First step Quote by Anonymous

I definitely want to direct and write - all of it.

— Billie Lourd

I began to write in the first place because I expected everything to change, and I wanted to have things in writing the way…

— William Saroyan

Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.

— Anne Lamott

Writing was my route to creative expression, and I needed to write about the things that interested me.

— Ashwin Sanghi

I have friends who are capable of writing a very rough draft and then going back and embroidering - they're sort of the cathedral…

— Karen Russell

Man, wow, there's so many things to do, so many things to write! How to even begin to get it all down and without…

— Jack Kerouac

The lovely thing about the writing life is that you can point it in any direction.

— Lawrence Wright

I released that side of things really as kind of an introduction to where I came from musically, back in the day when all…

— Zach Condon

I knew I wanted to write novels, but I could not finish what I started. The closer I got, the more ways I'd find…

— Steven Pressfield

Not having any real direction, one writer would lead me to another.

— James Franco

Since then, I have just read and read - but, that said, I suppose there is a raft of writers to whom I return…

— Penelope Lively

When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.

— Pat Barker