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Stay true to your brand. So to speak.

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A writer is a world trapped in a person.

Victor Hugo

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade, just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.

Truman Capote Quote

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

Lawrence Wray

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Roald Dahl

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Dan Poynter

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

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

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

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.

Harlan Ellison

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

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any.

Orson Scott Card

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

T.S. Eliot

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

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

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

What I loved most about calling myself a reporter was that it gave me an excuse to show up anyplace.

Jeanette Walls

Do not place a photograph of your favorite author on your desk, especially if the author is one of the famous ones who committed suicide.

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