Firsts Quote by Franz Kafka

I spend a lot of time outlining before I write the first word.

— John Grisham

A lot of your mental energy goes to figuring out where does one word end and the next begin.

— Nicholas G. Carr

When I write something, every word of it is meant. I can't say it enough.

— Anne Rice

As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall…

— Candace Bushnell

As Im writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall…

— Candace Bushnell

In good writing, words become one with things.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Susan Griffin describes it as a time when "there is no intrinsic authority to my words." "I...clean off my desk. I make telephone calls.…

— Judith Barrington

So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.

— George Berkeley

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

— Ernest Hemingway

Words have always swirled around me like snowflakes-each one delicate and different, each one melting untouched in my hand.

— Sharon M Draper

Words have always swirled around me like snowflakes-each one delicate and different, each one melting untouched in my hands.

— Sharon M. Draper

All I am is the trick of words writing themselves.

— Anne Sexton