Courses Quote by Tom Perrotta

The writing process is very much like being in a dark tunnel, and you don't really know what you will end up with until…

— Emily Haines

There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.

— Joy Williams

I write in a very strange way. Things are very fragmentary for a very long time, and then they come together very quickly near…

— Todd Rundgren

Writing is always a process of discovery—I never know the end, or even the events on the next page, until they happen. There’s a…

— Kim Edwards

I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would…

— A. E. van Vogt

I have long since decided if you wait for the perfect time to write, you'll never write. There is no time that isn't flawed…

— Margaret Atwood

As a writer, I write to see. If I knew how it would end, I wouldn't write. It's a process of discovery.

— John McGahern

The writing process, it's too mysterious to try and describe.

— Mick Jones

I see my writing as the process of looking at the usual, but from two steps to the side.

— Katherine Dunn

Writers know that sometimes things are there in the drawer for decades before they finally come out and you are capable of writing about…

— Gunter Grass

We all have time to write. We have time to write the minute we are willing to write badly, to chase a dead end,…

— Julia Cameron

A piece of writing takes exactly as long as it needs to be done right.

— Norma Fox Mazer