Writing Creative Process Quotes

“Very early on, near the beginning of my writing life, I came to believe that I had to seize on some object outside of literature. Writing as a sylistic exercise seemed barren to me. Poetry as the art of the word made me yawn. I also understood that I couldn't sustain myself very long on the poems of others. I had to go out from myself and literature, look around in the world and lay hold of other spheres of reality.”
― Zbigniew Herbert, The Collected Prose, 1948-1998

“When I write, it feels like there are two little creatures that sit on each of my shoulders. One whispers, "You can do this. You've got what it takes." The other sounds like my mother-in-law.”
― Carla H Krueger

“Writing is therapy with the Soul!”
― Avijeet Das

“Writer's don't write, they're written through.”
― Laurie Buchanan, PhD

“I think, as writers, we all want a validation to finish our story because there are so many needs to drop it.”
― Veronica Purcell, Seriphyn Knight Chronicles

“It is impossible for me to be in time, with all its distractions and demands, and think, listen, and write coherently. When I say I need to find time to write, I really mean I need to find nevertime.”
― Susan McBride Els, Into the Deep

“To be a writer is to feel everything and channel it into words that people can understand.”
― Jennifer Ann Shore, In The Now