There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it’s like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.
― Ernest Hemingway
Quotes
E.L. Doctorow
Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
– E.L. Doctorow
David Wong
The English language needs a word for that feeling you get when you badly need help, but there is no one you can call because you’re not popular enough to have friends, not rich enough to have employees, and not powerful enough to have lackeys. It is a very distinct cocktail of impotence, loneliness and a sudden stark assessment of your non-worth to society. Enturdment?
– David Wong, This Book is Full of Spiders
Terry Pratchett
Writing a novel is as if you are going off on a journey across a valley. The valley is full of mist, but you can see the top of a tree here and the top of another tree over there. And with any luck you can see the other side of the valley. But you cannot see down into the mist. Nevertheless, you head for the first tree.