Done Quote by Douglas Coupland

At the end of the day, I think the only way to do the kind of job a writer does is push everything aside…

— Marc Guggenheim

Fiction has always been a thorn in my side, because I've always wanted to be a writer but I can't seem to really do…

— Sufjan Stevens

I've been writing fiction probably since I was about 6 years old, so it's something that is second nature to me now. I just…

— Candace Bushnell

I am not one of those writers that it just flows out of effortlessly. I have to sit and write and rewrite and sometimes…

— Princess Superstar

Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes…

— Joan Didion

If what needs to get done is going to get done, then I can't screw around with the luxury of writing rituals or waiting…

— Paul G. Tremblay

Whether it is done quickly or slowly, however splendid the results, the process of writing fiction is inherently, inevitably, indistinguishable from wasting time.

— Deborah Eisenberg

My writing process is very organic. I start with an idea. I have the general story arc and the cast. But then I sit…

— Sarah Addison Allen

I don't know that any writing comes easily, but I certainly get more immersed in novels. I don't think the routine is any different,…

— Jess Walter

Being a fiction writer is really like being an actor, because if you're going to write convincingly it has to sound right and play…

— Ridley Pearson

Writing fiction, I really just sit there and it just comes.

— Alexander McCall Smith

My writing life is pretty simple - I try to work every day, almost always in the mornings - and I can only write…

— Jonathan Lethem