Eight Quote by Anne Lamott

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

— Philip Roth

The difference between a writer who toughs it out and one who doesn't is that you push through the parts where you know that…

— Anne Lamott

The more fiction you read and write, the more you'll find your paragraphs forming on their own.

— Stephen King

I also write the last paragraph or page of a story first. That way I always know what I'm working towards.

— Truman Capote

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

— Don Winslow

Any kind of writing that's meaningful becomes hard work, so there were times when it would really flow, there were times when I'd get…

— Steve Guttenberg

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

You don't write a book. You write a sentence and then a paragraph and then a page and then a chapter. Looking at writing…

— Rebecca Serle

I figure 1000 words a day, or four pages, and sometimes I'll write more, but I'll try not to. Because I think you don't…

— Carolyn See

Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.

— Patricia Reilly Giff

It is a little out of touch to presume that someone wants to follow your every observation and insight over the course of hundreds…

— Christopher Bollen

It's always the paragraphs I loved most, the ones I tenderly polished and re-read with pride, that my editor will suggest cutting.

— Liane Moriarty