Books Quote by Dana Spiotta

For me, the process of writing a novel happens mostly in your head before you actually start writing.

— Dan Chaon

Novel writing, like so many things in life, is an iterative process. You come at it again and again, working at it like you…

— Kameron Hurley

Writing is a way of drifting within my own mind: almost a solitary process, so to speak.

— Twinkle Khanna

I am not a particularly natural writer. I am not a person who can write in paragraphs the way some writers do. For me,…

— Yann Martel

In my experience, writing a novel tends to create its own structure, its own demands, its own language, its own ending.

— Don DeLillo

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

I write a lot in my head. The revision goes on internally. It's not spontaneous and it doesn't have a schedule.

— Jamaica Kincaid

Ideally, writing ought to be like riding a bicycle: something you know how to do without having to think consciously about exactly what it…

— Brian Stableford

Writing is a concentrated form of thinking...a young writer sees that with words he can place himself more clearly into the world. Words on…

— Don DeLillo

Many novice writers, students in particular, think that writing is little more than copying down their self-talk, the palaver of the voices they hear…

— Richard Rhodes

Writing is really a way of thinking--not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.

— Toni Morrison

Generally, my writing is influenced by living, by absorbing everything that happens to me and my actions.

— Graham Nash