Fifth Quote by Jane Yolen

When you have been writing for a lot of years, you have to make an effort not to start repeating yourself. It occurred to…

— Merrill Markoe

Lots of times I'm not crazy about the writing, but I keep moving ahead and somehow it gets better. The important thing is to…

— Janet Evanovich

I have a tendency sometimes to get too logical with what I'm writing, just because I want it to be kind of perfect.

— John Cleese

When I write a book, I write very cleanly from page one to the last page. I hardly ever write out of sequence.

— Gregory Maguire

Writing is like everything else: the more you do it the better you get. Don't try to perfect as you go along, just get…

— Iain Banks

I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then I type…

— Paul Auster

It takes me a long time to write, and I trust myself, so I write very sparsely, so when I do, I know it's…

— Earl Sweatshirt

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than…

— Ernest Hemingway

Writing for me always requires trickery. Tricking myself into sitting down, letting words tumble out until you find the good ones. It's sort of…

— John Hodgman

When I write I try as far as possible to forget I'm writing it at all. I tell it down onto the page, as…

— Michael Morpurgo

When I write, it's almost like it really sets in my brain. I don't ever go back and read it.

— Jon Rahm

The first draft of everything, I write longhand. One of the nice things about that is that it makes you keep going. If you…

— Jonathan Dee