French revolution Quote by Hilary Mantel

“...and always the cutting out and the buggering about and the buggering about and the rewriting and so on...”

— Basil Bunting

“Concentrate on the text for the moment: the other parts will fall into place in time.”

— Matthew Johnson

“You can make a text mean anything, especially if it’s old and full of ambiguities.”

— Arturo Pérez-Reverte

“Sometimes things just got too complicated. Something unwanted was added to something wanted and blew the whole thing apart.”

— Josh Malerman

“Yes - I've learned from my mistakes, and I'm sure I could repeat them perfectly.”

— Jonathan Coe

“I'm left with a mouthful of words that wouldn't have made a difference anyway.”

— Ashley Herring Blake

“sometime... there should be outburst of words to avoid complication.”

— Upasana Banerjee

“I'm following it perfectly. Although, if this were a novel, I'd take the trouble to reread the last paragraph as carefully as possible.”

— César Aira

“That's the beauty of the text, I find. You can key in things you would never say, and it hardly hurts a bit.”

— Chris Lynch

“There were so many things I wanted to say at once if the words would just get out of each other's way. "Fine.”

— Ilona Andrews

“Stop messing about and get back to writing.”

— Craig Allan Teich

“My style might seem awkward, but I'm only trying to write down the things in the scene that I think the reader should know.”

— Hemingway