“I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.”
Reuters News Agency (October 10, 2005)
2007, 2008
Pt. 1: Bimini, Section 10
Islands in the Stream (1970)
“You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.”
“When you write a short story … you had better know the ending first.”
The Casebook of the Black Widowers (1980), p. 177
General sources
Context: When you write a short story... you had better know the ending first. The end of a story is only the end to the reader. To the writer, it's the beginning. If you don't know exactly where you're going every minute you're writing, you'll never get there — or anywhere.
Talks at Google - 16 Aug 2016, at 14 Min 24 Sec https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wkKtvlGykc
From Talks at Google
“The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it.”
A Review http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/jenyns.html of Soame Jenyns' A Free Enquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil, published in the first volume of Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces (London, 1774), p. 23
