I’m reconfiguring Ghostwriters Central. The first change was to bring Kate Jonez on board. She’s a marvelous writer, Read More...
If you haven’t got an idea, start a story anyway. You can always throw it away, and maybe by the time you get to the fourth page you will have an idea, and you’ll only have to throw away the first three pages.
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.
A true author, no matter the medium, is an artist with godlike knowledge of his subject, and the proof of his authorship is that his pages smack of authority.
Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.
Ever heard of a carpenter not going to work because he has “carpenter’s block”? If a writer can’t write, it’s because he doesn’t really want to, he isn’t ready to get it on paper or he’s just plain lazy.
I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop.
What I loved most about calling myself a reporter was that it gave me an excuse to show up anyplace.
Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
No writer has ever yet been known to hang himself as long as he had another chapter left.
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.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.

























