Natural Quote by Yann Martel

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 work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.

— Anne Enright

I like to edit my sentences as I write them. I rearrange a sentence many times before moving on to the next one. For…

— Karen Thompson Walker

I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make…

— Anthony Bourdain

I am not one of those writers that it just flows out of effortlessly. I have to sit and write and rewrite and sometimes…

— Princess Superstar

I don't really write beautifully naturally, unlike some people.

— George Saunders

“Writers write. Period. No matter how hard it is. One word after another. Sometimes the sentences spill quickly from our fingertips, and other times…

— Debra Dixon

As Flannery O'Connor says, a person can choose what she writes but she can't choose what she makes live. Some people are really acoustic…

— George Saunders

In a way I do hate the process of writing. It's like learning a role where you never think you're going to be able…

— Julie Andrews

I am not a writer except when I write.

— Juan Carlos Onetti

I love having written. Sometimes I love writing. I love to revise. Revising is my favorite part of writing.

— Gail Carson Levine

For me writing is an organic process that starts with engaging the language and then thinking about the structure of the novel as you…

— Dana Spiotta