Alive Quote by Philip Roth

My experience as a writer is that you really do write seven and eight pages to find the paragraph you were after all along.

— Anne Lamott

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

I know that sounds ineffective and daunting, but it [throw hundreds of pages away] is actually my favorite part of the writing process.

— Megan Chance

Write every day even if it is just a paragraph.

— Michael Connelly

I'm pretty disciplined to keep the momentum of a story going by writing everyday, even if it's only a couple paragraphs or a page…

— James Rollins

When I write a book, I write very cleanly from page one to the last page. I hardly ever write out of sequence.

— Gregory Maguire

You don't write a book. You write a sentence and then a paragraph and then a page and then a chapter. Looking at writing…

— Rebecca Serle

I write slowly. I can't move on until I've got a paragraph right.

— Nick Hornby

I write, fighting for every sentence, fighting to hold the reader with every paragraph.

— Hector Tobar

During my last year of college I wrote the same ten pages over and over again. Those ten pages became the first few pages…

— Patricia Briggs

Some days, you will sit down, and you write tens of thousands of words. Others, you have to force yourself to write a single…

— Sylvia Day

I go through periods of not writing. Until there's something I can't find in the world that I need, so I write.

— Daphne Gottlieb