Pages Quote by Sarah Dessen

An ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led up to it, it would always…

— Sarah Dessen

A lot of first novels are written long before they're actually put down on paper.

— Roger Ebert

“If writers stopped writing about what happened to them, then there would be a lot of empty pages.”

— Elaine Liner

But stories somehow lengthen when begun.

— Lord Byron

My experience as a writer is that you really do write seven and eight pages to find the paragraph you were after all along.

— Anne Lamott

Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.

— Colum McCann

I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden.

— Leo Ornstein

I can still remember the miraculous feeling of writing a sentence, then more sentences, telling a story. The first thing I wrote was a…

— Henning Mankell

My novel, which I had started with such hope shortly after publishing my first book of stories, wouldn't budge past the 75-page mark. Nothing…

— Junot Diaz

Writers know that sometimes things are there in the drawer for decades before they finally come out and you are capable of writing about…

— Gunter Grass

Especially once those poetry events began, because, yeah, the stuff was still on the page, but the page was starting to spill into real…

— Vito Acconci

The writing process is not just putting down one page after another-it's a lot of writing and then rewriting, restructuring the story, changing the…

— Rebecca Stead