Writing Advice Process Quotes

“Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.”
― John Waters

“The show must go on, and so must The Book.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri

“When you write a manuscript, it feels like being in a relationship with someone. You'll hate it, get bored with it, be pissed of, like you just want to break up. But, just like any relationship, you will fall in love again and again, like you don't want to lose it.”
― Alvi Syahrin

“Write freely and with feeling.”
― Dee Lopez

“I think if a writer is being honest they’d admit to a file full of a dozen or more stories that are all started to varying degrees. They’re like the kid who wants to be a firefighter and a police officer and an astronaut.”
― Dan Alatorre

“It's okay to write a cliché in a first draft; it sets a marker that you can get far, far away from in the rewrites.”
― Stewart Stafford

“You can’t take it personally when something you have written sucks. Just delete it and write something else.”
― Gudjon Bergmann, The Author's Blueprint

“The agenda of consciousness behind any an act of creation is the desire to share.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“It's about permitting yourself to touch the weird in search of the amazing.”
― Nick Harkaway

“Make an appointment with yourself to write. Schedule it into your calendar and treat it like any other appointment. Respect it, and use it!”
― Vindy Teja & Anna Brooke, WRITE! Your Guide to Revealing the Writer Within