"The ideas will follow me. When they’re off-guard, and ready to be born, I’ll turn around and grab them." - Ray Bradbury
"A well-fed man keeps and calmly gives forth his infinitesimal portion of eternity. It sounds big in the summer night. And it is, as it always was down the ages, when there was a man with something to tell, and ones, quiet and wise, to listen." - Ray Bradbury
“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.”
—Terry Pratchett
"“When you write a story, you’re telling yourself the story,” he said. “When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are not the story.”" - Stephen King
On Writing
"We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out." - Ray Bradbury
"Still, I believe the first draft of a book—even a long one—should take no more than three months, the length of a season." - Stephen King
"Because novels come from long-marinated and unregarded anxiety, from silent anxiety…" - Martin Amis
"The situation comes first. The characters—always flat and unfeatured, to begin with—come next." - Stephen King