Easy Quote by Stephen Graham Jones

When you first start writing-and I think it's true for a lot of beginning writers-you're scared to death that if you don't get that…

— Toni Morrison

The first draft of everything, I write longhand. One of the nice things about that is that it makes you keep going. If you…

— Jonathan Dee

As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall…

— Candace Bushnell

I have a hard time revising sentences, because I spend an inordinate amount of time on each sentence, and the sentence before it, and…

— Chang-Rae Lee

It's fun for me to try to write concise, compact things. It's a very good exercise for me. And I think it's important to…

— William T. Vollmann

Keep your paragraphs short. Writing is visual - it catches the eye before it has a chance to catch the brain.

— William Zinsser

You should write, write, write every day, and learn to edit and pare it right back so you're proud of every sentence, and each…

— Caitlin Moran

Maybe one thing is that you have to find the best way to write whatever works better for you.

— Ann M. Martin

The first draft of everything, I write longhand. One of the nice things about that is that it makes you keep going. If you…

— Jonathan Dee

I write every paragraph four times - once to get my meaning down, once to put in anything I have left out, once to…

— Margery Allingham

Eventually the bad stuff I'm writing turns into better stuff. Other times, I've just walked away from what I was working on, and figured…

— Margaret Haddix

The secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components,

— Anonymous