Alter Quote by Ruggero Leoncavallo

I've always kind of wrote when I wanted to. Once I get the idea in my head and get it outlined out, I usually…

— Amanda Hocking

I write down portions, maybe fragments, and perhaps an imperfect view of what Im hoping to write. Out of that, I keep trying to…

— James Salter

In order to execute the idea, you need a certain material that is going to allow you to do what you're challenged to do…

— Michelle Stuart

Once you find the right idea, then go ahead and embellish it.

— Vincente Minnelli

The only kind of writing is rewriting.

— Ernest Hemingway

My writing is a process of rewriting, of going back and changing and filling in. in the rewriting process you discover what's going on,…

— Joan Didion

Writing for me is largely about rewriting.

— Khaled Hosseini

The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.

— Thomas Mann

You just have to keep getting out of your own way so that whatever it is that wants to be written can use you…

— Anne Lamott

Never stop writing because you have run out of ideas. Fill the lacunae of inspiration by tidily copying out what is already written.

— Walter Benjamin

If there's an idea I think is really good and I feel like I can write it, then I'll do it.

— Matt Damon

Writing is rewriting what you have rewritten.

— Paul Engle