Construction Quote by Lucy Hughes-Hallett

You don't write a book. You write a sentence and then a paragraph and then a page and then a chapter. Looking at writing…

— Rebecca Serle

I think all writing is done through memory

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

When the writing is good and it suits your character, you don't have to memorize anything, because it just makes sense. You read it…

— Amy Hill

In the camp, this meant committing my verse-many thousands of lines-to memory. To help me with this I improvised decimal counting beads and, in…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

After I finish writing a chapter, I'll print it out, cut it up into paragraphs, and cut away any transition sentences. Then I shuffle…

— Erik Larson

Memory is never complete. There are always parts of it that time has amputated. Writing is a way of retrieving them, of bringing the…

— Nawal El Saadawi

To write, I think it is very important to read. The more you read, the more you know the techniques of writing.

— Sudha Murty

I can read a four-page scene once and have it memorized. It's a skill you learn in school: disposable cramming.

— Blake Lively

You know that something is really well written when you have to think so little about the words that are coming out of your…

— Tom Weston-Jones

The more fiction you read and write, the more you'll find your paragraphs forming on their own.

— Stephen King

Keep your paragraphs short. Writing is visual - it catches the eye before it has a chance to catch the brain.

— William Zinsser

Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you…

— Walter Jon Williams