I wanted to write it long before I wrote Every Night…

“Don't save it till the night before," she said, sitting on her desk and swinging her legs. "It will read like you wrote it…

— Rainbow Rowell

The main riff for 'SandMan' was just something I wrote one night.

— Kirk Hammett

“And he was like, “No, no, I really think we ought to do that.” And I was like, “We don't have time!” So he…

— Peter Seibel

If you write something in the evening or at night, look back over it the next morning. I tend to be less self-critical at…

— Mark-Anthony Turnage

I cannot write long books; I leave that for those who have nothing to say.

— Celia Green

I remember when I was in graduate school and someone in workshop would say, 'I'm going to bring in a chapter of my novel.'…

— Susan Minot

I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel.…

— Anne Tyler

I write very raw, ugly, illiterate first drafts very quickly (novels are always in first draft in under a year) and then I spend…

— Porochista Khakpour

“I’ve wanted to write about them for a long while, but it’s a tricky subject, always put off for later and perhaps worthy of…

— Wisława Szymborska

“They could not write their names, but I can write mine, and I will again, somewhere where it will last for a long, long…

— Ally Condie

I can write for a long time on one novel and not get tired.

— Judith Guest

I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant.

— Anonymous

I've been trying to write for as long as I can remember. But those first fifteen years didn't produce much of great interest. I…

— Kingsley Amis

I love to read long books. I enjoy experiencing that extension. But it's not something I feel comfortable with and not something I think…

— Shane McCrae

If I write too much of anything for too long, I burn out on it. So it helps to vary my output from year…

— Charles Stross