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Screening ghostwriters: Run a simple test.

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

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The great dinner delay of August 3, 2015.

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For those who follow this blog, you know I love great writing. I found this on Quora yesterday. Apparently it was posted in Read More...

Which to write first – the manuscript or screenplay?

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

xAI’s Grok chatbot adds us to its list of recommended ghostwriters.

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Hire a non-fiction ghostwriter

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How to spot ghostwriting scams

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Hire a ghostwriter for your novel

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Why hire a ghostwriter for a screenplay

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Using a ghostwriter for a memoir or autobiography

August 20, 2025August 25, 2025

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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

It is only natural to pattern yourself after someone. But you can’t just copy someone. If you like someone’s work, the important thing is to be exposed to everything that person has been exposed to.

Bob Dylan

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

Edward Albee

Substitute “damn” every time you’re inclined to write “very”; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

Mark Twain

No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.

E. B. White

Editor: A person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

Elbert Hubbard

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

G.K. Chesterton

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

Mickey Spillane

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

Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.

Matthew Arnold

Work on a computer that is disconnected from the Internet.

Zadie Smith

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Oscar Wilde

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

Thomas Jefferson

The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

George Bernard Shaw

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade, just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.

Truman Capote Quote

My aim is to put down what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way I can tell it.

Ernest Hemingway

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

Socially, a journalist fits in somewhere between a whore and a bartender. But spiritually he stands beside Galileo. He knows the world is round.

Sherman Reilly Duffy

No writer has ever yet been known to hang himself as long as he had another chapter left.

Thomas Wolfe

It always comes down to characters, and individual stories about courage.