Before Quote by Anna Todd

I don't think I could have written what I did any earlier.

— Terry Goodkind

I didn't write because I had anything to say, but in order to find out what there was to say.

— Eugene H. Peterson

My experience as a writer is that you really do write seven and eight pages to find the paragraph you were after all along.

— Anne Lamott

If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.

— Anne Tyler

I started writing as soon as I started reading.

— Michael Koryta

While I was an addict, I didn't write anything. I didn't have the attention span or the will.

— David Crosby

I'm writing all the time, I never stopped writing.

— Adrian Dunbar

I write - and then I write some more.

— Frank Delaney

But it was too early to know: there were always more pages to go, more words to be written, before the story was over.

— Sarah Dessen

I have written chiefly because, though I have often dreaded the necessity, I have found it more painful, in the end, not to write.

— Ellen Glasgow

I very rarely write anything before what I see what I'm writing for.

— Henry Mancini

Since I stopped writing, I read more than ever. Other people's words, not my own - my words are gone.

— Jennifer Niven