Carver Quote by Annie Dillard

When you write, you lay out a line of words. Soon you find yourself deep in new territory.

— Annie Dillard

So much of writing is discovery. Sometimes I feel like a rat in a maze, trying to discover the way out. My little heart…

— Will Hobbs

“In this dark and wounded society, writing can give you the pleasures of the woodpecker, of hollowing out a hole in a tree where…

— Anne Lamott

Writing is like mining for gold hidden in the hillsides of your mind.

— David Baboulene

Writing will be like a journey, every word a footstep that takes me further into undiscovered land.

— David Almond

In fiction, you have a rough idea what's coming up next - sometimes you even make a little outline - but in fact you…

— Peter Matthiessen

“Now we are going to make a new-way path. So you take a shovel, you take a ground-haker, you take a hairpin and you…

— Sherry Ruth Anderson

Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for…

— Eudora Welty

“Writing is a manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.”

— John Gregory Dunne

“The journey from the head to the hand is perilous and lined with bodies. It is the road on which nearly everyone who wants…

— Ann Patchett

I don't know what I'm going to write when I begin to write. It feels like you are walking down a path, but you…

— Paul Simon

It's a discovery of a story when I write a book, a case of inching ahead on each page and discovering what's beyond in…

— Michael Ondaatje