Best flow & writing Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Here's a secret: fictive text doesn't necessarily flow easily. Most of the time it's more like cutting a highway through a mountain. You just have to keep working with your pick, chipping away at the rock, making slow progress.”

Writing Secret Cutting Progress Rocks Mountain Picks Flow Highways Chipping Away Slow Progress

Author:Piers Anthony

“Don't talk about it - you'll talk it away. Let the ideas flow from your mind to the page without exposing them to air. Especially hot air.”

Writing Mind Ideas Air Pages Flow Hot Exposing Hot Air

Author:Tom Robbins

“So you're stuck. Every time your madman starts to write, your judge pounces on him... So start by promising your judge that you'll get around to asking his opinion, but not now. And then let the madman energy flow... Save details for the judge.”

Writing Energy Opinion Judging Flow Asking Details Stuck Now And Then Madmen Energy Flow

Author:Betty Sue Flowers

“Music's always part of my writing. I think all art is interconnected. You can't create or experience one without its influences bleeding into another. In my writing, music's mostly something that feeds my inspiration and mood while I'm writing, but it's also taught me how to score scenes and even novels. The rise and fall of the storyline echoes the flow of a good piece of music.”

Thinking Writing Art Inspiration Fall Novel Pieces Influence Taught Scene Art Is Flow Mood Score Echoes Bleeding Interconnected Writing Music Rise And Fall Storyline

Author:Charles de Lint

“It's not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.”

Thinking Writing Persons Soul Matter Form Flow

Author:Anton Chekhov

“In playwriting, you've got to be able to write dialogue. And if you write enough of it and let it flow enough, you'll probably come across something that will give you a key as to structure. I think the process of writing a play is working back and forth between the moment and the whole. The moment and the whole, the fluidity of the dialogue and the necessity of a strict construction. Letting one predominate for a while and coming back and fixing it so that eventually what you do, like a pastry chef, is frost your mistakes, if you can.”

“I gotta pound the keys for the ideas to flow.”

Writing Ideas Keys Flow Pounds

Author:Kirby Larson

“You have to turn the faucet on before the water starts to flow.”

Writing Turns Water Flow

Author:Louis L'Amour

“The hardest period for a writer is the period in-between writing. That's when you can go crazy if you don't allow the creative juices to flow.”

Ifs Writing Creative Crazy Periods Flow Hardest Juice Creative Juices

Author:Ice Cube

“I write incessantly, I'm very productive, I write for a dozen publications and blogs and websites. A lot of very hardcore political stuff. I write a weekly feature. I express myself. But when time comes to make music [with the] same absolutely unleashing of total honesty zero inhibitions, it just flows like a stream of conscientiousness because I will not be silenced no matter what my point might be.”

Writing Matter Might Political Stuff Honesty Flow No Matter What Features Streams Productive Zero Dozen Blogs Website Publication Hardcore Incessantly Inhibitions Unleashing Conscientiousness

Author:Ted Nugent

“I think I became a better writer after I started writing for the New Yorker. Well, I know I did. And part of it was having my New Yorker editor and part of it is that was when I started really going on tour and reading things in front of an audience 30 times and then going back in the room and rewriting it and reading it and rewriting it. So you really get the rhythm of the sentences down and you really get the flow down and you get rid of stuff that's not important.”

Thinking Knows Writing Wells Important Reading Stuff Rooms Audience Fronts Flow Down And Sentences Rhythm Editors New Yorkers Rewriting

Author:David Sedaris

“I don't write poems and put them to music. Just let things flow.”

Writing Flow

Author:Martin Gore

“Busyness, I feel increasingly, is the writer's curse and downfall. You read too much and write too readily, you become cut off from your inner life, from the flow of your own thoughts, and turned far too much towards the outside world.”

World Feels Writing Too Much Cutting Flow Curse Inner Life Outside World Downfall

Author:Hilary Mantel

“Many of us write because we are readers and have grown up in a long tradition, and we want to be able to add to that extraordinary flow of interpretations of the world.”

World Want Writing Long Able Reader Tradition Flow Add Extraordinary Interpretation

Author:Rosellen Brown

“I try not to get analytical in the writing process. I try to just kind of keep the flow from my brain to my hand as far as the pen is concerned and go with the moment and go with my guts.”

Writing Trying Kind Moments Hands Process Brain Concerned Flow Guts Pens Writing Process

Author:Quentin Tarantino

“There was more of a flow to my output of writing in the past, certainly. Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, "Well, so-and-so will like this," which you do when you're younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.”

Writing Wells Mean Past Left Sides Realizing Flow Bleak Output

Author:Gore Vidal

“Any kind of writing that's meaningful becomes hard work, so there were times when it would really flow, there were times when I'd get 10 pages a day, and then there were days when I would do three pages. Depends on the thickness of the material. If it's satisfying, it's hard, but it's pretty wonderful.”

Ifs Writing Kind Hard Three Wonderful Materials Hard Work Depends Pages Flow Meaningful Satisfying Thickness

Author:Steve Guttenberg

“My grand plan is that I can master having a better life by making sure I have a regular flow of songs. Then I can give myself time to tour or celebrate or write a film score.”

Giving Writing I Can Film Song Plans Masters Flow Celebrate Score Better Life Film Scores

Author:Imogen Heap

“Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite is labor. In writing, every writer knows when he or she is laboring to achieve an effect. You want to get from here to there, but find yourself willing it, forcing it. The equivalent in basketball is aiming your shot, a kind of strained and usually ineffective purposefulness. What you want is to be in some kind of flow, each next moment a discovery.”

“I believe that there's a force of life in the universe, and that when we're writing or making music or painting, we're likely to connect with that flow.”

Writing Believe Universe Force I Believe Painting Flow

Author:Erica Jong

“Reading and writing are the same thing; it's just one's the more active and the other's the more passive. They flow into each other.”

Writing Reading Flow Active Just One Passive Reading And Writing

Author:Jonathan Lethem

“I'm a plotter. A thinker, a note-maker, a mapper and a flow-charter. I'm up for using any device that will teach me more about the people I'm writing about and their story.”

People Writing Stories Teach Flow Notes Devices Makers Thinker Charter

Author:Nick Earls

“Short story writers simply do what human beings have always done. They write stories because they have to; because they cannot rest until they have tried as hard as they can to write the stories. They cannot rest because they are human, and all of us need to speak into the silence of mortality, to interrupt and ever so briefly stop that quiet flow, and with stories try to understand at least some of it.”

Needs Writing Trying Humans Hard Done Stories Speak Human Beings Silence Quiet Flow Mortality Short Story Story Writers

Book:Broken Vessels: Essays

Source: Broken Vessels: Essays

“I tend to write songs fast, so the process usually only lasts around 30 minutes. In the studio is where I really can artistically breathe, and let my ideas flow.”

Writing Ideas Lasts Song Process Minutes Flow Studios Breathe

Author:Alan Cohen

“For me, the more I live, the more I need to write. The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow.”

Needs Writing Song Steps Comfort Flow Zone Comfort Zone

Author:Damien Rice

“I have never seen an experienced programmer who routinely made detailed flow charts before beginning to write programs.”

Writing Made Program Flow Programmers

Author:Fred Brooks

“My books flow. People say they pick them up and they can't put them down. It's because when I'm writing them I pick my pen up and I cannot put my pen down.”

People Writing Book Picks Flow Pens

Author:Jackie Collins

“Like once we picked Jim Norton as the head of security, the writing flows pretty easily.”

Writing Security Flow

Author:Ted Alexandro

“When I am at peace with myself . . . then thoughts flow into me most easily and at their best. Where they come from and how - that I cannot say . . . I'd be willing to work forever and forever if I were permitted to write only such music as I want to write and can write - which I myself think good.”

Ifs Thinking Want Writing Forever Willing Flow

Author:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“One great aim of revision is to cut out. In the exuberance of composition it is natural to throw in - as one does in speaking - a number of small words that add nothing to meaning but keep up the flow and rhythm of thought. In writing, not only does this surplusage not add to meaning, it subtracts from it. Read and revise, reread and revise, keeping reading and revising until your text seems adequate to your thought.”

Writing Doe Seems Reading Natural Numbers Cutting Flow Aim Add Rhythm Composition Adequate Revision Exuberance Revising Small Words

Author:Jacques Barzun

“Writing should be testimony to the vast flow of life through us.”

Should Writing Flow Testimony

Author:Victor Serge

“During those times like in my early years as a writer I could actually write a song in ten minutes because all of a sudden a song is writing itself, I'm just putting down words. It just seem each line that you put down flows with the other ones. It's like writing a love letter you don't think about it, it's something from the heart.”

Thinking Writing Years Heart Seems Song Lines Minutes Ten Flow Letters Love Letter

Author:Ben E. King

“Part of writing is discovering the rules of the game and then deciding whether to follow the rules or to break them. The great thing about the game of poetry is that it's always your turn - I guess that goes back to my being an only child. So once it's under way, there is a sense of flow.”

Way Writing Children Turns Games Break Flow Great Things Poetry Is Discovering Only Child Rules Of The Game

Author:Billy Collins

“Curiously, the balance seems to come when writing is woven into every aspect of my life, like eating or exercising - one flows constantly into the next: I'll wake up and have coffee, read the news, then write a letter or two (always in longhand), then go teach, and after teaching write a bit in a journal - dreams, what I had for breakfast and lunch and why I had it, what's on the iPod, sexual habits, etc. - then read a bit, then work on a real bit of writing...you get the idea.”

Writing Two Ideas Real Dream Seems Next Bits Teach Teaching Habit Balance Exercise Eating News Aspect Flow Letters Wake Up Coffee Etc Breakfast Lunch Journal Woven Ipods

Author:Kevin Keck

“I am not one of those writers that it just flows out of effortlessly. I have to sit and write and rewrite and sometimes it's really challenging to get anything good out of myself.”

Writing Sometimes Challenges Flow

Author:Princess Superstar

“I feel so fortunate to get paid to be an actor. I pinch myself. I get it from writing, I get it from baking, gardening... I sort of open myself to the creative flow, which is hard to do, by the way.”

Way Feels Writing Hard Actors Creative Flow Paid Fortunate Gardening Baking

Author:Lauren Bowles

“It's pretty easy to think of the idea of a story, and maybe even to write a scene or two, but understanding the ebb and flow of a narrative, where to leave the little clues your protagonist (and reader) need, while playing fair, takes a lot more skill and patience than you might think.”

Thinking Needs Writing Littles Two Ideas Stories Might Easy Understanding Reader Scene Skills Fairs Flow Narrative Clue Protagonists Ebb And Flow

Author:Dennis Green

“There's so many amazing articles coming out all the time and because of the internet circulating great writing - even if the writers don't get paid enough most of the time, unfortunately - but there's never been a more amazing flow of information on all of the issues. I would love to see a revival of what we had against the war in the '60s - we could do thes”

Ifs Writing War Enough Issues Information Internet Flow Paid Articles Coming Out Revival Great Writing

Author:Bonnie Raitt

“New formalism is writing with language as flow, like the flow from a dam, running through a desert that has had no rain for decades.”

Writing Running Language Rain Flow Decades Desert Dams

Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“I always work with text orally in the writing process, saying passages aloud to measure flow.”

Writing Process Flow Passages Writing Process

Author:Vivek Shraya

“I write constantly, so it flows from one project to the next, and I would edit everything endlessly if I had the chance. I can always see ways to improve what I've done. At the same time, knowing it's all an ongoing life's work allows me to be less precious about blind alleys, failed experiments, and misfires.”

Ifs Way Writing I Can Done Next Chance Knowing Projects Flow Blind Experiments Ongoing Edits Alleys

Author:Grant Morrison

“I think people who create and write, it actually does flow-just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they write it down. It's simple.”

People Thinking Writing Doe Hands Simple Flow Great Beatles

Author:Paul McCartney

“Sometimes I write with music on, and if I'm in a good flow, I don't even hear it.”

Ifs Writing Sometimes Flow

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“With writing, I can express myself, really, and share my ideas and just let my thoughts flow out.”

Writing I Can Ideas Share Flow My Thoughts

Author:Adora Svitak

“Fantasy flows in where fact leaves a vacuum.”

Writing Facts Fantasy Flow Vacuums

Author:Tom Stoppard

“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on”

Inspirational Writing Doe Matter Kids Water Flow No Matter What Storytelling Great Writing Inspiration To Write Inspiring Writing

Book:Education of a Wandering Man

Source: Education of a Wandering Man

“So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days. One may be preoccupied with shopping and income tax returns and chance conversations, but the stream of the unconscious continues to flow undisturbed, solving problems, planning ahead: one sits down sterile and dispirited at the desk, and suddenly the words come as though from the air: the situations that seemed blocked in a hopeless impasse move forward: the work has been done while one slept or shopped or talked with friends.”

Source: The End of the Affair

“I love the sound of words, the feel of them, the flow of them. I love the challenge of finding just that perfect combination of words to describe a curl of the lip, a tilt of the chin, a change in the atmosphere. Done well, novel-writing can combine lyricism with practicality in a way that makes one think of grand tapestries, both functional and beautiful. Fifty years from now, I imagine I’ll still be questing after just that right combination of words.”

“Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.”

Writing Book Reading Thousand Flow Rivers

Author:Lisa See

“Sit and quiet yourself. Luxuriate in a certain memory and the details will come. Let the images flow. You'll be amazed at what will come out on paper. I'm still learning what it is about the past that I want to write. I don't worry about it. It will emerge. It will insist on being told.”

Want Writing Stills Past Certain Memories Worry Quiet Paper Flow Details Amazed

Author:Frank McCourt

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