Clay Quote by Terry Tempest Williams

The first draft of a story is the writer's clay.

— Bruce Coville

For a sculptor, a painter, a weaver, a potter, the dialogue between one's materials and what one makes from them is easy to see:…

— Andrea Barrett

I had a teacher in art school who said something about the only works he really enjoyed seeing or found much in were works…

— Martin Mull

Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Writing is the act of discovery.

— Natalie Goldberg

Discovery still happens in the writing. You start in nonfiction with a whole lot more going for you, because all the discovery isn't waiting…

— Joan Didion

You have to get something down, and then find ways of working in complexity and different layers of meaning... My first drafts are usually…

— Peter Wolf

Whether or not you're writing fiction or you're making sculptures. You're trying to create a space. You're trying to make something where your own…

— Denison Witmer

SOON was the first novel where I used a rough outline. Usually I have characters and an idea and write as a process of…

— Jerry B. Jenkins

Just start scribbling. The first draft is never your last draft. Nothing you write is by accident.

— Guy Garvey

Whatever the style is, I want to have a sense that the writer is thinking, and really trying to get at something, and that…

— Lynne Tillman

When I'm sculpting, I work with wood and clay, and though some say that an image is already in the material and the sculptor…

— Julie Taymor