Character Quote by Ron Rash

Only in very rare circumstances will you see something cut out of my first drafts. Maybe it's because of the way I write. I'm…

— R. A. Salvatore

When I start, I have a feeling for the characters, and maybe the shape of the story. Sometimes I might even have the last…

— Paul Auster

So much of writing is about what characters don't say, and in the early drafts, sometimes things get overwritten.

— Peter Hedges

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

When you're writing, I think a big part of writing comes out of an attempt to understand yourself. You're dealing with emotions and thoughts…

— Sheila Heti

I like to think the endings of all my books are open to interpretation.

— Jane Green

I've often made revisions at that stage that turned out to be mistakes because I wasn't really in the rhythm of the story anymore.…

— Alice Munro

It's often the case that the most strained moments in books are the very beginning and the very end - the getting in and…

— Robert Gottlieb

Though I revise constantly as I write, I will usually revise much of the work again after I've reached the ending.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Reading the final copy of my book was like walking down memory lane all over again. Sure, the writing process was emotional, but when…

— Gigi Gorgeous

“I write well-fleshed out characters, and inevitably, more ideas spring from my subconscious. They all have a little bit of me in them. It’s…

— Faye Kellerman

Lots of times I'm not crazy about the writing, but I keep moving ahead and somehow it gets better. The important thing is to…

— Janet Evanovich