Articles Quote by Megan McCafferty

Once I have the idea for a story. I start collecting all kinds of helpful information and storing it in three-ring notebooks. For example,…

— Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Maybe there's something new that can document an idea quicker, but pen and paper have always been pretty handy for me.

— Grant Hart

“First, you need something to organize: ideas, material, scraps of expertise, recipes, prognostications, anecdotes, scurrilous gossip, anything that might be relevant to what you…

— Patricia T. O'Conner

I have been writing stories and working on ideas for a long time. I like writing and reading a lot, so I jot down…

— Karan Wahi

I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.

— Dan Deacon

Make sure you're realistic about what you can do, but if you have a good lead with something, making the plunge into full-time writing…

— Ben Clymer

I can't make something 'useful' to me in a writing sense for a very long time. I don't have any journalistic instinct. And I…

— Tim Winton

Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.

— John Steinbeck

I just start writing, and in the process, one hopefully comes up with ideas and solutions and explores all the little nooks and crannies.

— Alastair Reynolds

What I'm doing is exploring things. This is why I'm a fiction writer rather than an essayist or a politician or whatever. I just…

— T.C. Boyle

I had a nice part at big newspapers, small newspapers, and then I went to a very big newspaper - 'The Wall Street Journal.'…

— Erik Larson

I usually make to-do lists with timelines, and pen and paper does the trick for me.

— Luis von Ahn