Arise Quote by George Saunders

Form is, in a way, death. A novelist's obligation is to break free from the form, even though he knows that this will also…

— Karl Ove Knausgaard

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

I've found you can go on writing in the dark, and that the act of writing itself, that mysterious, dangerous, intoxicating, absorbing, nourishing magician's…

— Janette Turner Hospital

“as Flannery O’Connor put it, “In the act of writing, one sees that the way a thing is made, controls and is inseparable from…

— Sarah Arthur

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

— Mick Jones

Sometimes an old idea gets relegated to the back of the line in the mad delight of a new idea, one you've never had…

— Neil Gaiman

I was in the hospital and I was paralyzed and I went through all of these things. I've had all of these crazy experiences…

— Steve Toltz

It's not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from…

— Anton Chekhov

The thing is, with writing, it's form or content. You need to write about something interesting or you need to write about it in…

— Mara Wilson

It is the form the idea takes in the imagination rather than the form as it exists outside.

— Arthur Dove

Writing of the narrative kind, and perhaps all writing, is motivated deep down, by a fear or and fascination with mortality - by a…

— Margaret Atwood

Form is any aspect of a poem that encourages it to stay whole and not drift off into chaos.

— Billy Collins