Chapters Quote by Lynda Barry

When you first start writing-and I think it's true for a lot of beginning writers-you're scared to death that if you don't get that…

— Toni Morrison

If one waits for the right time to come before writing, the right time never comes.

— James Russell Lowell

I have long since decided if you wait for the perfect time to write, you'll never write. There is no time that isn't flawed…

— Margaret Atwood

Many writers-in-waiting spend a lot of time avoiding the work at hand. The most common way to avoid writing is by procrastination. This is…

— Walter Mosley

It doesn't take long to write things of which you know nothing. When you write of actual things, it takes longer, because you have…

— Betty Smith

If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.

— Anne Tyler

No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written

— Alice Hoffman

Sometimes you don’t know what you're writing until you've finished it.

— Vu Tran

Writing is a journey of discovery because until you start, you never know what will happen, and you can be surprised by what you…

— Mini Grey

Writing is always a process of discovery—I never know the end, or even the events on the next page, until they happen. There’s a…

— Kim Edwards

The interesting part about the writing process is that you can never see all the way to the end, not if something is happening…

— Tom Perrotta

Usually, I would mistrust a book if it took that long to write. Usually, if it isn't done in two years, I suspect there's…

— John Burnside