Air Quote by Billy Collins

I can't start writing until I have a closing line.

— Joseph Heller

As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall…

— Candace Bushnell

When I'm writing, sometimes it gets to that place where I feel like the piece is writing itself and I'm trying not to get…

— John Zorn

As Im writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall…

— Candace Bushnell

Why do I find it hard to write the next line?

— Gary Kemp

Because I'm not writing all the time (thank goodness), my mind is sometimes pleasantly blank.

— Lydia Davis

You get used to the exact amount of space between lines. You write a word and then you write an alternate word over it.…

— Stephen Sondheim

If you think about writing a book, or when I did, it seems daunting, but when I began writing, it just started flowing.

— Jimmy O. Yang

You know that gap between where you are and where you'd like to be? Within that gap, there is an ache and an aspirational…

— Amanda Harlech

How do I start writing a book? I sit there, I come up with an opening line, and then I go little by little.…

— Nick Tosches

One of the things that has always motivated me to write is the desire to get it out and look at it in an…

— Carly Simon

Feels like I'm in a play and I don't know all my lines.

— Lisa McMann