Forests Quote by Alexander Chee

I keep a notebook of ideas, and sometimes ideas form in your head that you just have to write down, or you'll forget them.

— Himesh Patel

I think 90% of my ideas evaporate because I have a terrible memory and because I seem to be committed to not scribble anything…

— Junot Diaz

Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative…

— Natasha Trethewey

Now and again thousands of memories converge, harmonize, arrange themselves around a central idea in a coherent form, and I write a story.

— Katherine Anne Porter

I sometimes don't know what I'm writing when I start writing it, on some level.

— Josh Radnor

Sometimes you don’t know what you're writing until you've finished it.

— Vu Tran

Write something and leave it aside so you've practically forgotten it as much as possible, a month or so, then come back and read…

— Christine Leunens

I have learned many things in the 30 years that I have been writing.

— Isabel Allende

I have to start writing down things that happen, or I'll forget my life entirely.

— Josh Lieb

I forget the greater part of what I read, but all the same it nourishes my mind.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

I don't have my novel outlined, and I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know…

— Flannery O'Connor

I had a lot of great lakes of ignorance that I was up against, I would write what I knew in almost like islands…

— Rebecca Miller