Tan Einsenberg Moore

I am never happy with any manuscript I have ever turned in. What counts for me is if I’m not mortified by what gets published. Even in the final book, there will be errors, and it just kills me that they’ll be there until the reprint; hopefully I’m alive when that happens. On the other hand, if I kept a book until I thought it was perfect, it would never be published.AMY TAN

When I’ve finished writing something, I seem to have dispatched whatever the stimulus was, and I’ve forgotten it utterly—it’s no longer available to me and it’s no longer of interest to me.
DEBORAH EISENBERG

I feel somewhat at a loss, aimless and foolishly sentimental, and disconnected, when I’ve finished one work and haven’t yet become absorbed in another.
MARIANNE MOORE