Approach Quote by Matt Sharp

I have trouble writing if I can't picture how things are going to look.

— Robert Kirkman

“Outlines can help, but not if you begin with them. If you begin, instead, by writing down everything, by spewing out your ideas as…

— Howard S. Becker

“A good plot is like a well-crafted puzzle. Each piece is vital to the bigger picture, connecting to each other to tell the larger…

— Janice Hardy

“Writing is like painting. You sketch it, add colour, add depth and detail. You give it a final layer and then hang it proudly.”

— Kia Carrington-Russell

Once I'm given an idea for a story I have a million ideas on how it should be illustrated, but I don't have a…

— Brian Selznick

“We fit the pieces of our life together in a pattern, but there is no image on the puzzlebox to guide us.”

— Michael Hogan

Whatever works for the piece I'm thinking about is the way I write.

— Glenn Branca

As for the story, whether the poet takes it ready made or constructs it for himself, he should first sketch its general outline, and…

— Aristotle

You get all the puzzle parts together enough to say the puzzle is complete. It's a script. In the process of realizing that, new…

— David Lynch

I write down portions, maybe fragments, and perhaps an imperfect view of what Im hoping to write. Out of that, I keep trying to…

— James Salter

“They had always fitted together like pieces of an unsolved (and perhaps unsolvable) puzzle”

— Arundhati Roy

Trying to write is very much like trying to put a Chinese puzzle together. We have a pattern in mind which we wish to…

— Helen Keller