Details Quote by Ernest Hemingway

If a writer stops observing, he is finished.

— Ernest Hemingway

If a writer stops observing he is finished. But he does not have to observe consciously nor think how it will be useful. Perhaps…

— Ernest Hemingway

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

It is my feeling that a story is not finished until it is read, and that the reader finishes it through his or her…

— Annie Proulx

It is my feeling that a story is not finished until it is read, and that the reader finishes it through his or her…

— Annie Proulx

“Writers don’t get time off. Every moment - waking or sleeping - a writer is working, observing, thinking and creating.”

— Graeme Roberts

As a writer, I write to see. If I knew how it would end, I wouldn't write. It's a process of discovery.

— John McGahern

Writing is always a process of discovery—I never know the end, or even the events on the next page, until they happen. There’s a…

— Kim Edwards

Writers are first and foremost observers. We lose ourselves in the watching and then the telling of the world we find. Often we feel…

— Lisa Unger

Writers, some of us, may tend to see things before other people do, things that are right there but aren't noticed in the way…

— Don DeLillo

Writing itself does not know what it looks like while one is doing it, only when it's finished.

— Herta Muller

If you remain unsettled by a piece of writing, it means you are not watching the story from the outside; you've already taken a…

— Daniel Day-Lewis