Writing Quote by Ralph L. Wahlstrom

Novel writing, like so many things in life, is an iterative process. You come at it again and again, working at it like you…

— Kameron Hurley

The way I have progressed as a writer over the years is to try and stay true to the principles I absorbed.

— Rob Chapman

“But for the rest of us, we should be regularly reassessing why we write. When we know what we’re going for (human impact? fame?…

— Tasha Golden

I believe that every writer evolves with every successive novel. I view myself as work-in-progress.

— Ashwin Sanghi

For a true writer each book should be a new beginning, where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment.

— Ernest Hemingway

I often meet frustrated young writers who say they've only got so far and just can't finish a book. Even if you don't happen…

— Eoin Colfer

“In truly good writing no matter how many times you read it you do not know how it is done. That is beacause there…

— Ernest Hemingway

“and yet the original Writers at Work volumes, especially the first three, possessed a magic all their own. As a teenager, I virtually memorized…

— Michael Dirda

Most writers want to share their essay or book much too quickly. Those who accept the pain of hard work and revising are those…

— Lee Gutkind

Scholars look for final truths they will never find. Creative writers concern themselves with possibilities that are always there to the receptive.

— Richard Hugo

Books, like lives, are always unfinished even when they end, for to write is to struggle with contingency, to impose a certain false order…

— Mark Kingwell

A writer's problem does not change. It is always how to write truly and having found out what is true to project it in…

— Ernest Hemingway