
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
—John Steinbeck


Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
—John Steinbeck



Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
—Sinclair Lewis

I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
—Alfred Hitchcock

Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
—E. L. Doctorow

And then Satan said, “Make them write a synopsis.”
…if you’ve ever self-published a book, you know what this means. Thank you, Elisabeth Wheatley.

In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy.
– Albert Einstein

The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.
– Terry Pratchett

Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down.
—John Steinbeck

Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.
—Stephen King

Any form of human creativity is a process of doing it and getting better at it. You become a writer by writing. There is no other way.
—Margaret Atwood