“'Writing things was important, wasn't it?' 'Yes, it was. The process of writing was important. Even thought the finished product is completely meaningless.'”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“You know what's great about writing a book is it is still waiting for you the next day right where you left it and also probably that night haunting you and basically always it is in your brain and you can't escape it.”— Jami Attenberg, twitter.com
“I want to write stories that are different from the ones I've written so far . . . I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can hold the ones they love.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“How everything can be said, how far everything, for the strangest fancies, there waits a great fire in which they perish and rise up again. . . . Only in this way can writing be done, only with such coherence, with such a complete opening out of the body and the soul.”— Franz Kafka, amazon.com
“At some point fate takes over a story and even the author himself loses control.”— Alena Smith, Yvonne, Joanna Gleason, imdb.com
“It can be hard, during the solitary years of writing a book, to imagine it might ever find its way into in the lives & hearts of others.”— Robert Macfarlane, twitter.com
“Hi a writing thing I've been finding really helpful lately is I outline and organize and elaborate on all my points in my notes app so it feels super casual, then when you copy that over to your Actual Writing Program, you see you've already written so much!! Boom! No more blank page. The cool thing…”— Jonny Sun, twitter.com
“A novel has roughly six stages of 'done.' 1: 'I know how it ends, but not how to do it.' 2: 'I know how to do it, but haven't written it.' 3: 'I wrote it, but it sucks.' 4: 'I wrote it again, but it needs work.' 5: 'I finished the work, but I'm still not happy.' 6: 'good enough'”— Sam Sykes, twitter.com
“I always prefer writing about people. People grow, change and sometimes change back, but they remain persistently irritating and open-ended until they die. And sometimes afterward, too.”— Sam Sykes, twitter.com
“Writing is 98% hell, 1% finding the word you wanted without using a thesaurus at all, and 1% eating a snack in celebration of finding said word.”— rachel syme, twitter.com
“Sometimes you write for 10 hours and never come up with a single thing you like, and then you wake up the next day and the right phrase is just sitting there for you at the front of your mind like a lukewarm snack cake from an easy-bake oven.”— rachel syme, twitter.com
“On writing Start with one word or one thought. Write it down. Is it the right word or thought? Is there a better word or thought? Get that *one single thing* right, then move onto the next.”— Quiara Alegría Hudes, twitter.com
“You know what to say, though you may have buried it so deep it needs excavating. So no more excuses, dispense with the wordplay, don't waste time being timid. Unearth it, write it.”— Quiara Alegría Hudes, twitter.com