Four Quote by Margery Allingham

I write a book at least three times-once to understand it, the second time to improve the prose, and a third to compel it…

— Bernard Malamud

I write a sentence a thousand times, changing it all the time to look at it in different ways.

— Fran Lebowitz

I write, fighting for every sentence, fighting to hold the reader with every paragraph.

— Hector Tobar

Now the writing in the head, I definitely do every day, thinking about how I want to phrase something or how I'd like to…

— Stanley Crouch

Some days, you will sit down, and you write tens of thousands of words. Others, you have to force yourself to write a single…

— Sylvia Day

It's easy, at this point in my life, very easy to write a beautiful sentence that's meaningless. A lot of writers do that. But…

— Lynne Tillman

I am not a particularly natural writer. I am not a person who can write in paragraphs the way some writers do. For me,…

— Yann Martel

I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then I type…

— Paul Auster

A lot of times, I write and have to scrap it. You don't know what I'm talking about because the words are too much,…

— Earl Sweatshirt

I sit down and I write what I'm thinking and what I feel - it happens all at once, I never stop writing.

— Lydia Hearst

I write a lot, and then forget what I've written, and then come back to it and say, "Not bad, I should do something…

— Allison Joseph

I never leave a sentence or a paragraph until I'm satisfied with it

— Clifford Geertz