Beginning Quote by Nicole Ari Parker

The only way to get anything out of a writer's brains is to leave him or her alone until he or she is damn…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Those rituals of getting ready to write produce a kind of trance state.

— John Barth

I'm getting ready to write a piece now, and it's been six months thinking about it, changing the instrumentation, changing the name, doing more…

— John Zorn

Enough time had passed that I was ready to write the book Hungry. Was it absolutely difficult? Completely. I had to go back and…

— Crystal Renn

To be honest, I don't know. I started one [book] back in 1982 or '83 when I first retired. But I was only 25…

— Sugar Ray Leonard

By the time I sit down ready to write, I've done a lot of longhand and a lot of note collecting along the way.

— Jill McCorkle

A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences.

— Tom Robbins

I think, with age, you learn that it comes in bursts and you've got no control over it. I'm not one of those people…

— Paul Weller

Much of the activity we think of as writing is, actually, getting ready to write.

— Gail Godwin

Now that I'm experiencing motherhood, I'm ready to write the next chapter of my family story. Of course a few jaded folks in the…

— Nia Vardalos

There are so many ready to write (poor fools!) for the honor and glory of the thing, and there are so many ready to…

— Fanny Fern

When you get ready to write your novel, outline it first. There's nothing worse than getting halfway through and realizing you've painted yourself in…

— Janet Evanovich