Finished Quote by Paul Auster

I don't have all the facts. And I might misremember. As a matter of fact, after I finished Winter Journal, I realized that I'd…

— Paul Auster

“Most of us would rather read than write. There is always another article to read, one more source to track down, just a bit…

— Kate L. Turabian

I tend to delay writing by doing more research - it's really the act of writing the piece that I have the hardest time…

— James Surowiecki

I was not very good at newspaper reporting. I'm just not quick enough, and I always tend to tell things as stories.

— David Grann

Sometimes you don’t know what you're writing until you've finished it.

— Vu Tran

To say, "Well, I write when I really get into it" is a bunch of bull. Put the paper in the typewriter, stare at…

— Erma Bombeck

If I was going to write something, I'd need to stop for three months and just see if I had any thoughts in there.

— Mariella Frostrup

I got to write most of everything I said.

— R. Lee Ermey

I wrote about what I was going through at the time.

— Avril Lavigne

I try not to let what I read in the paper get to me. But I still read things and I think 'That didn't…

— Perrie Edwards

I always read what I write out loud, and I did that long before any radio thing. My editor finds that unusual.

— Ricky Jay

I had this bad habit of not writing out a first draft and going back. For me it was the first sentence, then the…

— Donald Ray Pollock