Language Quote by Aidan Chambers

I write, fighting for every sentence, fighting to hold the reader with every paragraph.

— Hector Tobar

One of the most difficult things is the first paragraph. I have spent many months on a first paragraph, and once I get it,…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A lot of times, I write and have to scrap it. You don't know what I'm talking about because the words are too much,…

— Earl Sweatshirt

I often have to write a hundred pages or more before there's a paragraph that's alive.

— Philip Roth

Some days, you will sit down, and you write tens of thousands of words. Others, you have to force yourself to write a single…

— Sylvia Day

“We throw in as many fresh words as we can get away with. Simple, short sentences don't always work. You have to do tricks…

— Dr. Seuss

I am starting to get tired of relying on words.

— David Levithan

I find it easier to write about stuff that is frustrating.

— Sigrid

When things are going well, I can't write fast enough to keep up with my mind. Writing walks, speech runs and talk flies. Other…

— Dylan Moran

It's just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy reading. Something better be happening at the beginning, and then on every…

— Jonathan Franzen

Everything I write, I read aloud. It has to sound a certain way and look a certain way on page.

— Jacqueline Woodson

I have to read once a day, or I become cranky.

— Jenna Blum