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No writer has ever yet been known to hang himself as long as he had another chapter left.
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any.
Do not place a photograph of your favorite author on your desk, especially if the author is one of the famous ones who committed suicide.
What I loved most about calling myself a reporter was that it gave me an excuse to show up anyplace.
If you haven’t got an idea, start a story anyway. You can always throw it away, and maybe by the time you get to the fourth page you will have an idea, and you’ll only have to throw away the first three pages.
I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop.
If you have an idea that you genuinely think is good, don’t let some idiot talk you out of it.
Books aren’t written, they’re rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn’t quite done it.
In Hollywood, the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can’t read. If they could read their stuff, they’d stop writing.
Thank your readers and the critics who praise you, and then ignore them. Write for the most intelligent, wittiest, wisest audience in the universe: Write to please yourself.
Keep a small can of WD-40 on your desk — away from any open flames — to remind yourself that if you don’t write daily, you will get rusty.
I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.
Anecdotes don’t make good stories. Generally, I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not what people thought their anecdotes were about.

























