Henry james Quote by Peter Straub

I love long sentences. My big heroes of fiction writing are Henry James and Proust - people who recognise that life doesn't consist of…

— John Burnside

I tend to elongate the sentences as I'm writing and editing, and there is just something about the feeling of writing longhand that I…

— Lily King

I write - and then I write some more.

— Frank Delaney

I tend not to write books that are really, really long, and I'm also a pretty fast writer.

— Elizabeth Berg

I cannot write long books; I leave that for those who have nothing to say.

— Celia Green

I write in the most distressingly slow way in terms of punctuation and grammar.

— Maurice Saatchi

I write heavily under the influence of James Taylor.

— Carole King

I like how I write better than how I speak.

— Henry Rollins

I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.

— Anne Enright

The first draft of everything, I write longhand. One of the nice things about that is that it makes you keep going. If you…

— Jonathan Dee

Most writers write too much. I have the exact opposite problem. I feel I could write almost anything in a paragraph. I have a…

— Fran Lebowitz

I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make…

— Anthony Bourdain