Bits Quote by Walter Mosley

If you try to write 1,000 words a day, as I do, after 100 days you'll look up and have a book. It may…

— Justin Cronin

When I get started each day, I read through and correct the previous day's 2,000 words, then start on the next. As I reach…

— Neal Asher

I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a short story.…

— Eric Brown

When I write a book, I write very cleanly from page one to the last page. I hardly ever write out of sequence.

— Gregory Maguire

I write very quickly; I rewrite very slowly. It takes me nearly as long to rewrite a book as it does to get the…

— John Irving

I figure 1000 words a day, or four pages, and sometimes I'll write more, but I'll try not to. Because I think you don't…

— Carolyn See

I rewrite my books until they're mostly memorized so that's a lot of rewrites, a lot of time spent with my stories.

— Jacqueline Woodson

I write very quickly; I rewrite very slowly. It takes me nearly as long to rewrite a book as it does to get the…

— John Irving

I write in a journal first, briefly. Then read something I've read many times before, for about half an hour, then rework what I…

— Kent Haruf

I edit as I write. I revise endlessly. I don't go forward until I know that what I've written is as good as I…

— Anita Shreve

I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know.

— Jean M. Auel

When I write a novel I start each morning by reading for 20 minutes.

— Richard Ford