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Stay true to your brand. So to speak.

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Editor: A person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Oscar Wilde

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

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

William Goldman

If you wait for inspiration to write, you’re not a writer. You’re a waiter.

Dan Poynter

The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

George Bernard Shaw

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it’s to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.

Jim Morrison

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.

Christopher Hampton

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

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

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

Roald Dahl

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.

George Singleton

Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.

Michael Burke

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

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

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

E. B. White

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.

Robert McKee

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

William Shawn

I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has just put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae or banana split.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr

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

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