Quote by Stephen King

I write to find out what the story means to me, that is what I try to do especially with the first draft.

— Wally Lamb

“A writer writes. There are no exceptions to this reality. No excuses. Stop wasting time talking about your stories and get them on paper.”

— Christy Hall

When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.

— Pat Barker

“*The story,* I like to say and remember, *is always smarter than you* - there will be patterns of theme, image,e and idea that…

— Tin House Books

“Being a writer is an amazing job, but we’re all writers, most of us just forget to put our stories down on paper.”

— Colette Freedman

“Writing is an act of discovery in which you peel back the layers of the story as you write it down.”

— Matt Forbeck

“Journal writing is, foremost, a way to order and reframe perspective.”

— Alexandra Johnson

First drafts are for learning what your story is about.

— Bernard Malamud

“Get your story written, you always have the second and third draft to fix things like tense, 1st vs 3rd person, the exact right…

— Andromeda Edison

“...There is no such thing as a story. The words on paper are only instructions used by each reader to create a story. The…

— Damon Knight

I read what I write over and over and make corrections and improvements, until I reach the conclusion that the material deserves to stand…

— Siegfried Lenz

Ultimately, writing is about trusting your own mind. It is an act of discovery.

— Natalie Goldberg