Direct Quote by John Paul Caponigro

If so much of your experience is devoted to the thought of documentation, you're already sort of spinning out this narrative from this moment…

— Ted Leo

The obsessive documentation is itself adjacent to hyper-consumption in our society. The desire to just have everything all the time and adjacent to that…

— Ted Leo

Once you start rewriting, you're not able to stop. With each draft the fundamental banality and worthlessness of the material becomes more evident even…

— Barry N. Malzberg

I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered !My life is my own.

— Number 6

I am always trying to 'preserve' things by getting other people to read what I have written, and feel what I felt.

— Philip Larkin

If somebody asked for the first draft of something I'd written, it'd probably be pretty close to whatever got published. I get enjoyment out…

— Chuck Klosterman

People begin to write in order to create what they have not found and, a little bit, to give something back.

— Dorothy Allison

Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I…

— Paul Auster

I think it starts to feel really redundant when you start to do something the same way over and over again. I don't think…

— Brie Larson

You have to be able to invest in your own creations, to suspend your own disbelief in order to be able to write them.…

— Alastair Reynolds

I tend to write things and review it afterwards and realise what comes out. I very rarely ever write something and have to take…

— Ellie Goulding

That was my fear, which is why when I was took over a book, I was always trying to tweak it a little bit…

— Todd McFarlane