Keep it simple Quote by Tom Clancy

“Crafty writers...don't allow Exposition to form Lumps. They break up the information, grind it fine, and make it into bricks to build the story…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“It's not about being unmade; it's about remaking, one aching step at a time.”

— Anonymous

“I never write the storyline ahead of the novel and stick to it like glue. I prefer my writing to be organic. It takes…

— Airambooksie

“Only by fumbling with countless bits of knowledge, and then ignoring most of it, does a creative mind craft something original.”

— Diane Ackerman

“But we don’t really know anything at all, except how the story should go, and we make believe it’s our story, hoping everything will…

— Claire Messud

“Maybe it’s time to set aside intellectualism and experience the wonders of things that can’t be explained.”

— Jennifer Ott

“It is not up to the writer to create a masterpiece. That is what readers do.”

— Bart J. Gilbertson

“Don't think about the writing process too much. Just do one thing: tell the motherfucking story.”

— Don Roff

“The stories are not made, they are discovered.”

— Chandan Sharma

“I'm a novelist by trade and my job is to write a story rather than reconstruct actual events.”

— Sara Sheridan

“I am not ultimately interested in writing fiction. I can't make things up. Or rather, I can only make things up about things that…

— Alison Bechdel

“Creativity is a crushing chore and a glorious mystery. The work wants to be made, and it wants to be made through you.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert