“I wrote some three hundred pages, threw most of them out, and started over. The novel seemed to require a maturity and breadth of vision I didn't yet have. What I discovered was that this maturity and vision accrues gradually over the course of many days, months, years of struggling to be a better writer.”
John Dalton
“I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.”
James Matthew Barrie
“''Write that down,'' the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then added them up, and reduced the answer to shillings and pence.”
Lewis Carroll
“At the start, Connie wrote the Polly and Sybil roles, and she and I wrote Basil together,”
John Cleese
“It is a curious fact that innumerable readers have asked me if I wrote this story. They seem never to remember the title of the story or (for sure) the author, except for the vague thought it might be me. But, of course, they never forget the story itself, especially the ending. The idea seems to drown out everything else - and I'm satisfied that it should.”
Isaac Asimov
“There was a time when I had a radio and wrote it up for problems, and for three to four months it didn't work. If you have a problem on the bus and something goes wrong, (a radio is) your only connection to help.”
Darrell Braden
“I wrote once every two or three weeks for about a year, ... and then about a year ago, I got an e-mail.”
Lyndon Johnson
