Blog

The coolest ghostwriting blog on the planet.

Post number one. Hi there!

November 19, 2015June 6, 2026

Welcome to the Ghostwriters Central blog. This blog will be authored by me, for the time being. We do hope you will find it to be Read More...

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

Romulus Linney

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

Thomas Wolfe

My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.

Anton Chekhov

I have a structured songwriting process. I start with the music and try to come up with musical ideas, then the melody, then the hook, and the lyrics come last.

John Legend

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Arthur Balfour

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

If you start with a bang, you won’t end with a whimper.

T.S. Eliot

I’m writing a book. I’ve got the page numbers done.

Stephen Wright

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

Clarence Budington Kelland

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

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

Steven Bochco

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

Lawrence Wray

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Mickey Spillane

Work on a computer that is disconnected from the Internet.

Zadie Smith

I haven’t got 10 rules that guarantee success, though I promise I’d share them if I did. The truth is that I found success by stumbling off alone in a direction most people thought was a dead end, breaking all the 1990s shibboleths about children’s books in the process.

J.K. Rowling

To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I’m writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I’m going to play for the opening sequence.

Quentin Tarantino

The character that lasts is an ordinary guy with some extraordinary qualities.