“I don't write from dreams because I don't remember mine, but I had a fragment of an image left about twins, whose father was telling them how their lives were going to go for the next eight years. I wrote a scene about that, and then another and then another and then another, and after five months I had 732 pages.” WritingYearsDreamRememberNextFatherLeftFiveMinesMonthsScenePagesEightTwinsFragments Author:Tamora Pierce
“I will probably write an hour a day and spend eight hours a day biting my knuckle and worrying about not writing.” WritingHoursWorryEightBitingKnuckles Author:David Foster Wallace
“When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.” WritingYearsPlayWould BeSchoolTypeComputerEightPlaywright Author:Gabrielle Zevin
“Writing books isn't a drastic departure from writing for the stage. I've always written in the long format, five, eight, 10-minute pieces rather than one-liners, so since writing books, the process hasn't changed much. A piece in my live routine can end up as part of one of my HBO specials, and it can also end up in one of the books.” WritingLongBookEndsProcessFivePiecesWrittenMinutesStageChangedEightRoutineWriting A BookDepartureFormatOne LinerHboDrastic Author:George Carlin
“Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied with three.” WritingThreeHoursSixPagesEightSatisfiedAgony Author:Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings