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Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.

Edward Albee

The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Michael Burke

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

My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.

Anton Chekhov

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

G.K. Chesterton

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

Matthew Arnold

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

Clarence Budington Kelland

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

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

Plot is, I think, the good writer’s last resort and the dullard’s first choice.

Stephen King

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

The character that lasts is an ordinary guy with some extraordinary qualities.

Raymond Chandler

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Arthur Balfour

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

Dan Poynter

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

William Goldman

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

C. J. Cherryh

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.

Will Rogers

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