Block Quote by Jim Moore

I think of writing--particularly of writing picture books--as a kind of choreography. A picture book must have pace and movement and pattern. Pictures and…

— Beatrice Schenk de Regniers

When I started writing 'A Million Little Pieces,' I felt like it was the right story with the style I had been looking for,…

— James Frey

“Writing a novel is like trying to solve a jigsaw puzzle whose pieces aren't even fixed in shape. Yet, somehow, they all come together…

— Jyoti Arora

I write most of my first drafts on an old manual typewriter, a really old one. It's a big black metal "Woodstock" from about…

— Arthur Bradford

There are writers who can express in as little as twenty pages what I occasionally need as many as two for.

— Karl Kraus

“In the literary machine that Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time” constitutes, we are struck by the fact that all the parts are produced…

— Gilles Deleuze

“Oh, but clever words On pages turn to fragments, circles, points and lines And they cover them like carpets With graceful, meaningless, ornamental designs”

— Aaron Weiss

I remember when I was in graduate school and someone in workshop would say, 'I'm going to bring in a chapter of my novel.'…

— Susan Minot

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

In writing, you discover interior sonorities in words. Dipthongs sound differently beneath the pen. One hears them with their sounds divorced.

— Gaston Bachelard

When you write ,it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring then unity.

— Edwidge Danticat

“On a good day, even writing can feel like a form of collecting—of gathering words, images, and ideas and arranging them in an order…

— Amanda Petrusich