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November 19, 2015June 6, 2026

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Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Arthur Balfour

You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.

Jodi Picoult

The fact is, I don’t know where my ideas come from. Nor does any writer. The only real answer is to drink way too much coffee and buy yourself a desk that doesn’t collapse when you beat your head against it.

Douglas Adams

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

Dan Poynter

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

Tom Clancy

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

Joseph Conrad

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

Mickey Spillane

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.

Robert Benchley

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

If you have an idea that you genuinely think is good, don’t let some idiot talk you out of it.

Stan Lee

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

William Goldman

I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop.

Clarence Budington Kelland

A writer is a world trapped in a person.

Victor Hugo

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

Matthew Arnold

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

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

Oscar Wilde

Just don’t be boring!

Robert Liebmann

The reason 99% of all stories written are not bought by editors is very simple. Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home.

John Campbell

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