Engines Quote by Donald Hall

“Every so often I'll hear writers say that there are other writers they would read if for no other reason than to marvel at…

— Francine Prose

There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.

— J. K. Rowling

In time I began to understand that it's when you start writing that you really find out what you don't know and need to…

— David McCullough

The complicated engines manufactured by men demand, if one really wants to use them, much calm. Ever since our love for machines replaced the…

— Man Ray

There are many things I’ve written that I didn’t really understand until a long time later.

— Harry Mathews

The writing process is very much like being in a dark tunnel, and you don't really know what you will end up with until…

— Emily Haines

Writing has been a way of explaining to myself the things I do not understand.

— Rosario Castellanos

The writing process, it's too mysterious to try and describe.

— Mick Jones

In [my] life ... I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated piece of mechanism - man.

— Andrew Carnegie

I want to explain to people by working hard, but people doesn't understand that what I wrote.

— Mak_786

“There is an immense amount to be learned simply by tinkering with things. It is not possible to learn from books how everything is…

— Henry Ford

You have to have some kind of clarity or understanding of what's happening to write.

— Benjamin Booker