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24 questions about ghostwriting services & ghostwriters answered

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

E. B. White

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

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

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

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

Christopher Hampton

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

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

Lawrence Wray

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

I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.

Tom Clancy

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

T.S. Eliot

Just don’t be boring!

Robert Liebmann

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

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

It always comes down to characters, and individual stories about courage.

Steven Bochco

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

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

Jeanette Walls

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

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

Robert A. Heinlein

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