Actually Quote by Peter Hook

In my case, the long gaps between my books have got quite a lot to do with lack of confidence. A lot of the…

— Wendy Cope

I think I've finally learned to stop worrying about how big the gaps are between my novels' publication.

— Justine Larbalestier

The longer I carry on, the more difficult writing seems to get.

— W. G. Sebald

The fiction writer in me likes gaps in stories because I can jump into that gap and try to suggest something.

— Marlon James

... it appears to me that problems, inherent in any writing, loom unduly large when one looks ahead. Though nothing is easy, little is…

— Elizabeth Bowen

I can't start writing until I have a closing line.

— Joseph Heller

Readers soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the labor of writing them is lost.

— Sarah Josepha Hale

Lots of times I'm not crazy about the writing, but I keep moving ahead and somehow it gets better. The important thing is to…

— Janet Evanovich

The two hardest things about writing are starting and not stopping.

— Stewart O'Nan

I write in a very strange way. Things are very fragmentary for a very long time, and then they come together very quickly near…

— Todd Rundgren

Well into adulthood, writing has never gotten easier. It still only ever begins badly, and there are no guarantees that this is not the…

— David Rakoff

My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: when you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip.

— Elmore Leonard