Bigs Quote by Claude Simon

And after a while, you just pare things down more and more and more, until you get to certain basic things which just -…

— Robert Barry

Perhaps the hardest thing I've learned, and still struggle with, is that I don't have to be finished in order to be whole.

— Mark Nepo

Normally I work out a general summary of what I mean to do, then start writing, and the details can be different from my…

— Piers Anthony

I take some pains to learn the material beforehand. I have a bunch of tricks I use to try and hit the ground running.…

— Colm Feore

I sort of always like to write starting with when I learned how.

— Daniel Pinkwater

When faced with something complex, spend the time to think about some structure, write down sentences, think about it some more, and then share…

— Steven Sinofsky

My natural tendency is to complicate everything--and then to spray words and ideas onto everything afterwards. I've had to develop the habit of keeping…

— Anne Lamott

Sometimes I start a sentence and I don't know where I'm going with it and I just pray it'll find its way¦

— Me

I start in the middle of a sentence and move both directions at once.

— John Coltrane

I have a hard time revising sentences, because I spend an inordinate amount of time on each sentence, and the sentence before it, and…

— Chang-Rae Lee

Concentrate on each task, whether trivial or crucial, as if it's the only thing that matters.

— Mark McCormack

I have to really think hard about how to structure sentences, and do more mapping when I sit down to write, so it does…

— Daniel Alarcon