Different Quote by Fran Lebowitz

Some days, you will sit down, and you write tens of thousands of words. Others, you have to force yourself to write a single…

— Sylvia Day

I write every paragraph four times - once to get my meaning down, once to put in anything I have left out, once to…

— Margery Allingham

I am not a particularly natural writer. I am not a person who can write in paragraphs the way some writers do. For me,…

— Yann Martel

I write different kinds of sentences, depending on what the book is, and what the project is. I see my work evolving. I'm writing…

— Paul Auster

I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a single sentence…

— Michael Cunningham

I try and get it right the first time. I may rewrite a sentence four or five times, but I rarely go back and…

— Matt Ridley

I write, fighting for every sentence, fighting to hold the reader with every paragraph.

— Hector Tobar

I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then I type…

— Paul Auster

Now the writing in the head, I definitely do every day, thinking about how I want to phrase something or how I'd like to…

— Stanley Crouch

When I write a paper, I change my notation much more than I change my concepts.

— Leslie Lamport

I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and turn…

— Philip Roth

I start in the middle of a sentence and move both directions at once.

— John Coltrane