About Quote by Peter Hedges

I write a ridiculous number of drafts. The characters change and grow through the drafting, and my understanding of them deepens. Creating characters in…

— Robert Boswell

Only in very rare circumstances will you see something cut out of my first drafts. Maybe it's because of the way I write. I'm…

— R. A. Salvatore

Writing is rewriting. A writer must learn to deepen characters, trim writing, intensify scenes. To fall in love with the first draft to the…

— Richard North Patterson

Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don't tell them.

— Alan Furst

When you're writing, I think a big part of writing comes out of an attempt to understand yourself. You're dealing with emotions and thoughts…

— Sheila Heti

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

— Thomas Berger

That's the moment you look for as a writer, when the characters start telling you what they are doing rather than you telling them.

— Mike Bartlett

The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves.

— Ernest Hemingway

The great thing about writing is that you always put yourself in the shoes of the character. If you're doing it right, you can…

— Peter Gould

Writing about writing is a bit like talking about a conversation you are having; it tends to obscure desperation about where the next word…

— Renata Adler

You know how sometimes you meet writers that are so full of themselves? They feel really proud that they wrote something . But what…

— Sandra Cisneros

There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.

— Joy Williams