Beforehand Quote by Colm Feore

After I work with my editor to get the manuscript in good shape, I sketch and lay out a whole book loosely, usually in…

— Adam Rex

I do a lot of revising on paper. Sometimes I think I should just write longhand - what I type reads very different once…

— Sara Shepard

Most of the writing that I do is a complete train of thought process. I'll just be walking down the street or sitting on…

— St. Lucia

Writing for me always requires trickery. Tricking myself into sitting down, letting words tumble out until you find the good ones. It's sort of…

— John Hodgman

I just write stuff down and pile it up, and when I get enough stuff, I spread it out and look at it and…

— August Wilson

I generally have a real strong idea or a strong punchline, and I just try to get to it by rambling around, as I…

— Norm MacDonald

I'm always looking at ways of shaking up the writing experience because I think it helps.

— Michael Connelly

After 20 years of writing academic prose and lectures, it seems very familiar and straightforward to me. Writing a novel for the first time,…

— Deborah Harkness

I usually write things in my head before I ever write them down. When I write it out, usually I've already figured out what…

— Joss Whedon

I sometimes don't know what I'm writing when I start writing it, on some level.

— Josh Radnor

Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as…

— William Faulkner

When you have no idea what to do or how to do it, you just need to see and absorb as much as you…

— Miguel McKelvey