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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.

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

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

Christopher Hampton

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

Jodi Picoult

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

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Arthur Balfour

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

Stephen King

I write the last line, and then I write the line before that. I find myself writing backwards for a while, until I have a solid sense of how that ending sounds and feels. You have to know what your voice sounds like at the end of the story, because it tells you how to sound when you begin.

John Irving

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it’s to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.

Jim Morrison

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

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

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

Edward Albee

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

Tom Clancy

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

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

Raymond Chandler

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

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

Michael Burke

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

Thomas Wolfe

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

There are three primal urges in human beings: Food, sex, and rewriting someone else’s play.