Quote by Patricia T. O'Conner

You constantly have to take inventory, not get on someone else's agenda. You want to write something that's poignant and moves people.

— Dion DiMucci

My writing process isn't a very organized thing.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Keeping a [journal] need not be a major chore-just a few minutes of notes each day can be valuable. Writing crystallizes insights, fools the…

— Roger N. Walsh

I don't do much more than organise other people's ideas and insights and thoughts, and sort of harvest them, and inventory them and present…

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion.

— William Safire

I keep a notebook of ideas, and sometimes ideas form in your head that you just have to write down, or you'll forget them.

— Himesh Patel

My writing process isn't a very organized thing. The actual writing part is a tiny part of my life. I often write in public.…

— Chuck Palahniuk

In the course of writing a book I'll produce loads of pieces of paper to help the novel itself. Diagrams, charts, family trees. And…

— Maggie O'Farrell

I've known several cases of writers who decide to write about something and they research the hell out of it and when they're ready…

— E. L. Doctorow

I keep a journal/day planner, which really helps me stay organized and focused.

— Alyssa Milano

Writing, for me, is the great organiser. It's while writing that I think most deeply about things.

— A. A. Gill