Ifs Quote by Jane Espenson

Writing is like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate, in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain

— Elie Wiesel

Most writing is done between the mind and the hand, not between the hand and the page.

— Janet Burroway

I start my process hand written, and then I dump it in. It's like you're getting a second draft 'cause when I put it…

— Gerard Way

Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more…

— Elie Wiesel

I like to always stop with a couple of pages that I haven't - that are just raw copy, where I haven't touched it,…

— Stephen King

I have gotten everything from a one-page letter written in pencil to a 50-page computer generated masterpiece.

— Ron Pearson

I know that sounds ineffective and daunting, but it [throw hundreds of pages away] is actually my favorite part of the writing process.

— Megan Chance

I write dozens and dozens of pages more than I need, and then edit them down to size. It's more like sculpture than construction.

— Grant Morrison

I think being a writer was a crappy job when you just had typewriters. It was crappy when we just had ink and paper.…

— Colson Whitehead

The most important thing in writing is to have written. I can always fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank one.

— Nora Roberts

I've always written by hand. Mostly with a fountain pen, but sometimes with a pencil - especially for corrections.

— Paul Auster

If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.

— Victor Hugo