Courses Quote by Carolyn Heilbrun

Writing is always a process of discovery—I never know the end, or even the events on the next page, until they happen. There’s a…

— Kim Edwards

“A writer writes. There are no exceptions to this reality. No excuses. Stop wasting time talking about your stories and get them on paper.”

— Christy Hall

“Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of…

— Eudora Welty

“Writing is an act of discovery in which you peel back the layers of the story as you write it down.”

— Matt Forbeck

A writer always writes.

— Don Roff

“If you're a writer you're bound to write something fine, at least now and then, off and on.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

I always say that if you're a novelist, the challenge is not writing what you think ought to happen, but trying in some way…

— Neil Gaiman

What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.

— Ernest Hemingway

A writer is always, always searching, even against her will, against all her better instincts, for the thread of a story. Everything is fodder.…

— Miriam Toews

A writer is an organism that will go on writing even after its heart has been cut out.

— Wallace Stegner

“Being a writer is an amazing job, but we’re all writers, most of us just forget to put our stories down on paper.”

— Colette Freedman

Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with…

— William Shatner