Post number one. Hi there!

19 Nov, 2015

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 useful, informative or entertaining. Or all three. --Michael McKown.

Post number one. Hi there!

November 19, 2015May 9, 2025

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...

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

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

E. B. White

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

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

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

Jodi Picoult

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

Edward Albee

Critics are people who sit on the mountaintop and look down on the battlefield. When the fighting is finished, they take it upon themselves to come down from the mountain and shoot the survivors.

Robert Altman

Work on a computer that is disconnected from the Internet.

Zadie Smith

Just don’t be boring!

Robert Liebmann

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.

Will Rogers

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

Oscar Wilde

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

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

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

Jeanette Walls

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

Read a thousand books and your words will flow like a river.

Lisa See

Reading and weeping opens the door to one’s heart, but writing and weeping opens the window to one’s soul.

M. K. Simmons

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

William Shawn

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