Blank paper Quote by Neil Gaiman

“Anyone and everyone taking a writing class knows that the secret of good writing is to cut it back, pare it down, winnow, chop,…

— Nick Hornby

Short fiction isn't my natural form. It's taken a lot of work over the years to finally feel more comfortable writing stories under 80,000 words!

— Kameron Hurley

Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.

— Ivana Trump

Writing is very difficult. You have 120 pages of blank paper and it's like, "Go fill that up with some funny stuff," and that's challenging.

— Bobby Farrelly

With fiction, there’s no reason why everything you write shouldn’t be amazing. Nobody’s stopping you from making up better stuff.

— Wells Tower

Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on.

— Buddy Ebsen

What do you want? What are you willing to give up to get it? Writing requires you make sacrifices. Be prepared to work hard…

— Sandra Brown

I have lots of fiction in the drawer, but the essays I mostly kick out into the world, ready or not. Fiction incubates differently,…

— Charles D'Ambrosio

The only difficulty is to know what bits to choose and what to leave out. Novel-writing is not creation, it is selection.

— Winifred Holtby

I think it takes about a million words to make a writer. I mean that you're going to throw away.

— Jerry Pournelle

It's our job as fiction writers to provide a delight that nothing else can - to such a degree that people have no choice…

— Jennifer Egan

Some people manage their writing by saying, 'I need to get 2,000 words written today,' others by saying, 'I will write for X hours.'…

— Ramez Naam