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If you haven’t got an idea, start a story anyway. You can always throw it away, and maybe by the time you get to the fourth page you will have an idea, and you’ll only have to throw away the first three pages.

William C. Gault

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

T.S. Eliot

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Arthur Balfour

The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book.

Mickey Spillane

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

Jodi Picoult

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

William Shawn

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

Lisa See

My aim is to put down what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way I can tell it.

Ernest Hemingway

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

The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Robert A. Heinlein

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

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

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

C. J. Cherryh

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

The fact is, I don’t know where my ideas come from. Nor does any writer. The only real answer is to drink way too much coffee and buy yourself a desk that doesn’t collapse when you beat your head against it.

Douglas Adams

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

William Goldman

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

Joseph Conrad

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.

Roddy Doyle

Work on a computer that is disconnected from the Internet.