Cutting Quote by Ray Bradbury

Try to maintain the perspective that, in time, everything disintegrates and returns to its initial form.

— Richard Carlson

What is the ultimate impulse to write? Because all this is going to vanish.

— James Salter

“Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down.…

— John Steinbeck

A piece of writing is the product of a series of explosions in the mind.

— Ellen Gilchrist

Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down.…

— John Steinbeck

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

Every page must explode, whether through seriousness, profundity, turbulence, nausea, the new, the eternal, annihilating nonsense, enthusiasm for principles, or the way it is…

— Francis Picabia

I used to think it was hard to write, and I still find the process more or less unpleasant, but if I know what…

— Jonathan Franzen

The interesting part about the writing process is that you can never see all the way to the end, not if something is happening…

— Tom Perrotta

I would like to explode, flow, crumble into dust, and my disintegration would be my masterpiece.

— Emile M. Cioran

I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again.

— Leo Tolstoy

What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.

— Ursula K. Le Guin