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Ding! Going down? An astonishing description of the World Trade Center collapse.

June 2, 2026June 3, 2026

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Mr. & Mrs. Vintage Typewriters, Bremerton, WA.

May 31, 2026June 3, 2026

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A.I. writing and publishing: Busted!

May 20, 2026June 13, 2026

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Why independent thinking matters to writers.

March 13, 2026June 3, 2026

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How desktop publishing put a Linotronic Imagesetter in my office.

March 12, 2026June 3, 2026

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The late-night drunk caller.

March 11, 2026June 3, 2026

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Screening ghostwriters: Run a simple test.

December 27, 2025June 3, 2026

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How a professor caught students cheating by writing with A.I.

November 20, 2025June 3, 2026

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The great dinner delay of August 3, 2015.

October 2, 2025June 3, 2026

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Which to write first – the manuscript or screenplay?

September 3, 2025October 9, 2025

Write the manuscript first, or the screenplay? By- Michael McKown Co-founder & president, Ghostwriters Central, Inc. Book or Read More...

The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

George Bernard Shaw

I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.

Tom Clancy

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.

Harlan Ellison

Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.

Edward Albee

It’s an accepted fact that all writers are crazy; even the normal ones are weird.

William Goldman

What I loved most about calling myself a reporter was that it gave me an excuse to show up anyplace.

Jeanette Walls

Don’t annoy an author, you’ll end up in their book and you won’t look good.

Lawrence Wray

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

G.K. Chesterton

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.

Gloria Steinem

The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book.

Mickey Spillane

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Arthur Balfour

If you wait for inspiration to write, you’re not a writer. You’re a waiter.

Dan Poynter

You may be able to take a break from writing, but you won’t be able to take a break from being a writer.

Stephen Leigh

If the sex scene doesn’t make you want to do it — whatever it is they’re doing — it hasn’t been written right.

Sloan Wilson

A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.

Joseph Conrad

Every writer with half a brain knows to surround himself or herself with editors who are smarter, far more articulate and infinitely better looking.

Chris Claremont

Stories are never too long or too short. They’re too interesting or too boring.

William Shawn

There are three primal urges in human beings: Food, sex, and rewriting someone else’s play.

Romulus Linney

I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.

Roald Dahl

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.