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Welcome to the Ghostwriters Central blog. This blog will be authored by me, for the time being. We do hope you will find it to be useful, informative or entertaining. Or all three. –Michael McKown.

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

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

Raymond Chandler

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

Every writer with half a brain knows to surround himself or herself with editors who are smarter, far more articulate and infinitely better looking.

Chris Claremont

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

Jeanette Walls

The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Critics are people who sit on the mountaintop and look down on the battlefield. When the fighting is finished, they take it upon themselves to come down from the mountain and shoot the survivors.

Robert Altman

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

Mickey Spillane

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

No writer has ever yet been known to hang himself as long as he had another chapter left.

Thomas Wolfe

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Work on a computer that is disconnected from the Internet.

Zadie Smith

If you have an idea that you genuinely think is good, don’t let some idiot talk you out of it.

Stan Lee

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Arthur Balfour

Books aren’t written, they’re rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn’t quite done it.

Michael Crichton

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

Ever heard of a carpenter not going to work because he has “carpenter’s block”? If a writer can’t write, it’s because he doesn’t really want to, he isn’t ready to get it on paper or he’s just plain lazy.

Chet Cunningham

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