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...

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

Joseph Conrad

It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil, trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does.

William Faulkner

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

Roald Dahl

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

A writer is a world trapped in a person.

Victor Hugo

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

Edward Albee

The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

George Bernard Shaw

It is perfectly okay to write garbage — as long as you edit brilliantly.

C. J. Cherryh

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

Thomas Wolfe

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

Clarence Budington Kelland

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

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

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

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.

Raymond Chandler

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

Steven Bochco

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

Mickey Spillane

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

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

T.S. Eliot

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