Behinds Quote by Peter Schjeldahl

I used to live on a barge - it is incredibly good to write near water. There is an ever-changing landscape, so you never…

— Simon Beaufoy

Writing is pretty flexible work, don't you think? If you want to surf, you just have to get a lot done when the waves…

— William Finnegan

The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not write a…

— J. K. Rowling

I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a short story.…

— Eric Brown

My sweet spot as a writer and, especially, as an essayist is sub-1500 words.

— Mary H.K. Choi

I write four or five a books a year. That means that I usually have one on the go. I am fortunate in being…

— Alexander McCall Smith

I feel like I could write a thousand books about the outdoors and natural history and the landscape.

— Steven Rinella

If I have an idea, I write it down, although I usually carry a little dictation machine with me because I'm too lazy to…

— Tommy Shaw

I write incredibly slowly. And, on top of that, I spent my entire youth and twenties working like a dog, so one of the…

— Junot Diaz

I figure 1000 words a day, or four pages, and sometimes I'll write more, but I'll try not to. Because I think you don't…

— Carolyn See

The problem is to find the time to write. That's why I go to sea. I couldn't be happier than when at sea.

— Alex Haley

“All of us possess a reading vocabulary as big as a lake but draw from a writing vocabulary as small as a pond. The…

— Roy Peter Clark