“Writing is the act of discovery.”
“Writing is an act of discovery in which you peel back the layers of the story as you write it down.”
“Writing is both an act of power and surrender. Passion and discovery. It is a tug at your soul that continues to pull you forward, even as you go kicking and screaming.” (p.18)”
“Writing is more about discovery than invention.”
“There is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.”
“The act of imagination is the opening of the system so that it shows new connections. Every act of act of imagination is the discovery of likenesses between two things which were thought unlike. An example is Newton’s thinking of the likeness between the thrown apple and moon sailing majestically in the sky. Hence, the ‘discovery’ of the laws of gravity.”