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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

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

Work on a computer that is disconnected from the Internet.

Zadie Smith

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

Jim Morrison

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

T.S. Eliot

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

William Shawn

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

Thomas Jefferson

A writer is a world trapped in a person.

Victor Hugo

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

E. B. White

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

Mickey Spillane

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

Thomas Wolfe

The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Edward Albee

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.

Gloria Steinem

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

Tom Clancy

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

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

Stan Lee

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.