Awful Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

My stories take three or four months to fix, and it's not magical of a process. Ultimately it's a boring, difficult process. I write…

— Kumail Nanjiani

And telling a story, I suppose, is like winding a skein of spun yarn- you sometimes lose track of the beginning.

— Edith Pattou

Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it.

— Don Roff

The writing of the script is a continual process. There's the first draft and then many, many re-writes here and there.

— Abdellatif Kechiche

“When your story is written on a piece of paper and that paper gets crumpled up and thrown into a shredder, you can piece…

— Ker Dukey

“One thing writers have in common is the need to procrastinate. People don't really understand this, but it's not avoiding work, it is work.…

— Steven T. Seagle

Stuff starts to feel stale comedically when you're just rehashing things, so putting together a writers' room where the majority is made up of…

— Nahnatchka Khan

When you learn about stories in school, you get it backward. You start to think 'Oh, the reason these things are in stories is…

— Lynda Barry

Writing the opening lines of a story is a bit like starting to ski at the steepest part of a hill. You must have…

— Marion Dane Bauer

Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears.

— Kurt Vonnegut

I lose patience with long stories. I get people who go, "Crumb, do some long stories, do a graphic novel." Novel-schmovel.

— Robert Crumb