Artistry Quote by Terry Tempest Williams

If you don't think there is magic in writing, you probably won't write anything magical.

— Terry Brooks

“This leads me to the Higher Editing. Take of well-ground Indian Ink as much as suffices and a camel-hair brush proportionate to the inter-spaces…

— Rudyard Kipling

Pencil in your plans but write your visions in ink

— Andy Stanley

I have rewritten — often several times — every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers.

— Vladimir Nabokov

“I was dissatisfied with my 1967 manuscript and decided to rewrite the book. It was the first of September, and I said to myself,…

— Oliver Sacks

All of my days, With my favorite, Number two pencil, I have created, Drawings, Odes, Silly tales, Wonderful, And endless experiences. When my pencil,…

— Eric Nickel

“You know your heart and soul are stapled to that manuscript, but what we see are the words on the paper”

— Teresa Nielsen Haydense

“The letters from the ink in my pen are an absurd map of magic signs.”

— Fernando Pessoa

Perhaps nothing is more magical then the book. Paper, glue and some words and you are taken away from where you sit, stand, dance,…

— Obert Skye

“When you read a manuscript that has been damaged by water, fire, light or just the passing of the years, your eye needs to…

— Diane Setterfield

For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make…

— James M. Barrie

Generally, I don't pencil, especially with the autobiographical comics, although I've usually planed out composition in my head during the scripting stage. I like…

— Jeffrey Brown