Lost Quote by Paul Beatty

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

— Vu Tran

Titles are very hard. Sometimes a title comes before I start to write the book, but often I finish the book, and I still…

— Eve Bunting

The title is the first thing that I have. Then when I have that title, I have to make sure that the title...is like,…

— Melanie Martinez

I like to have a title before I start writing.

— Sue Monk Kidd

In a novel, you can always go back and make it look like you knew what you were doing all along before the thing…

— Neil Gaiman

I sometimes don't know what I'm writing when I start writing it, on some level.

— Josh Radnor

“Losing yourself in words is like finding yourself stuck in the pages. But never forget for every blank page you have the opportunity to…

— Katrina Thompson

There were points in my career where I thought, 'Maybe I'm done. Maybe I've written everything there is to write.' Now I've learned that…

— Sylvia Day

That you write a phrase or you think of something and it seems to have a deeper charge because the title has to be…

— Edward Hirsch

On the whole, I don't want to think too much about why I write what I write. If I know what I'm doing ...…

— Joan Didion

Other writers know what you're going through, what you're talking about when you write.

— Andrew Sean Greer