“Writing anything as an expert is really poisonous to the writing process, because you lose the quality of discovery.” WritingProcessLosesQualityDiscoveryExpertsWriting ProcessPoisonous Author:Siddhartha Mukherjee
“I had to learn compassion. Had to learn what it felt like to hate, and to forgive and to love and be loved. And to lose people close to me. Had to feel deep loneliness and sorrow. And then I could write.” PeopleFeelsWritingHateFeltLosesCompassionLonelinessSorrowForgiving Author:Louise Penny
“If I lose, then I have to accept that my way of writing books is not the way society says it's okay to write.” IfsWayWritingBookLosesAcceptingOkayMy WayWriting A Book Author:Asne Seierstad
“We fret about words, we writers. Words mean. Words point. They are arrows. Arrows stuck in the rough hide of reality. And the more portentous, more general the word, the more they can also resemble rooms or tunnels. They can expand, or cave in. They can come to be filled with a bad smell. They will often remind us of other rooms, where we'd rather dwell or where we think we are already living. They can be spaces we lose the art or the wisdom of inhabiting. And eventually those volumes of mental intention we no longer know how to inhabit will be abandoned, boarded up, closed down.” ThinkingKnowsWritingMeanArtRealityLosesSpaceRoomsKnow HowFilledIntentionSmellStuckRoughAbandonedVolumeCavesArrowsTunnelsMean Words Author:Susan Sontag
“The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.” WritingRealizingLosesCreativePureEvidenceSociologyEdenSociological Author:Nadine Gordimer
“I recognize this in my writing process. A consistent writing structure opens the door to amazing insights. I recognize the truth of this in my daily habits. When I set my keys in the place I, with practice, always set my keys... I do not lose them. In many instances an ordered external structure can be an invitation for an extraordinarily unfettered, creative and unbounded inner structure.” WritingProcessLosesPracticeCreativeDoorsKeysHabitStructureInsightInstanceConsistentWriting ProcessInvitationsDaily Habits Author:Mary Anne Radmacher