Across Quote by Antony Beevor

The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son's materials.

— Afeni Shakur

What I try to do - and I think this is the former librarian in me - is to get primary source material.

— Theresa Breslin

After I finish writing a chapter, I'll print it out, cut it up into paragraphs, and cut away any transition sentences. Then I shuffle…

— Erik Larson

The more work you put in on your outline and getting the skeleton of your story right, the easier the process is later.

— Drew Goddard

I don't have a trunk of manuscripts.

— Henry Mancini

In the course of writing one historical book or another, it has happened that I could hardly restrain myself from simply copying entire documents.…

— Alfred Doblin

I realized the importance of archiving. So I save key pieces from my collections, as well as any red-carpet things that become iconic. I…

— Jason Wu

There's an outline for each of the books that I adhere to pretty closely, but I'm not averse to taking it in a new…

— Justin Cronin

I steal things from people, characteristics, and I just stock them in my head like a library to use for characters in the future.

— Luke Mably

I just write stuff down and pile it up, and when I get enough stuff, I spread it out and look at it and…

— August Wilson

I wrote the first draft of my first novel at Michigan, and then I wrote the first draft of 'Salvage the Bones' at Stanford.…

— Jesmyn Ward

I have a lot of stuff. Slowly I'm getting all my materials organized.

— Ian MacKaye