Five Quote by Truman Capote

If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word.

— Margaret Atwood

I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even.

— Robert B. Parker

It's never perfect when I write it down the first time, or the second time, or the fifth time. But it always gets better…

— Jane Yolen

I never thought I'd write, because I'd never written anything in my whole life.

— Linda Ronstadt

“Perfectionism is the enemy of the author. There is a difference between good writing habits and perfectionism. The author who displays good writing habits…

— Gudjon Bergmann

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

— Haruki Murakami

If I had more time, I would have written less.

— Mark Twain

“An aspiring writer should write one time and edit ten times.”

— Amit Kalantri

So I thought I should write five pages a day. And that's what I did. Eventually I had a book.

— Don Winslow

I never thought I was good enough actually to write.

— Ricky Schroder

if you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you will be…

— Sarah Orne Jewett

The first five years as a writer, I didn't know how to write at all. I couldn't write my way out of a white…

— Richard Meltzer