Inventory Quote by Dion DiMucci

“First, you need something to organize: ideas, material, scraps of expertise, recipes, prognostications, anecdotes, scurrilous gossip, anything that might be relevant to what you…

— Patricia T. O'Conner

The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.

— Jerzy Kosinski

What you're trying to do when you write is to crowd the reader out of his own space and occupy it with yours, in…

— Robert Stone

My job is to form the people, the story, the sentences. Every reader will bring their own life and their own history to the…

— Amy Bloom

A writer has to write something that they're - sit down with or are interested in every day of their life.

— Charles Bock

Writing is like a bird-watcher watching for birds: the stories are there: you just have to train yourself to look for them.

— Barbara Mertz

It's part of the business of really not caring about topping myself because I really don't care what's going to happen. I think just…

— Rod Serling

Writers know that sometimes things are there in the drawer for decades before they finally come out and you are capable of writing about…

— Gunter Grass

I just write what I think is funny, or interesting, and hopefully everything else will take care of itself. There's no strategy to anything.

— Romesh Ranganathan

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

You have to be rather relentless about pushing other things out of the way. This activity of writing, which has no promises attached to…

— W. S. Merwin

My mission as a writer is to give my readers hope to carry with them, and to promote a belief that they can do…

— Wendelin Van Draanen