Filled Quote by Harold Ross

“I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or…

— Harold Ross

As a teenager I wrote to R.A. Lafferty. And he responded, too, with letters that were like R.A. Lafferty short stories, filled with elliptical…

— Neil Gaiman

“Writing is about bringing words together to fullfill a purpose!!”

— Angela Y. Hodge

Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it, putting words on paper that have never been there in…

— William Goldman

“Writers write. Period. No matter how hard it is. One word after another. Sometimes the sentences spill quickly from our fingertips, and other times…

— Debra Dixon

If you write really good material, the rest just falls into place. There's really no trick to it.

— Seth Grahame-Smith

All writing is in fact cut-ups. A collage of words read heard overheard. What else?

— William S. Burroughs

I was filling entire school notebooks with stories by Grade 3. Of course, they were double-spaced, and the handwriting was huge.

— Linwood Barclay

“Writing is like sculpturing words out of a block of imagination. Sentences chisel the story, then characters make it their own.”

— Federico Chini

One of the fascinating things about early writing on slates, on papyrus, even on early handwritten books, is for instance, there were no space…

— Nicholas G. Carr

“Writing is an act of discovery in which you peel back the layers of the story as you write it down.”

— Matt Forbeck

I spent almost two years working on this book ['March'] before we ever had a publisher, before we ever had a title. And when…

— Andrew Aydin