Characters Quote by Harlan Coben

Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.

— E. L. Doctorow

Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off the outline.

— Hallie Ephron

“Writing is more than typing words: Any action that is instrumental in completing a writing project counts as writing.”

— Paul J. Silvia

Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing - none of that is writing. Writing is writing.…

— E. L. Doctorow

Writing is a mysterious activity.

— Susan Sontag

All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.

— Robert Frost

The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.

— Thomas Mann

Writing is an incessant process of discovery.

— Robert Hass

Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.

— Carlos Fuentes

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

— Thomas Berger

When you're not writing, you're not doing anything else either because everything you do goes into the writing.

— Linn Ullmann

Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.

— Edward Albee