelson DeMille
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. -- Sharon Cameron
The writing process was some of the most exciting and rewarding moments of my life. It felt a lot like being in a band. -- Ethan Hawke
As you continue writing and rewriting, you begin to see possibilities you hadn't seen before. Writing a poem is always a process of discovery. -- Robert Hayden
The process of re-writing and writing and re-writing means that you may have a brilliant phrase, but over time it distills and distorts and changes. -- Abi Morgan
A piece of writing is only worth doing if you're a different person at the end of the process than you were at the beginning. -- Brian Morton
I have had quite a lot of prizes, but I don't think it makes any difference to the ease or difficulty to the writing process. -- Ruth Rendell
To me, there are 3 parts of the album process: writing, recording, and my favorite part: getting to sing the songs with the fans every night. -- Eric Hutchinson
I have a very long pre-writing process where I'm jotting down ideas in a notebook and ripping out relevant newspaper articles - a long fact-finding mission. -- Megan McCafferty
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
Knowing what thought process goes into constructing a line helps an actor know how to deliver that line because you understand the intention behind the writing. -- David Henrie
Painting for process is the visual equivalent of journal writing, done not for the sake of being seen or published, but purely for the telling itself. -- Michele Cassou
The process of creating is related to the process of dreaming although when you are writing you're doing it and when you're dreaming, it's doing you. -- Robert Stone
I've always equated the writing process with editing, sort of like when I get through editing the movie, that's like my last draft of the screenplay. -- Quentin Tarantino

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