Writing Process Process Quotes

“Remember...
Keystrokes are hammer taps. Get words on paper. Don’t worry about connections, character or plot. Work for an hour. Promise yourself an hour. Do nothing else but move your fingers. Make coarse shapes. Follow any emotion that pops up but never impose emotion, never fake it, and don’t make up your mind or your heart ahead of time. Understand you don’t know what you’re doing. That’s why you’re here. Rough it out. Anything goes. You can decide later what any piece of text looks like, what it might mean. Don’t stop. Don’t question. Don’t quit. Don’t stop to read what you wrote. Move your fingers. You mind will have no other option but to keep up. Remember that writer’s block is merely the cold marble waiting for the chisel to heat up.”
― Bob Thurber

“If you haven't heard a rumor by noon, make one up. If you're a writer, make sure it's a full page of the book you're currently working on.”
― Lamont Tanksley, Incidents In The Life of A Girl: The Unattainable Mulatto