Another year Quote by Michael Helm

Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you…

— Walter Jon Williams

If I write too much of anything for too long, I burn out on it. So it helps to vary my output from year…

— Charles Stross

If I spend a year and a half writing a script, the first year will be outlining in notebooks. It's just the way I…

— Rian Johnson

I think one of the reasons I'm so thrilled with writing is because it is an act of reading for me at the same…

— Toni Morrison

I read what I write over and over and make corrections and improvements, until I reach the conclusion that the material deserves to stand…

— Siegfried Lenz

Although I like the work I've done in the past, I like what I'm writing now even more.

— Cynthia Weil

I reckon I can count on 30 more writing years, averaging a book a year (I can't keep up the 2-2.5 a year I…

— Charles Stross

I write pretty much year-round, but I definitely do more when a deadline is looming.

— Jason Isbell

I keep an elaborate calendar for my characters detailing on which dates everything happens. Im constantly revising this as I go along. It gives…

— Maria Semple

So when I started writing my own stuff, it was with a lot of combinations and time changes and power.

— Steve Harris

I write in a journal first, briefly. Then read something I've read many times before, for about half an hour, then rework what I…

— Kent Haruf

To write three series a year you only need to commit to writing 10 pages per day, or editing 50 pages of text per…

— Victoria Laurie