Firsts Quote by Truman Capote

I've always kind of wrote when I wanted to. Once I get the idea in my head and get it outlined out, I usually…

— Amanda Hocking

When I'm putting a story together, I generally know the ending and a couple of the points halfway through, and I've got sort of…

— Alan Moore

Work extra hard on the beginning of your story, so it snares reader's instantly. And know how you're going to end your story before…

— Joan Lowery Nixon

Each story tells me how to write it, but not the one afterwards.

— Eudora Welty

I write in a pretty straightforward way. I kind of sit down at page one and start writing.

— Zack Snyder

Usually I decide on what it is I'm writing next by the books I'm reading.

— Kate Mosse

I'm pretty disciplined to keep the momentum of a story going by writing everyday, even if it's only a couple paragraphs or a page…

— James Rollins

I go on writing so that I will always have something to read.

— Jeanette Winterson

I begin by writing paragraphs that don’t have an immediate relation to a plot. The sound of the story comes first.

— Grace Paley

I make extensive outlines before I write a book. I usually know what will happen. I know the characters, and I know what they…

— Amor Towles

My experience as a writer is that you really do write seven and eight pages to find the paragraph you were after all along.

— Anne Lamott

I start with an idea that is no more than a paragraph long, and expand it slowly into an outline. But I'm always surprised…

— Barry Schwartz