Clock Quote by Darren Aronofsky

The interesting part about the writing process is that you can never see all the way to the end, not if something is happening…

— Tom Perrotta

When a writer makes something, it's theirs forever. That is the magic for me.

— Ellen Gallagher

I write in a very strange way. Things are very fragmentary for a very long time, and then they come together very quickly near…

— Todd Rundgren

I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would…

— A. E. van Vogt

“What makes it is when you go over the whole piece each day from the start to where you go on from rewriting it…

— Paul Hendrickson

My writing process has changed because it's harder to find uninterrupted time.

— Ann Patchett

Writing is like sausage making in my view; you'll all be happier in the end if you just eat the final product without knowing…

— Anonymous

I have rewritten — often several times — every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers.

— Vladimir Nabokov

When you're writing something that is truly original it takes time.

— Daniel Lissing

This experience of getting so lost in my writing that I lose track of time, or of anything outside the imagined world, is a…

— David Ignatius

“When your story is written on a piece of paper and that paper gets crumpled up and thrown into a shredder, you can piece…

— Ker Dukey

Every kind of book I've written has been written in a different way. There has not been any set time for writing, any set…

— Irvine Welsh