Come up Quote by Janet Fitch

When I begin to write a story, I usually know how things will end. It's the journey toward that point I must discover. The…

— Kimberly Willis Holt

Writing is always a process of discovery—I never know the end, or even the events on the next page, until they happen. There’s a…

— Kim Edwards

“I am a storyteller, for better and for worse. I suspect that a feeling for stories, for narrative, is a universal human disposition, going…

— Oliver Sacks

I think that, as a writer, while it's your job to construct stories, you have to navigate your way through them with your heart.

— Abi Morgan

For me the experience of writing is really an experience of losing control.... I think it's very much like dreaming or like surfing. You…

— Margaret Atwood

Writing is mysterious, and it's supposed to be...any path that gets you there is a good path in the end. But one true thing…

— Andrea Barrett

Writing is a journey of discovery because until you start, you never know what will happen, and you can be surprised by what you…

— Mini Grey

While writing, you are more interested in seeing what happens with you in the process, because all that writing is just you sorting through…

— Oz Perkins

Writing is really a way of thinking--not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.

— Toni Morrison

I try not to think too much about my writing process - I tend to feel my way forward and find more insights that…

— Nick Petrie

A writer is always, always searching, even against her will, against all her better instincts, for the thread of a story. Everything is fodder.…

— Miriam Toews

“Writing is a form of intense thinking that takes a person on a journey into previously uncharted territory of the writer’s mind.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster