Always believe Quote by Ron Rash

Generally I start writing when I have even the smallest idea of how a book is going to go, because the physical process of…

— Terry Pratchett

In my own work, I usually revise through forty or fifty drafts of a poem before I begin to feel content with it.

— Mary Oliver

I always write too long in the beginning, then it is a matter of going through it over and over again on subsequent drafts,…

— Chevy Stevens

I tend to write longer narrative pieces after I've finished writing a novel - when the fiction's finished and put away, and I have…

— Dinaw Mengestu

I've been writing fiction as long as I've been writing poetry. It's just that the poetry took off, and it took me a lot…

— Barbara Hamby

I'm trying to break myself of that habit [of not writing out a first draft ] because I'm working on a couple novels and…

— Donald Ray Pollock

I try to write every day until the book is done, but the exact process depends on the story and its structure. Sometimes, if…

— Nicholas Sparks

I've done as many as 20 or 30 drafts of a story. Never less than 10 or 12 drafts.

— Raymond Carver

I think a lot, so I don't spend a lot of time actually writing - I do that part very quickly. That helps, for…

— Ru Freeman

I'm a relatively disciplined writer who composes the whole book before beginning to execute and write it. Of course, you can't hold - you…

— Orhan Pamuk

I write a ridiculous number of drafts. The characters change and grow through the drafting, and my understanding of them deepens. Creating characters in…

— Robert Boswell

It can take years. With the first draft, I just write everything. With the second draft, it becomes so depressing for me, because I…

— David Sedaris