About Quote by Candace Bushnell

Writing fiction, I really just sit there and it just comes.

— Alexander McCall Smith

My writing process is ritualized and monotonous, but there's no other way to get the job done. All other fiction writers I've met say…

— Douglas Coupland

I write totally spontaneously. I actually write fiction by hand - that always seems to startle people. I think the reason I do that…

— Jennifer Egan

Fiction has always been a thorn in my side, because I've always wanted to be a writer but I can't seem to really do…

— Sufjan Stevens

My writing life is pretty simple - I try to work every day, almost always in the mornings - and I can only write…

— Jonathan Lethem

I've been writing fiction as long as I've been writing poetry. It's just that the poetry took off, and it took me a lot…

— Barbara Hamby

I am not one of those writers that it just flows out of effortlessly. I have to sit and write and rewrite and sometimes…

— Princess Superstar

I don't know that any writing comes easily, but I certainly get more immersed in novels. I don't think the routine is any different,…

— Jess Walter

Starting writing is stressful and scary and hard, but also, it's just like going to the gym. You're just stiff and weird, and you…

— Tamara Jenkins

Once I start writing, I can't stop.

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

Sit down every day and DO IT. Writing is a self-taught craft; the more you work at it, the more skilled you become. And…

— Lois Duncan