Long Quote by Lydia Davis

“Many contemporaries of Proust’s insisted that he wrote the way he spoke, although when Du côté de chez Swann appeared in print, they were…

— Christopher Prendergast

“Writing a story, regardless of length, always begins with a single word.”

— Don Roff

I love long sentences. My big heroes of fiction writing are Henry James and Proust - people who recognise that life doesn't consist of…

— John Burnside

“Kilmartin wrote a highly amusing and illuminating account of his experience as a Proust revisionist, which appeared in the first issue of Ben Sonnenberg's…

— Christopher Hitchens

Writing a story, regardless of length, begins always with a single word.

— Don Roff

“A writer's high doesn't come from thinking about the end result, only of the moment, one word, one sentence, one phrase at a time.”

— C.J. Heck

“Writers write. Period. No matter how hard it is. One word after another. Sometimes the sentences spill quickly from our fingertips, and other times…

— Debra Dixon

“Often, then, the stories came pouring out, and often they were set before us slowly and quietly like tea. These slow stories were told…

— Daoud Hari

At this moment, the story in his head was perfect. He also knew from experience that it would degenerate the second he started typing,…

— Sara Gruen

“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

Each story tells me how to write it, but not the one afterwards.

— Eudora Welty

I write longer sentences than most of the others, maybe because I probably like Henry James more than they do.

— Peter Straub