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Stay true to your brand. So to speak.

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Work on a computer that is disconnected from the Internet.

Zadie Smith

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Lawrence Wray

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

Jodi Picoult

Books aren’t written, they’re rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn’t quite done it.

Michael Crichton

If you have an idea that you genuinely think is good, don’t let some idiot talk you out of it.

Stan Lee

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.

E. L. Doctorow

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

Thomas Wolfe

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.

Mark Twain

You may be able to take a break from writing, but you won’t be able to take a break from being a writer.

Stephen Leigh

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

Roald Dahl

A blank piece of paper is God’s way of telling us how hard it to be God.

Sidney Sheldon

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

C. J. Cherryh

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.

Alice Munro

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

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.

Chet Cunningham

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

William Goldman

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

Lisa See

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

T.S. Eliot

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.

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