Different Quote by Lee Ranaldo

The more prose I wrote, the more the pendulum swung back toward the middle, merging some poetic sensibilities with the more fundamental elements of…

— Alex Lemon

Wherever groups disclosed themselves, or could be introduced, simplicity crystallized out of comparative chaos.

— Eric Temple Bell

All of my books have an internal geometric shape, and once I've seen the shape, then the writing gets much faster and easier because…

— Diana Gabaldon

For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo.

— Nicholson Baker

“Tools that provide simple ways of creating groups lead to new groups, [...] and not just more groups but more kinds of groups.”

— Clay Shirky

I seem to be drawn to these smaller forms, and I seem to be drawn to things that can be written and also read…

— Jenny Zhang

Writing is a particular kind of frustration, which is why when I was making the structure for the novel I visualized it for myself…

— Rebecca Miller

I think when there's so much information to be eaten up, and so many ways to do it, people cling to groups. I think…

— Kristen Bell

Structure is, for me, the most fun challenge about writing novels.

— Heidi Julavits

Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a…

— Francoise Sagan

Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different.

— Robert Anton Wilson