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No writer has ever yet been known to hang himself as long as he had another chapter left.
When writing a novel, that’s pretty much entirely what life turns into: “House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1,500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day.”
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.
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.
If you have an idea that you genuinely think is good, don’t let some idiot talk you out of it.
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.
Keep a small can of WD-40 on your desk — away from any open flames — to remind yourself that if you don’t write daily, you will get rusty.
What I loved most about calling myself a reporter was that it gave me an excuse to show up anyplace.
Anecdotes don’t make good stories. Generally, I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not what people thought their anecdotes were about.
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
Substitute “damn” every time you’re inclined to write “very”; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
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.

























