Firsts Quote by Betty Smith

It takes a long, long time to write what I do write.

— Joseph O'Neill

It takes me ages to write stuff.

— Chris Lilley

Sometimes you don’t know what you're writing until you've finished it.

— Vu Tran

When you start to write, things begin to come into focus in a way they don't when you're not writing. It's a very good…

— David McCullough

Ultimately, you can only ever write what you know. It's logically and philosophically impossible to write what you don't know.

— Colum McCann

When you're writing something that is truly original it takes time.

— Daniel Lissing

If you can stand to wait 24 hours before you decide the fate of what you have written - either good or bad -…

— Lynda Barry

'Write what you know' works, but it's limiting. Write what fascinates you. Write what you can't stop thinking about.

— Brian Koppelman

If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.

— Stephen King

Learning to write is learning to think. You don't know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing.

— S. I. Hayakawa

Writing is a process of discovery of what you really do know. You can't limit yourself in advance to what you know, because you…

— Walter Murch

There's a lot of ignorance about how long it takes to write a novel. There's a lot of ignorance about how long a novel…

— John Irving