About Quote by Jimmy O. Yang

The one thing that does happen, every time, though, is that I never get to write a book until I've already been thinking about…

— Charles Stross

For me, the process of writing a novel happens mostly in your head before you actually start writing.

— Dan Chaon

I started writing as soon as I started reading.

— Michael Koryta

Writing is always a way, for me, of coming to some sort of understanding that I can't reach otherwise.It forces you to think. It…

— Joan Didion

My writing has always been a rather non-linear process. I've found if I get something down, I can listen to it and other things…

— Pauline Oliveros

When I'm writing, I try not to think things like, 'Gosh, I have to finish writing this book.' Books are very long and it's…

— Linda Sue Park

I used to like reading and you read enough books and you overflow and then you start writing.

— Terry Pratchett

Writing, for me, is an extension of thinking - it's my way of processing, and only when I've gotten something down on the page…

— Celeste Ng

I do a lot of mental work before I ever start writing.

— Anna Quindlen

After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write a book…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

I sit down and I write what I'm thinking and what I feel - it happens all at once, I never stop writing.

— Lydia Hearst

I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into…

— Laurell K. Hamilton