Fun Quote by Ken Follett

Now I rewrite more and more severely, and I take great pleasure in cutting thousands of words out of first drafts; I think that's…

— Ramsey Campbell

The bottom line is that I like my first drafts to be blind, unconscious, messy efforts; that's what gets me the best material.

— Jennifer Egan

The more work you put in on your outline and getting the skeleton of your story right, the easier the process is later.

— Drew Goddard

The writing is always the easy part, provided I can get the good material. It's the getting of the good material that's a challenge.

— Mary Roach

I'm not much of an outliner in general. I tend to wing my way through all my drafts, which means writing a series is…

— Marie Lu

I work sometimes from outlines, which are immediately abandoned. Sometimes, when I'm trying to find the characters, I'll sketch things out a bit. Sometimes,…

— Paul Rudnick

When I have a first draft, I have a floor under my feet that I can walk on. Then, especially with the help of…

— Philip Roth

Hands down, the hardest part for me is coming up with an idea. I spend about 14 months writing a book, and that's a…

— Kristin Hannah

I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down.

— Nora Roberts

When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.

— Pat Barker

I don't like re-writing very much. The fourth and the fifth draft - that's too much like work. There's not much inspiration about it,…

— Scott Turow

The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.

— A. B. Yehoshua