Character Quote by Amor Towles

A novel, basically, is writing one sentence — then, without violating the scope of the first one, writing the next sentence.

— Anonymous

The first thing to ask when writing a sentence is 'What am I trying to do?'

— Stanley Fish

“I can still remember the miraculous feeling of writing a sentence, then more sentences, telling a story. The first thing I wrote was a…

— Henning Mankell

There's a marvelous sense of mastery that comes with writing a sentence that sounds exactly as you want it to. It's like trying to…

— Susan Orlean

“[I]t's the child writer who has figured out, early on, that writing is about saving your soul.”

— Betsy Lerner

“• “To us today, it is tempting to ask why societies with early writing systems accepted the ambiguities that restricted writing to a few…

— Jared Diamond

“Depressing realization sets in. Writing was invented not by human beings but by accountants. Most of the early writing systems are records of how…

— Philip Hensher

I realized early on in writing the book that it needed to be from a family point of view, and that nobody outside the…

— Mary Kay Zuravleff

“At some point you’re going to have to formulate your copy, and if you do it early, it will keep you from writing a…

— James Scott Bell

As anthropomorphic and surreal people have said my early writing was, to me it was really stock and almost banal in the sense that…

— Devendra Banhart

One of the fascinating things about early writing on slates, on papyrus, even on early handwritten books, is for instance, there were no space…

— Nicholas G. Carr

In my early writing, all of my characters were exactly the same person. They all spoke the same, made the same types of jokes,…

— James Dashner