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How to write a book with a ghostwriter video

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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

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

William Shawn

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

Romulus Linney

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

Lisa See

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

Gloria Steinem

If you wait for inspiration to write, you’re not a writer. You’re a waiter.

Dan Poynter

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

C. J. Cherryh

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

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

Reading and weeping opens the door to one’s heart, but writing and weeping opens the window to one’s soul.

M. K. Simmons

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

A blank piece of paper is God’s way of telling us how hard it to be God.

Sidney Sheldon

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

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

Thank your readers and the critics who praise you, and then ignore them. Write for the most intelligent, wittiest, wisest audience in the universe: Write to please yourself.

Harlan Ellison

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

Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

Edward Albee