Anxious Quote by Susan Sontag

I don't write a word of the article until I have the lead. It just sets the whole tone - the whole point of…

— Nora Ephron

If I had been asked to write 1,200 words for a newspaper tomorrow, on any subject, I would just do it rather than leave…

— Tom Stoppard

If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get it right once.

— Tana French

As a writer, putting words on the page is how I pay attention.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I often have to write a hundred pages or more before there's a paragraph that's alive.

— Philip Roth

“Keeping this journal causes tension as much as it calms it. The writing busies my hands and occupies my mind, but there’s something about…

— Wayne Gladstone

When you go back and look at what people say about my essays, they're always going, 'What is this?' Because they're not exactly like…

— John Ralston Saul

“But once your basic story is on paper, you need to think about what it means and enrich your following drafts with your conclusions.”

— Stephen King

“A writer's high doesn't come from thinking about the end result, only of the moment, one word, one sentence, one phrase at a time.”

— C.J. Heck

Don't deliver an essay with so many points. No one can absorb it. Just say one thing... Of course, you can say the point…

— Winston Churchill

Ultimately, whether we are writing posts, paragraphs, essays, arguments, memoirs, monographs or even just the Great American Tweet, writing is and should be a…

— Constance Hale

As a journalist you have to think quickly, you're exposed to all types of people and situations and you've got to synthesize your thoughts…

— Frank Spotnitz