Carpet Quote by Bruce Joel Rubin

If you write really good material, the rest just falls into place. There's really no trick to it.

— Seth Grahame-Smith

My writing time needs to surround itself with empty stretches, or at least unpeopled ones, for the writing takes place in an area of…

— Maxine Kumin

When I'm writing something, everything falls into place. When I'm not writing, stuff keeps happening to me, and there's nowhere to put it all.

— Sally Rooney

What I find is that many times when I work with chance, with indeterminacy, I am more open to experience, less prone to a…

— Sergio Chejfec

“When your story is written on a piece of paper and that paper gets crumpled up and thrown into a shredder, you can piece…

— Ker Dukey

When people say "How do you write a book, how does it all happen?" I say, you line things up, and you line them…

— Terry Pratchett

The trick to writer's block is to sack up and write through it, you see.

— Jeph Jacques

To me, writing is a very physical process. I lay out the entire book with the two narratives side by side on my bedroom…

— Erik Larson

I feel like you just need to keep writing until the writing itself just begins to take shape.

— Ed Westwick

Writing is like bricklaying; you put down one word after another. Sometimes the wall goes up straight and true and sometimes it doesn't and…

— Geraldine Brooks

I used to be an obsessive outliner - figuring that writing without an outline was like jumping off a cliff and building a parachute…

— Robin Wasserman

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