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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

Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.

Matthew Arnold

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.

Robert A. Heinlein

Just don’t be boring!

Robert Liebmann

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

It is only natural to pattern yourself after someone. But you can’t just copy someone. If you like someone’s work, the important thing is to be exposed to everything that person has been exposed to.

Bob Dylan

Socially, a journalist fits in somewhere between a whore and a bartender. But spiritually he stands beside Galileo. He knows the world is round.

Sherman Reilly Duffy

A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.

Joseph Conrad

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

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.

Gloria Steinem

Work on a computer that is disconnected from the Internet.

Zadie Smith

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Arthur Balfour

A writer is a world trapped in a person.

Victor Hugo

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

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

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

I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop.

Clarence Budington Kelland

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

Lisa See

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