“Writing is a kind of free fall that you then go back and edit and shape.” WritingKindFallShapesEdits Author:Allan Gurganus
“I never know when I sit down, just what I am going to write. I make no plan; it just comes, and I don't know where it comes from.” KnowsWritingPlans Author:D. H. Lawrence
“Sometimes dreams show me that my writing should go deeper. Dreams have not so much changed my work as deepened it.” ShouldWritingSometimesShowsDreamChangedDeeperShow Me Author:Anne Rice
“Dreams raise the emotional level of what I'm doing at the moment.” MomentsDreamLevelsEmotionalRaises Author:Maurice Sendak
“The necessity of the idea creates its own style. The material itself dictates how it should be written.” ShouldIdeasWrittenStyleMaterials Author:William Faulkner
“I truly think that you can't go and stalk your material, you have to leave the door open and whatever chooses you, chooses you. You can't go and wrestle it to the ground.” ThinkingDoorsMaterialsYou ChooseStalking Author:Louise Erdrich
“Read carefully, then don't read; work hard, then forget about it; know your tradition, then liberate yourself from it; learn language, then free yourself from it. Finally, know at least one form of magic.” KnowsHardFormLanguageForgetMagicHard WorkTraditionFree Yourself Author:Gary Snyder
“I feel it in me like a woman having a baby, all that life churning inside me. I feel it every day; it moves, stretches, yawns. It's getting ready to be born. It knows exactly what it is.” KnowsFeelsMovingBornReadyBabyHaving A BabyChurning Author:Maurice Sendak