Couple Quote by Chelsea Martin

“If you give a writer a line, they'll take a paragraph…”

— Suzanne McKenna Link

My experience as a writer is that you really do write seven and eight pages to find the paragraph you were after all along.

— Anne Lamott

I often have to write a hundred pages or more before there's a paragraph that's alive.

— Philip Roth

If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn't really count as narrative.

— Tim Vine

When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.

— Pat Barker

Longhand isn't well suited to my way of writing. I tend to end up with dozens of pages of crossings-out and margin scribbles just…

— Steven Hall

I'm a big fan of outlining. Here's the theory: If I outline, then I can see the mistakes I'm liable to make. They come…

— Cynthia Voigt

I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it, getting the…

— William Devane

The benefit of this kind of outlining is that you discover a story's flaws before you invest a lot of time writing the first…

— George Stephen

I know that sounds ineffective and daunting, but it [throw hundreds of pages away] is actually my favorite part of the writing process.

— Megan Chance

I write down portions, maybe fragments, and perhaps an imperfect view of what Im hoping to write. Out of that, I keep trying to…

— James Salter

I start with an idea that is no more than a paragraph long, and expand it slowly into an outline. But I'm always surprised…

— Barry Schwartz