As I tell my intro creative writing students, after…

I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.

— Alan Garner

Writing is harder than anything else; at least starting to write is.

— Kristin Hunter

I start my process hand written, and then I dump it in. It's like you're getting a second draft 'cause when I put it…

— Gerard Way

I do have trouble starting books. I have ideas that I have trouble starting to write. But I'm the kind of person who tends…

— Cynthia Voigt

I'm really interested in starting to write my own songs. I never really did, but hopefully I will because I'm so interested in writing…

— Danielle Bradbery

“After reading someone you love, wait at least an hour before starting to write”

— Matty Healy

That's one of the things about comedy that annoys me the most from a comedian perspective. Comedy has gotten so segregated. Now it's like…

— Michael Che

We had just played a sold-out show and it had been a fun night when we heard the news. It brought everything back to…

— Brendan Bayliss

When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied…

— Wallace Shawn

When you write what you know, you stay in control. One of the first things I encourage my writing students to do is to…

— Natalie Goldberg

I always tell my writing students that every good piece of writing begins with both a mystery and a love story. And that every…

— Silas House

“We are writing in the age of stylish minimalism that in truth has become even more cautious because of word processing. Nowadays, creative writing…

— Stephen Kuusisto

It's very hard to find good and wholesome, edifying and challenging writing for the students to perform. In my classroom I strive to do…

— Patricia Mauceri

To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.

— Garry Disher

Pace is crucial. Fine writing isn't enough. Writing students can be great at producing a single page of well-crafted prose; what they sometimes lack…

— Rose Tremain