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When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn't feel laboring, that's usually a good sign for me.

— David E. Kelley

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

It's always struck me as unfair that writing has so little sensation when it's going well.

— Francis Spufford

I'm constantly being surprised and finding unplanned things - because the writing is a process of experiencing things on the ground with the characters.

— Michelle Paver

For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.

— Alice Walker

Writing is an extremely rewarding and humbling process, and I've learned to go with it, that even if it feels absolutely impossible, I will find a way to tell the next story.

— Marie Lu

The whole excitement for writing anything is quite intense. And for a day or two, you think you've done everything extremely well. The problems start on the third day, and continues for the rest of your life.

— Tom Stoppard

The only thing that infuriates me is that I have more unwritten stories in me than I can conceivably write in a lifetime.

— Howard Fast

The writing life is one long, never-ending search for narrative. Well, it's not even a conscious searching. It happens even while you're busy buying groceries and when you're fast asleep. It's a curse.

— Miriam Toews

I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.

— Wally Lamb

✗Opposing Perspectives

When I'm feeling frustrated with a story, I have faith that it's going to come. Also, when I first started writing, I wanted to write the stories that were not in my childhood, to represent people who hadn't historically been represented in literature.

— Jacqueline Woodson

I feel like I have so many stories basting in my mind, and they come busting out when they're ready.

— Maggie Stiefvater