I thought I could never write a proper book; I'd never…

I have to write in sequence and only in sequence.

— Andrew Scott

I always work from outline and almost always write out of sequence. It just works for me.

— Paul S. Kemp

After I write a sequence, I just open the script and then sit at the piano keyboard and "play" the script. (And because I…

— Jeff Britting

When I write a book, I write very cleanly from page one to the last page. I hardly ever write out of sequence.

— Gregory Maguire

A completed book exists in its entirety, although we humans read it in a time sequence from the beginning to the end. Just as…

— Russell Stannard

“What words she had thought to write on the face of the moon were washed away from her as she submerged, trying to disturb…

— Gregory Maguire

“When I got older, I still thought I could write life. I didn't understand, as my mother had just realized that evening, that it…

— Shawna Yang Ryan

I spent some time in India and thought I might write about Hinduism. But it's so far removed from my experience I couldn't even…

— Dan Brown

Poetry has always been this completely alien art to me. I am the sort of bloke who, when he gets into things, generally tries…

— Frank Skinner

“I stretched out on the bed and slept. It was twilight when I awakened and turned on the light. I felt better, no longer…

— John Fante

I always thought I'd write when I retired - when I turned 65.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I never thought I'd write, because I'd never written anything in my whole life.

— Linda Ronstadt

I thought I might write mysteries for the rest of my life.

— Jane Smiley

So I thought I should write five pages a day. And that's what I did. Eventually I had a book.

— Don Winslow

“He remembered the good times with them all, and the quarrels. They always picked the finest places to have the quarrels. And why had…

— Ernest Hemingway